The Blacklist Quotes

#1. I can't tell you how good it is to go from 'Homeland' to be lucky enough to find 'The Blacklist' at the right time. It literally came at the very end of pilot season when I thought there was nothing left.

Diego Klattenhoff

#2. The blacklist was a time of evil ... no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil ... [Looking] back on this time ... it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.

Dalton Trumbo

#3. The stuff that I've been doing lately is political. It's not always about people who are super famous movie stars. The fact that people are still taking a chance and listening to the blacklist episodes is really exciting.

Karina Longworth

#4. I'm so happy with 'The Blacklist.' Give me more people to shoot and throw them off buildings.

Diego Klattenhoff

#5. 'The Blacklist' was really right place, right time. I read the script and met with Jon Bokenkamp, John Eisendrath, John Fox and John Davis, and we just hit it off. They understood that I was not so much trying to adapt to television, but adapt a cinematic style to the things that we were gonna do.

Joe Carnahan

#6. We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

Langston Hughes

#7. When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don't know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. 'Spartacus' helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.

Kirk Douglas

#8. L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling was recorded on tape making racist comments. He now has been banned from the league for life. Great, just where Sterling wanted to end up - the blacklist.

Jimmy Fallon

#9. If 'The Blacklist' taught me anything, it was kind of open-ended intrigue and leaving questions unanswered. Creating this kind of mystery by virtue of depriving the audience of these easy answers was what I was kind of into.

Joe Carnahan

#10. To my knowledge, there is no blacklist. But there is a mindset, even among liberal producers, that says 'He may be difficult, so let's avoid him.'

Ed Asner

#11. Everyone comes into a relationship with baggage. How do you make it work when the baggage you're bringing with you was given to you by the person you're hoping to have a relationship with?

Sylvia Day

#12. My onstage persona really is a persona, you know, and really the moment I step onstage, it kind of kicks into gear.

Karen O

#13. If you've got a blacklist, I want to be on it.

Billy Bragg

#14. A group of people you know who are in your whitelist or your blacklist can intertwine when you have a deep understanding to adapt to each individual's stereotype and they would all eventually accept of who you are.

Saaif Alam

#15. There is no point in me worrying about what Bloomberg or Badillo will do.

David Dinkins

#16. She's like a Dalek with a blacklist. Absolutely relentless.

Ashley Poston

#17. This requires a lifetime of divine therapy: having our minds and hearts transformed by God's Word.

Michael S. Horton

#18. Antiquity breached mortality with myths.
Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates
A cornice on the Third National Bank.

Allen Tate

#19. You're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but Earl Blackwell finally died, and I was on his blacklist every year for being the worst dressed person.

Meryl Streep

#20. Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

Nathaniel Culverwell

#21. In life, as in chess, it is always better to analyze one's motives and intentions.

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

Francis Parkman

#23. Not everyone has to have children. If everyone had two or three, we'd run out of room.

Clare Balding

#24. Yes, I see that you are behaving like a prince but that doesn't mean you won't behave like a devil at the first opportunity.

Deborah Harkness

#25. Of course I couldn't have her. No one could. It was impossible to trap a beam of sunlight. The only thing you could do was enjoy the warmth for as long as it lasted.

Cari Quinn

#26. Not a single person I named hadn't already been named at least a half-dozen times and wasn't already on he blacklist.

Edward Dmytryk

#27. There's always some kind of blacklist throughout history. But the difference is, in America they usually let you live.

Rip Torn

#28. The night is dark, the waters deep,
Yet soft the billows roll;
Alas! at every breeze I weep
The storm is in my soul.

Helen Maria Williams

#29. My hope is that that person will come forward that can win the presidency that we can all get behind.

Rick Perry

#30. Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.

Anne M. Mulcahy

#31. Sleep is harder to reach and thinner, and sleeping is no longer the Drop into the black pit all oblivion until the alarm clock, no, sleep is thin and fitful and full of memories and reminders and the dark is never dark enough.

Doris Lessing