Quotes
Authors
Robert Blair
"Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society." --
Source : Robert Blair, Robert Anderson (1802). “The Poetical Works of Robert Blair: Containing The Grave, Etc., to which is Prefixed, A Life of the Author, by Robert Anderson, Accompanied by Prints, Designed and Engraved by W. Gardiner”, p.8
Robert Blair
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“I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.”
“We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being.”
“Perhaps when we die our names are takenfrom us by a divine magnet and are freeto flutter here and there within the bodies of birds.I'll be a simple crowwho can reach the top of Antelope Butte.(From: Hard Times)”
“For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.”
“When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.”
“An author must learn the principles of good storytelling only in order to write better from the heart.”
Source : Uri Shulevitz (1997). “Writing with Pictures: How to Write and Illustrate Children's Books”
“The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.”
Source : John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.48, Harper Collins
“So I just came out here to Los Angeles with a bunch of buddies I had gone to film school with. You know, for better or worse, we just tried to slug it out here.”
Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.