Quentin Blake Quotes

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. ~ Quentin Blake

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs. ~ Quentin Blake

I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about. ~ Quentin Blake

I don't wait for inspiration. I'm not, in fact, quite sure what inspiration is, but I'm sure that if it is going to turn up, my having started work is the precondition of its arrival. ~ Quentin Blake

I don't think there's an illustrator who's as good as a Titian or a Rembrandt ... but then, Rembrandt was a bit of an illustrator on the quiet, you know? ~ Quentin Blake

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss. ~ Quentin Blake

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success. ~ Quentin Blake

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it. ~ Quentin Blake

I thought that if I couldn't make a living as an artist, at least I shouldn't starve.

By the time I had finished these studies, I had realized that I simply did not draw well enough to be the kind of artist and illustrator that I wanted to be, and so for two days a week over two years I drew - and drew and drew - from the models in the life classes at Chelsea School of Art. I really found out how people looked and moved and balanced, and though nowadays I almost never use a sketchbook and just make everything up as I go along, it's those days in the life room that are the back of it all. ~ Quentin Blake

I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something. ~ Quentin Blake

If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself. ~ Quentin Blake

I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour. ~ Quentin Blake

Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity. ~ Quentin Blake

Eat an apple,sing a song,
Don't touch a snake as it wriggles along.
Run for an hour, walk for a day,
Hark to the birds and heed what they say. ~ Joan Aiken

I don't feel as if I belong to an age group. ~ Quentin Blake

As an illustrator you need to understand the human body - but having looked at and understood nature, you must develop an ability to look away and capture the balance between what you've seen and what you imagine. ~ Quentin Blake

I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments. ~ Quentin Blake

Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry. ~ Quentin Blake

I have an assistant who's very good at email, so I don't struggle with it. ~ Quentin Blake

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly. ~ Quentin Blake

Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet. ~ Quentin Blake

I do like children, but only as people. Not as if they're a special category. ~ Quentin Blake

It was an accident of circumstance that I never married. ~ Quentin Blake

Being positive may be a character defect of mine. ~ Quentin Blake

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture. ~ Quentin Blake

I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously. ~ Quentin Blake

My mom had this inate ability. Whatever town my mother moved to, the second she walked into town, she would instantly attract the alpha loser of that town. This guy was not a good guy. This guy was half O.J. Simpson and half O.J. Simpson. Scott Peterson sprinkles on the top, a side of Robert Blake. You know, not a good guy. ~ Christopher Titus

If you trap the moment before it's ripe, The tears of repentence you'll certainly wipe; But if once you let the ripe moment go You can never wipe off the tears of woe. ~ William Blake

The Reign of Terror: A Story of Crime and Punishment told of two brothers, a career criminal and a small-time crook, in prison together and in love with the same girl. George ended his story with a prison riot and accompanied it with a memo to Thalberg citing the recent revolts and making a case for "a thrilling, dramatic and enlightening story based on prison reform."

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Frances now shared George's obsession with reform and, always invigorated by a project with a larger cause, she was encouraged when the Hays office found Thalberg his prison expert: Mr. P. W. Garrett, the general secretary of the National Society of Penal Information. Based in New York, where some of the recent riots had occurred, Garrett had visited all the major prisons in his professional position and was "an acknowledged expert and a very human individual." He agreed to come to California to work with Frances for several weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas for a total of kr 4,470.62 plus expenses. Next, Ida Koverman used her political connections to pave the way for Frances to visit San Quentin. Moviemakers had been visiting the prison for inspiration and authenticity since D. W. Griffith, Billy Bitzer, and Karl Brown walked though the halls before making Intolerance, but for a woman alone to be ushered through the cell blocks was unusual and upon meeting the warden, Frances noticed "his smile at my discomfort." Warden James Hoolihan started testing her right away by inviting ~ Cari Beauchamp

She'd been with Blake for over an hour. It felt like minutes. ~ Debra Anastasia

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings! ~ William Blake

Since what God had to say to me was the meat that fed my identity, I viewed what everyone else had to say as side dishes and desserts. ~ Blake K. Healy

They haven't been unhappy these last few years, quite the opposite. But it's been a long, long time since she felt that sense of giddy love that effervesces in the pit of your stomach and spectacularly upends the world. ~ Blake Crouch

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Everyone seems to know more than I do, and being on the shallow end of the information pool is starting to piss me off. ~ Kendare Blake

Sam and me- star-crossed and still entangled up on a hill overlooking the city. On top of the world. I almost laugh at how ridiculous it is. How silly it is that we found each other, that we grounded each other, that we gave each other a sense of freedom and a home. ~ Ashley Herring Blake

The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres. ~ William Blake

The problem with love is this: It dies. And when it does, you die with it. ~ Apollo Blake

And we're not lost."
We are so fucking lost. Literally adrift in the nothing space between universes. ~ Blake Crouch

Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that.
Marsellus Wallace ~ Quentin Tarantino

Being loved by Blake isn't something you can describe. You just feel it settle into your bones, taking shelter in your heart.
She leaves an imprint on your life.
She makes you want to be a better person. ~ Briana Pacheco

If you never take risks in life, you'll never see anything new ~ Blake Lewis

You would have PTSD too if someone took a cattle prod to your dick." Tag's eyes widened. "Holy sit, Ten. I take back everything I've ever said about you. You're a motherfucking hero. You were abo to perform after that? Yeah, she tried to be quiet, but that bed squeaks. Seriously, every man alive should salute you. Can I see it?" "No you can't see it," Faith shot back. "What is wrong with you?"
"Why are we looking at junk? Has Ten finally come out of the closet?" Sean joined his brother. Tag shook his head. "Nah. Part of his torture was a cattle prod to the cock." "Whoa," Sean said. "Can I look?" "Told you. ~ Lexi Blake

It's nice to get invited to the parties and to be able to hobnob and celebrate a job well done with your colleagues. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I could probably make more money if I did more commercial projects. ~ Blake Lively

And of course,Addie."
What did he mean by that-"of course, Addie?" Did he mean "Of course you remember this airheaded chick who attacked the mayor with cardboard and had to be bailed out of jail?" That's not what really happened,but how was I supposed to know what he remembered of the incident? ~ Tristi Pinkston

What the internet has done is destroy film criticism. I would never have guessed that the profession of film criticism would be going the way of the dodo bird. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Don't always be appraising yourself, wondering if you are better or worse than other writers. "I will not Reason and Compare," said Blake; "my business is to Create." Besides, since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of Time, you are incomparable. ~ Brenda Ueland

I know you loved her, but it's okay to let it go now. You know that, don't you? You've got to be able to let it go. ~ Nicholas Sparks

As but a swift glance is enough to catch the glory of a great landscape, or only a little lingering is necessary to observe many peculiar beauties in it, so but a brief turn of the mind to sublime thoughts will give us their light and power. ~ James Vila Blake

To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way. ~ William Blake

I love 'Gossip Girl.' I used to hang out with Blake Lively and Jessica Szohr. I'm also addicted to Bravo and reality shows like 'Top Chef.' ~ Jessica Stroup

Pigs are filthy animals. I don't eat filthy animals. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Each man is haunted until his humanity awakens. ~ William Blake

How sweet I roamed from field to field, And tasted all the summer's pride, Till I the prince of love beheld, Who in the sunny beams did glide! ~ William Blake

I like if you're reading something, and they're saying something you always thought, but they're putting it in the exact right way ~ Blake Nelson

Grind until you get it no matter what the haters say and never look back, keep striving cause its your life. ~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh. ~ William Blake

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad. ~ Blake Griffin

Today someone asked me if that old stereotype about hot-headed Italians is true. I answered this way: About 2,000 years ago, there was a guy running around hollering about peace & love ... and we nailed his ass to a cross! (Hope that answers your fuckin' question!) ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

I thought of several alec smart remarks, but you should humor crazy people when you're at their mercy; it's a rule. ~ Laurell K. Hamilton

A rising tide of desire threatened to swamp her like a tidal wave, washing away fear and doubt and leaving behind it the knowledge that in her topsy turvy life, she was certain of only one thing: she wanted this man, right now, and she'd deal with the consequences later....
"I want to make love to you," he said, his voice low and thrumming through her veins as if it were a music only she could hear. ~ Deborah Blake

When you start dating another country star, the first question is, 'When are y'all gonna do a duet?' And what sucks about that is people expect you to do it whether you want to or not. ~ Blake Shelton

I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue. ~ Quentin Tarantino