Blades Quotes - Page 2

• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

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• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• The fulness of the godhead dwelt in every blade of grass.

  Elias Hicks

  Grass, Blades Of Grass

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• In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Creativity, Play

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.138

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• Shuttered like a fan no-one suspects your shoulder blades of wings.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wings, Fans, Shoulders

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• Full emergency power to the engines. Ram the Blade ship.

  Katherine Applegate

  Ships, Rams, Emergencies

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• If You Want To Rebel Against Society, Don’t Dull The Blade

  Ian MacKaye

  Rebel, Dull, Want

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• One! two! and through and through The vorpal blade went snickersnack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back.

  Lewis Carroll

  Two, Left

  'Through the Looking-Glass' (1872) ch. 1

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• The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

  Henry Miller

  Motivational, Beauty, Gratitude

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• There seemed to be some heavenly support beneath his shoulder blades that lifted his feet from the ground in ecstatic suspension, as if he secretly enjoyed the ability to fly but was walking as a compromise to convention.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Feet, Support, Compromise

  Zelda Fitzgerald (2013). “Save Me the Waltz: A Novel”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

  John Calvin

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Nature

  "The Value of Convenience: Genealogy of Technical Culture". Book by Thomas F. Tierney (p. 128), 1993.

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• I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

  Brion James

  Stars, Mean, Play

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• Every blade of grass has its Angel that bends over it and whispers, "Grow, grow." - The Talmud

  Sapphire

  Angel, Grass, Grows

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• We Indians do not teach that there is only one god. We know that everything has power, including the most inanimate, inconsequential things. Stones have power. A blade of grass has power. Trees and clouds and all our relatives in the insect and animal world have power. We believe we must respect that power by acknowledging it's presence. By honoring the power of the spirits in that way, it becomes our power as well. It protects us.

  Russell Means

  Believe, Animal, Power

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• I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.

  Oksana Baiul

  Edmonton, Use, Boots

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• It's a nice visual. I had just done Blade and I put on more weight for Blade and I thought I might as well use it so I kept it and added a little more. I wanted him to be a big bear.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Nice, Use, Done

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• I think the future stopped looking American when you think back to Blade Runner and Neuromancer, when it started to look more Japanese.

  Iain Banks

  Thinking, Blade Runner, Looks

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• And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.

  Jonathan Swift

  Country, Agriculture, Race

  Gulliver's Travels "A Voyage to Brobdingnag" ch. 7 (1726)

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• But the community knew Blade, and everybody but us was shocked at the box office, and subsequently the DVD. That was the beginning of the DVD revolution, and Blade was just like wildfire.

  Avi Arad

  Dvds, Office, Community

  Interview With Ken P., www.ign.com. February 10, 2004.

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• I would like to see a fierce Fantasia mixed with Blade Runner, Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars all in one. That's the kind of movies I want to make.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Stars, War, Blade Runner

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• Blade Runner appears regularly, two or three times a year in various shapes and forms of science fiction. It set the pace for what is essentially urban science fiction, urban future and it's why I've never re-visited that area because I feel I've done it.

  Ridley Scott

  Science, Two, Years

  "Exclusive Print Interview with Sir Ridley Scott for Gladiator". Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. September 13, 2005.

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• Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation's tears in shoulder blades.

  Boris Pasternak

  Running, Sweet, Night

  LIFE magazine, June 13, 1960.

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• I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.

  Joe Flanigan

  Blade Runner, Fans, Fiction

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• The blade must past threw the fire, else it breaks.

  Margaret Weis

  Past, Fire, Break

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• Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

  Sally Jenkins

  Running, Knives, Want

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