You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion ’tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
Richard Blackmore
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
Richard Blackmore
We will never be authentically angry or authentically fair while we are trying to be both at once.
Ray Blanton
Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.
Ray Blanton
When the truth changes from your speaking, you know you have told the truth.
Ray Blanton
I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it – tastefully, of course.
Rachel Bilson
You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
Rachel Bilson
My next adventure will be being in a car with Mischa at the wheel.
Rachel Bilson
That’s a rule in the business. No tongue. You can’t really get into it, otherwise, it’s weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.
Rachel Bilson
You’ve got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it’s lame when people act as if they’re better than everyone!
Rachel Bilson
It’s great playing someone who is not like me at all. I’m really a nice girl, so it’s fun to be a bitch, then come home and be myself again. When I meet people now, they’re surprised that I’m a good person.
Rachel Bilson
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley’s GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
Rachel Bilson
The more aware a man is of a woman’s body, the better. He needs to know he has to tend to a woman. She might not always return the favor, but a man always has to tend to a woman first.
Rachel Bilson
When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
Rachel Bilson
Y’know what? This is what I go by: It doesn’t matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that’s what would win me over. So, yeah.
Rachel Bilson
A few years ago I was at a party and this guy threw me over his shoulder, ran across the street, put me in his car, and stuck his tongue in my mouth.
Rachel Bilson
Right now, I’m worth a million dollars, and I owe Uncle Sam a million-and-a-half dollars, and I made a deal with him. I said, ‘Uncle Sam, I’m going to pay you 25 grand a month.’
Robert Blake
The majority of information I gave police was about my wife and her family, which is what they wanted.
Robert Blake
I’m a human being, I’m not a machine. I’m 72. I’m dyslexic.
Robert Blake
What are they going to do to me that they haven’t done already? They took away my entire past. They took away my entire future. What’s left for them to take?
Robert Blake
I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.
Robert Blake
Don’t give it to the audience; leave it to the audience.
Robert Blake
I came to the conclusion that the very best thing for Rosie, from the time she was 2 weeks old, was for us to get married.
Robert Blake
I firmly believe that the best way to stimulate our economy and create jobs is to let hard-working Americans keep more of their money – after all, the money belongs to them, not to Washington.
Rob Bishop
Space exploration and experimentation are critically valuable to our nation. I know of no better way to honor those seven who sacrificed their lives than to recommit ourselves to defend and enhance America’s important strategies in space.
Rob Bishop
The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It’s a callous political game.
Rob Bishop
I am strongly pro-life, and have fought to protect the rights of the unborn my entire career. I will continue to fight for this cause because I value the sanctity of all human life.
Rob Bishop
When I was 20, I didn’t give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.
Ritchie Blackmore
Jimi… He was the gov’nor and that’s it. He was brilliant, wasn’t he?
Ritchie Blackmore
Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He’s very underrated.
Ritchie Blackmore
Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.
Ritchie Blackmore
Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He’s overrated.
Ritchie Blackmore
When something is not good, it’s bad. Period.
Ritchie Blackmore
If you can play well in the studio, you can play well on stage.
Ritchie Blackmore
But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.
Ritchie Blackmore
Everything I do is usually totally spontaneous.
Ritchie Blackmore
I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.
Ritchie Blackmore
Playing a Fender is an art itself. They’re always going out of tune.
Ritchie Blackmore
Session work makes you more strict. You can’t hit notes all over the place. You’ve got to make each one really count.
Ritchie Blackmore
When you’ve toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you’re always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
Ritchie Blackmore
Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that’s what caught everybody’s attention. As a player, he didn’t do anything amazing.
Ritchie Blackmore
The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore
What’s the point of re-releasing an album? The original sounded good, why change something about it?
Ritchie Blackmore
I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he’s pure showbusiness.
Ritchie Blackmore
The only way you can get good, unless you’re a genius, is to copy. That’s the best thing. Just steal.
Ritchie Blackmore
Those record companies don’t know what’s happening at all.
Ritchie Blackmore
I’m very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock – though only if it’s sophisticated and has some thought behind it.
Ritchie Blackmore
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.
Richard Parks Bland
Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.
Richard Parks Bland
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
Richard Parks Bland
Now, mark it. This may be strong language, but heed it. The people mean it, and, my friends of the Eastern Democracy, we bid farewell when you do that thing.
Richard Parks Bland
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
Richard Parks Bland
The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
Richard Parks Bland
Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.
Richard Parks Bland
Are you to give up the fight and let this vast body of our wealth go to ruin? I do not believe it.
Richard Parks Bland
I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.
Richard Parks Bland
I make a prediction here and now, and, my friends, I want you to watch the proceedings of Congress in these coming weeks of this extra session, or of the next regular session, to see whether I am right or not.
Richard Parks Bland
The last fight for the white metal is to be made here in this country and in this House, my friends.
Richard Parks Bland
We invite, then, the world to come with its silver and make the exchange.
Richard Parks Bland
We know well enough that if we repeal this law and give nothing for it, the people of this country will regard it as a total demonetization of silver, which it will be, so far as this Congress is concerned, without any question.
Richard Parks Bland
Any political party that undertakes to do it will, in God’s name, be trampled, as it ought to be trampled, into the dust of condemnation, now and in the future.
Richard Parks Bland
The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters.
Rachel Blanchard
Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
Rachel Blanchard
I think it’s more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
Rachel Blanchard
I hope they don’t reveal everything they know about me.
Raymond Berry
The most prepared are the most dedicated.
Raymond Berry
I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
Raymond Berry
There is no magic. There is no secret. You need your sleep. A lot of our society tries to get by, but the truth is it is up to each individual to get their optimal sleep amount. If you get less than that you can get by temporarily, but it’s only temporary.
Richard Berry
If I told you the words, you wouldn’t believe them anyway.
Richard Berry
April 23rd, 2012 
