Paul Blackwell quotes

  • There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.

  • The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.

  • I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

  • No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

  • As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

  • Moral improvement (or perfecting) require an evolution leading to a higher consciousness, which is the true torch of life; it is what we have failed too much to appreciate, and that which would be fatal to fail to appreciate any longer ("pluslongtemps", Fr.); For if we do not take it upon ourselves to remedy in time to the moral colapse (or bankruptcy) that already threaten, the whole civilisation will risks to disappear.

  • There is something frightful in being required to enjoy and appreciate all masterpieces; to read with equal relish Milton, and Dante, and Calderon, and Goethe, and Homer, and Scott, and Voltaire, and Wordsworth, and Cervantes, and Molière, and Swift.

  • We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.

  • All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

  • You and I are just like a blade of grass sitting here; we are going to wither and die. "But the word of the Lord endures forever"