
“But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything”
In his Nobel Prize Banquet Speech http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1952/bloch-speech.html, December 10, 1952.
“But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything”
Private notes, quoted in Herbert Butterfield, ‘Acton: His Training, Methods and Intellectual System’, in A. O. Sarkissian (ed.), Studies in Diplomatic History and Historiography in honour of G. P. Gooch, C.H. (1961), p. 195
Undated
“Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine,
And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.”
As reported by Heraclides, son of Sarapion, and Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, "Pythagoras", Sect. 7, in the translation of C. D. Yonge (1853)
Source: Défense des Lettres [In Defense of Letters] (1937), p. 42
Also attributed to Chester Bennington (singer of Linkin Park)
“To draw, you must close your eyes and sing”
“I would ask you all to be on your guard against the enemy within.”
There are those who would stop at nothing to injure our economy and our defence. The price of liberty is still eternal vigilance. I know what a fine part the trade unionists of this country have played in our recovery effort. When they are asked to take unofficial action, which may hurt this country, let them just consider carefully whether the motives of those who ask them to strike are really concerned with the interests of the workers.
Broadcast (30 July 1950), quoted in The Times (31 July 1950), p. 4
Prime Minister
Balsamo the Magician (or The Memoirs of a Physician) by Alex. Dumas (1891)