Blake Farenthold Quotes

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I came to Congress hoping to change the world; I now hope to be able to leave with my dignity.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

I can't really change Nashville.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste Shall others continue, but never complete. For none upon earth can achieve his scheme; The best as the worst are futile here: We wake at the self-same point of the dream, All is here begun, and finished elsewhere.