Famous Quotes & Sayings

Donald Barthelme

The death of God left the angels in a strange position.

Donald Barthelme

The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.

Donald Tusk

Im plain incapable of getting angry with Angela Merkel and likewise.

Dylan Thomas

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

Dylan Thomas

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

Dolly Parton

I'm no angel if that's what you thought you found. I was just the victim of a man that let me down.

Desmond Morris

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Desmond Morris

We may prefer to think of ourselves as fallen angels, but in reality we are rising apes.

Della Reese

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

Della Reese

I could not have made it this far had there not been angels along the way.

Debbie Macomber

God gave the Angels wings and humans chocolate. Mrs. Miracle

Anderson Cooper

Did you know that according to legend, the guy who became Buddha decided to seek enlightenment the day he got a touch of gray? "Gray hairs," the would-be Buddha said, "are like angels sent by the god of death".

Andrew Peterson

Hey, angel, your horns are sticking up.

Andre Gide

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

Anais Nin

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Anais Nin

I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman.

Chuck Palahniuk

Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

We are each other’s angels, we meet when it is time.

Christopher McDougall

We say the rarajipari is the game of life, ' Angel said. 'You never know how hard it will be. You never know when it will end. You can't control it. You can only adjust.

Christopher Moore

Angels are just pretty insects.

Christopher Moore

The Angel Gabriel disappeared once for sixty years and they found him on earth hiding in the body of a man named Miles Davis.

Clive Barker

Angels have very nasty tempers. Especially when they’re feeling righteous.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers.

Anna Lee

Yes, I'm a great believer in angels.

Anne Sexton

O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.

Anne Rice

I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.

Anne Rice

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

Andrew Cuomo

He was the keynote speaker for our better angels.

Ambrose Bierce

GUNPOWDER, n. An agency employed by civilized nations for the settlement of disputes which might become troublesome if left unadjusted. By most writers the invention of gunpowder is ascribed to the Chinese, but not upon very convincing evidence. Milton says it was invented by the devil to dispel angels with, and this opinion seems to derive some support from the scarcity of angels.

Anthony Horowitz

Statues lined the stairs and stood, dotted across the roof. But they had been brutalized by time and the weather. Some were missing arms. Many had no faces. Once they had been saints and angels. Two hundred years standing in London had turned them into cripples.

Jane Badler

I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards... he hardly said two words to me all day.

I was appointed by Governor Gray Davis to the Los Angeles Superior Court and by President Obama to the district court and then the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In securing the state court appointment, I think it really helped that I had some trial experience.

Chuck Zito

I'm in California a lot; I go overseas sometimes and I meet more Hells Angels than other Angels do.