Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martha Beck

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Maria Callas

I will not be sued! I have the voice of an angel!

Maria Callas

I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not a devil, either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.

Oswald Chambers

Angels cannot preach the gospel, only beings such as Paul and you and I can preach the gospel.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I didn't really like doing commercials. You had to behave like you were on angel dust or something.

Princess Margaret

I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either.

George H. W. Bush

The fact is prosperity has a purpose. It's to allow us to pursue "the better angels," to give us time to think and grow.

Harold B. Lee

How glorious and near to the angels is youth that is clean. This youth has joy unspeakable here and eternal happiness hereafter. Sexual purity is youth's most precious possession. It is the foundation of all righteousness.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Angels, pixies, faerie dust Treading love and living lust.

George Herbert

Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.

George Herbert

Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

Nathan Fillion

My first Comic-Con was when I first met Joss Whedon: He introduced me to that world and I'd never been to a convention before that. He and a bunch of the 'Buffy' and 'Angel' writers were all going down in a big van and he invited me along.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

Kathy Mattea

Love travels the miles upon the wings of Angels.

Kristan Higgins

Stop smiling. Every time you smile, an angel dies.

Kevin Rose

The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.

Margaret Atwood

Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.

Mark Twain

I don't speak German well but several experts have assured me that I write it like an angel. Maybe so, maybe so- I don't know. I've not yet made any acquaintances among the angels. That comes later, whenever it please the Deity. I'm not in any hurry.

Mark Twain

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

Al Leiter

I call her an angel and a saint and I'll say that as long as she's around. She worked so hard to bring us up right.

Nicolas Berggruen

I don't mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.

Ciara Bravo

I do live in a couple of worlds. My home is in Kentucky. I fly out to Los Angeles when I'm working.

Hunter S. Thompson

In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

Honore de Balzac

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the spirits everything speaks.

Honore de Balzac

Those sweetly smiling angels with pensive looks, innocent faces, and cash-boxes for hearts.

Honore de Balzac

Woman is closer to angels than man because she knows how to mingle an infinite tenderness with the most absolute compassion.

E. B. White

He also consults with the Los Angeles Unified (School) District, which is a gigantic school district - larger than ours.

John Dryden

He raised a mortal to the skies; / She drew an angel down.

Thomas Gray

He passed the flaming bounds of space and time: / The living throne, the sapphire-blaze, / Where angels tremble while they gaze, / He saw; but blasted with excess of light, / Closed his eyes in endless night.

James Hillman

The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.

James Hillman

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us....

James Earl Jones

In our resolve to build a better world... we seek to summon what Abraham Lincoln called the better angels of our nature.