Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Blair

The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-us'd ghost, Not to return; or if it did, its visits Like those of angels, short, and far between.

Robert Blair

Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.

Rita Dove

When we are touched by something it's as if we're being brushed by an angel's wings.

Thomas Paine

Everything wonderful in appearance has been ascribed to angels, to devils, or to saints. Everything ancient has some legendary tale annexed to it. The common operations of nature have not escaped their practice of corrupting everything.

Russell Sherman

Without silence there is no music. Not simply because the faculty of hearing deteriorates from constant exposure to noise, but because silence is both the majestic frame and the stable solution for musical (and poetic) ideas. Silence is the soda water, the bracing ether, the bridge and mode of respect for receiving instructions from the angel.

Ronald Firbank

There was a pause - just long enough for an angel to pass, flying slowly.

Rumi

We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

What are you gonna do, angel face? Stab me with your eyebrow pencil?

Solon

Angels are winged with God's power.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

Rudyard Kipling

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.

Stephen Crane

Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.

Viktor E. Frankl

The angels are lost in perpetual contemplation of an infinite glory.

Val Guest

I wrote Murder at the Windmill. And it was accepted and we made it and it was the first film I made with Danny Angel, well the only film I actually made... I made a lot of it at the Windmill itself.

Susanna Clarke

Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.

Thomas Merton

I will not fear, for you are ever with me and you will never leave me to face my perils alone.

Thomas Carlyle

When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!...

Tony Kushner

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

Tony Evans

As created beings, angels are not to be worshipped, glorified, or adored in and of themselves. The angels were created to worship, glorify, adore, and obey God.

Tommy Lasorda

The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they're looking down on the Dodgers.

Tom Waits

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

Shahrukh Khan

I've told Kamal Haasan, Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah, Nana Patekar, I just want to touch you. They are the gods of acting. When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Shahrukh Khan

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

Ralph Cudworth

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

Tennessee Williams

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

Tennessee Williams

Kill off all my demons and my angels might die too.

James Patterson

Time to die. -Evil Angel

James Patterson

Gazzy: "Just Ten?" Angel: "No." Gazzy: "Five?" Angel: "No.

James Patterson

I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth

James Patterson

It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time," Gazzy said. "I felt like the Blue Angels!" "Yeah, except the blue Angels are an extremely well funded, well equipped, well trained, well fed, and no doubt squeaky-clean group of crack navy pilots," I said. "And we're a bunch of unfunded, unequipped, semitrained, not nearly well fed enough, and filthy mongrel avian-human hybrids. But other than that, it's exactly the same.

James Patterson

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us.

James Patterson

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.