Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pico Iyer

Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's seen The Killing Fields on-screen, and the newcomer from Cambodia thinks he knows LA because he's seen City of Angels on video.

Pope John XXIII

An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of an angel who protects and prays for me.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Earth has one angel less and heaven one more, since yesterday.

Mother Teresa

How many times we have picked up in the streets human beings who had been living like animals and were longing to die like angels!

Mother Teresa

I remember I picked up a person from the street who was nearly eaten up with maggots, and he said, I have lived like an animal, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.

Julie Andrews

The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

Judith McNaught

Did he happen to select a color too?" "Blue." "Blue?" Victoria burst out, prepared to do physical battle for white. Madame nodded, her finger thoughtfully pressed to her lips, her own hand plunked upon her waist. "Yes, blue. Ice blue. He said you are glorious in that color-'a titian-haired angel,' he said" Victoria abruptly decided ice blue was a lovely color to be married in.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Solon

Angels are winged with God's power.

Stephen Rea

Angel was the first Irish feature film. Neil's first movie and my first movie.

Stephen Spender

History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.

Robert Bloomfield

The lessons of prudence have charms, And slighted, may lead to distress; But the man whom benevolence warms Is an angel who lives but to bless.

William Friedkin

The leaders of the Catholic Church endorsed The Exorcist ; virtually promoted it as much as they could. The Cardinals of New York and Los Angeles and Chicago and the other big cities, all over the world, they endorsed it because it represents a literal depiction of the Roman ritual of exorcism which still exists in the Catholic faith. It's still there. The power of faith to drive out demons. And this film showed that and they embraced it.

The King incident was a spontaneous reaction to a middle-of-the-night situation. I think Rampart is worse, ... Official Negligence: How Rodney King and the Riots Changed Los Angeles and the LAPD.

Jason Lee

The Los Angeles County district attorney's office has been made aware of the investigation.

Paulo Coelho

A Warrior knows that an angel and a devil are both competing for his sword hand. The devil says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The angel says: "You will weaken. You will not know exactly when. You are afraid." The Warrior is surprised. Both the angel and the devil have said the same thing. The devil continues: "Let me help you." And the angel says: "I will help you." At that moment the Warrior understands the difference. The words may be the same but these two allies are completely different. And he chooses the angel's hand.

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.

Jerry Reinsdorf

The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.

Neale Donald Walsch

I have sent you nothing but angels

Richard Rohr

One is struck in the study of saints, angels and gods by a pattern that seems quaint and harmless. Yet, it is so common that I know there must be a deeper meaning. There always seem to be guardians and spirits of doors, bridges, exits and entranceways.

Paulo Coelho

Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.

Mortimer Adler

Angels are able to know and understand better than the human intellect can, precisely because such knowledge and understanding comes to them by way of ideas infused in them by God....

Mortimer Adler

Angels are not merely forms of extraterrestrial intelligence. They are forms of extra-cosmic intelligence.

Misha Collins

I've never done too much inquiry into angels.

Philip Sidney

**Did you realize how much a kiss says, Philip???** Oh My Angel I doooo....A KISS is the beginning of, middle to, and end of most things I love about life....

Philip Roth

There are no uncontaminated angels

Philip Guston

I go to the studio everyday because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?

Lisa Kleypas

He looked like a fallen angel, replete with all the dangerous male beauty that Lucifer could devise.

Jose Saramago

Men are angels born without wings, nothing could be nicer than to be born without wings and to make them grow.

Jorge Luis Borges

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

Joni Mitchell

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

Joni Mitchell

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.