Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelley Armstrong

You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.

Kelley Armstrong

Demon, angel, all the same thing if you go back far enough, or cut deep enough.

Jimmy Page

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

Jimmy Page

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'

Madeleine L'Engle

poets are born knowing the language of angels

Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

There's no denying that Caruso came with a voice?that Beethoven came with music in his soul, Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib.You're born with it.

Louisa May Alcott

Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?" "Fly at me again. I rather liked it," said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight.

John Fletcher

Our acts our angels are, for good or ill, our fatal shadows that walk by us still.

John Fowles

Medieval theologians used to dispute how the angels in the heaven spent their time, when not balancing on needle points and singing anthems to the Lord. I know. They slump glued to their clouds, glasses at the ready, as the Archangel Micheal (that well-known slasher) and stonewalling St Peter open against the Devils XI. It could not be Heaven, otherwise.

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Edward Taylor

It's food too fine for angels, yet come, take and eat thy fill!

Edward Taylor

Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.

Edward Albee

You want to dance with me, angel tits?

Holly Black

But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you are? No good or evil, no black and white, no inner demons or angels whispering the right answers in our ears like it's some cosmic SAT test. Just us, hour by hour, minute by minute, day by day,making the best choices we can. The thought is horrifying. If that's true, then there's no right choice. There's only choice.

Holly Black

Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels.

Hermann Hesse

You wouldn't consider all the bipeds you pass on the street human beings simply because they walk upright and carry their young in their bellies nine months! It is obvious how many of them are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how many are ants, how many are fish or sheep, worms or angels, how contains the possibility of becoming human, partially even by learning to make himself conscious of them; only in this respect are these possibilities his.

Henry Vaughan

Dear, harmless age! the short, swift span Where weeping Virtue parts with man; Where love without lust dwells, and bends What way we please without self-ends. An age of mysteries! which he Must live that would God's face see Which angels guard, and with it play, Angels! which foul men drive away.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Music is the language spoken by angels.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

John Jewel

Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

John Henry Newman

Somehow I am necessary for God's purpose, as necessary in my place as an archangel in his.

John Donne

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call and invite God and his angels thither...

John Donne

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow your trumpets, angels.

John Donne

So in a voice, so in a shapeless flame, Angels affect us often.

John Donne

God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.

John Donne

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

John Milton

Hear all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers.

John Denham

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

John Calvin

Whether each of the faithful has a particular angel assigned him for his defense, I cannot venture certainly to affirm; not one angel only has the care of every one of us, but that all the angels together with one consent watch over our salvation....