Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Connolly

Through the 13th century, paintings of Angels exhibit a predominantly masculine appearance. Over the next 300 years, their images become more delicate, gentle, and feminine, until Angels are shown as androgynous or even distinctly female.

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.

Clive Barker

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

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.

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.

Alyssa Milano

I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.

Allen West

The future does not belong to those who attack our Embassies and Consulates and kill our Ambassadors. The Angel of Death in the form of an American Bald Eagle will visit you and wreak havoc and destruction upon your existence

The fact that we got that goal a minute later is what did it. If we didn't get that right back, this could have been different. It's like we had angels up there looking down that we did.

Alexander MacLaren

To pursue joy is to lose it. The only way to get it is to follow steadily the path of duty, without thinking of joy, and then, like sheep, it comes most surely unsought, and we 'being in the way,' the angel of God, bright-haired joy, is sure to meet us.

Alexander Pope

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

Alexander Pope

Ambition first sprung from your blest abodes: the glorious fault of angels and of gods.

Alexander Pope

Nay, fly to altars; there they'll talk you dead; For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Drew Barrymore

I remember being on film sets when I was younger, and only men got to do the cool action movies. So I thought, 'Maybe I'll get to produce one day and get to do cool stuff too,' which is what happened when we did 'Charlie's Angels.' Starting my production company was a big turning point for me.

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.