Avalon Quotes

• A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Lying, Doe, Priestesses

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.660, Ballantine Books

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• There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Faces, Truth Is, Tales

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Mother, Ancient, Goddess

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• When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.

  Barry Levinson

  Break Up, Thinking, Ideas

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2000.

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• Love is the only prayer I know.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Prayer, Love Is, Knows

  "The Mists of Avalon". Book by Marion Zimmer Bradley, 1983.

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• And so, perhaps, the truth winds somewhere between the road to Glastonbury, Isle of the Priests, and the road to Avalon, lost forever in the mists of the Summer Sea.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Summer, Wind, Sea

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.11, Ballantine Books

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• I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

  Frankie Avalon

  Years, Two, Musician

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think todays music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that.

  Frankie Avalon

  Mean, Thinking, Today

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• They weren't great pictures, but they were fun, and they really represented that period of time well.

  Frankie Avalon

  Fun, Periods, Wells

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Never name the well from which you will not drink.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Names, Drink, Wells

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• Yes, but I don't think of the Teen Angel as of an age.

  Frankie Avalon

  Teenager, Angel, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.

  Frankie Avalon

  Song, Kids, Dvds

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• When I started to play trumpet I was fortunate to learn very quickly.

  Frankie Avalon

  Play, Trumpets, Fortunate

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

  Frankie Avalon

  Long, Age, Wells

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• By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Men, Thinking, World

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.9, Ballantine Books

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• No man or woman can live another's fate

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Fate, Men

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Believe, Men, Differences

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.971, Ballantine Books

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• From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Christian, Son, Tolerance

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• Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of the new moon on the Isle of Avalon," he said. "Yep. Good for one hour of great talent," said Annie. Jack smiled, remembering their hour as horse trainers and their hour as stage magicians. "I wonder what we'll be great at this time," he said. "Maybe great nurses?" said Annie. "We'll see," said Jack. He put the tiny bottle in his backpack; then he picked up the piece of paper from the floor. On the paper he had written the two secrets of greatness they'd

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Horse, Moon, Greatness

  Mary Pope Osborne (2014). “High Time for Heroes”, p.11, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Any movie about cult figure Charles Manson needs lots of sex, drugs and blood. But as John Roecker discovered while filming his first feature - screening Friday and Saturday only at the Avalon - the key to amping up the gore is an old standby: puppets.

  John Roecker

  Friday, Sex, Keys

  "John Roecker's 'Freaky' Puppet Show" by Christina Talcott, www.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2006.

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• I think I get really into comfort music: '60s stuff, '50s stuff like Frankie Avalon. I love it - such simple songs, but so well written. That, and old French pop. I love that, because I don't speak French. It's all just pop music! But I love it because it just makes me focus on the melodies.

  Michael Benjamin Lerner

  Song, Thinking, Simple

  "Michael Benjamin Lerner of Telekinesis". Interview With Cory Casciato, music.avclub.com. March 17, 2011.

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• Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, "If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole, force you through my bowels, then out my other end." Avalon scowled at him. "You can't do that." "Try me," Jix said. Avalon backed off, then angrily stormed away, and Jix winked at Jill. "One in five.

  Neal Shusterman

  Eye, Trying, Mouths

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• Who that man in the black Sedan
  With two cheap hookers and a Mexican
  Pumpin' white lines, sippin' warm Coors Light
  Mickey Avalon, call me Mr. Right

  Mickey Avalon

  Men, Two, Mr Right

  Song: Mr. Right, Album: Mickey Avalon, 2006

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• Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

  Rona Barrett

  Actors, Firsts, Eating

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• Visa for Avalon is a testament to the power of fiction. It illuminates the truth at the heart of what is commonly called reality. This account of lives transformed and ruined by the triumph of a totalitarian rule is a timely reminder of how moral and intellectual laziness and apathy can pave the road to the reign of terror brought on by such a system.

  Azar Nafisi

  Heart, Reality, Intellectual

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