Demon Quotes - Page 17

• All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

  Julian Sands

  Running, Actors

  "The Delightfully Prickly Julian Sands". Interview with Michelle Orange, www.ifc.com. August 3.

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• The true art of being young is knowing how to defy gravity and upset as many people as possible while doing it. How to penetrate the great secrets of the universe and damn the torpedoes. How to stir the demons of our destiny.

  Mick Rock

  Art, Destiny, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Mick Rock from Mar 20, 2015

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• Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon.

  Dave Sim

  Done, Firsts, First Time

  "Church & State volume I". Comic Book by Dave Sim, 1987.

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• Absorbing. . . . Scrupulously reported . . . illuminates today’s Middle East. . . . The ‘least interventionist of any modern president,’ the father of the Eisenhower Doctrine that still defines US policy in the Middle East . . . in 1956 battled demons in bodies personal and politic and in the desert – and prevailed. Nichols’ book, written lean enough to allow the facts to speak for themselves, makes for exciting history.

  Carlo Wolff

  Father, Book, President

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• The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

  Marya Mannes

  Success, Real, Anxiety

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• Perchance God will pity a race that sought the better angels of its nature and found only its lesser demons.

  Robert Breault

  Angel, Race, Pity

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• Unbelievers, those who believe with difficulty, or believe in part, are those who do not show their faith through works. Apart from works the demons also believe (cf. Jms. 2:19) and confess Christ to be God and Master. 'We know Who You are' (Mk. 1:24), they say, 'You are the Son of God' (Mt. 8:29), and elsewhere, 'These men are the servants of the Most High God' (Acts 16:17). Yet such faith will not benefit the demons, nor even humans. This faith is of no use, for it is dead.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Believe, Son

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• I think that-that anyone, the painter, the musician, the writer works in a-a kind of an-an insane fury. He's demon-driven. He can get up feeling rotten, with a hangover, or with-with actual pain, and-and if he gets to work, the first thing he knows, he don't remember that pain, that hangover-he's too busy.

  William Faulkner

  Pain, Hangover, Thinking

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• Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!

  Emma Donoghue

  Children, Eye, Thinking

  "Emma Donoghue: 'To say Room is based on the Josef Fritzl case is too strong'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. August 13, 2010.

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• I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

  Barbara Broccoli

  Hero, Character, Thinking

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• I'm the demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol, demon alcohol. Let's party.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Party, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Demon Alcohol, Album: No Rest for the Wicked, 1988

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• Got demons on both shoulders.

  Busta Rhymes

  Evil, Shoulders

  Song: Why We Die, Album: Anarchy, 2000

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• Oh, demon alcohol, sad memories I can't recall.

  Ray Davies

  Memories, Evil, Alcohol

  Song: Alcohol

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• Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself... The problem is not to blame or explain but to handle the life that arises... If you say no to a single factor in your life, you have unraveled the whole thing... The demon that you swallow gives you its power, and the greater life's pain, the greater life's reply.

  Joseph Campbell

  Pain, Knowing Who You Are, Giving

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• To live sanely in Los Angeles ... you have to cultivate the art of staying awake. You must learn to resist (firmly but not tensely) the unceasing hypnotic suggestions of the radio, the billboards, the movies and the newspapers; those demon voices which are forever whispering in your ear what you should desire, what you should fear, what you should wear and eat and drink and enjoy, what you should think and do and be.

  Christopher Isherwood

  Art, Thinking, Voice

  Christopher Isherwood (1966). “Exhumations: Stories, Articles, Verses”

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• You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children , you must not do it anymore. A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god .

  Leonard Cohen

  Children, Sacrifice, Vision

  Song: Story Of Isaac, Album: Live Songs, 1969

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• I simply write what I want, wish, long to write.... The state of human life and the god or demon within. The constant internal war that being alive can conjure.

  Tanith Lee

  War, Writing, Long

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• Nobody knows if Zidane is an angel or demon. He smiles like Saint Teresa and grimaces like a serial killer.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Angel, Zidane, Serial Killer

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• Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Giving, Old Time

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• Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.

  Jaron Lanier

  Silly, Technology, Reality

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• Most people think witches are a coven of lesbians dancing naked in the forest celebrating the semen stolen from imprisoned hypnotized males, which they then use to inseminate one another using turkey basters in order to create a legion of demon babies. Well, that's only part of it. We are also active in community outreach programs.

  Amy Sedaris

  Baby, Thinking, Order

  "Wigfield". Book by Amy Sedaris, Paul Dinello, and Stephen Colbert, 2003.

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• Had enough of my poetry yet? That's why they pay me to fight demons instead.

  Charles Stross

  Fighting, Pay, Had Enough

  Charles Stross (2010). “Overtime: A Tor.Com Original”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Abstract and conceptual painters face different demons than representational painters, but neither group has a monopoly on either authenticity or originality.

  Steven Whitney

  Groups, Different, Faces

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• Today, it may seem as if there are demons attacking me from within. I should remember that demons are illusory, and that when I think that I'm being attacked by unseen forces, it probably just means that I am going insane.

  John S. Hall

  Mean, Thinking, Insane

  "Daily Negations". Book by John S. Hall, 2007.

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• We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?

  Chris Abani

  Hero, Thinking, Hunting

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.91, Penguin

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