Posts Tagged ‘Hell’

December 17th, 2011 Author, Author Types, Authors, G No Comments »

Georges Bernanos

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
Georges Bernanos

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
Georges Bernanos

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
Georges Bernanos

A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos

Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
Georges Bernanos

Faith is not a thing which one “loses,” we merely cease to shape our lives by it.
Georges Bernanos

It’s a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Georges Bernanos

The modern state no longer has anything but rights; it does not recognize duties any more.
Georges Bernanos

Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.
Georges Bernanos

Hell, madam, is to love no longer.
Georges Bernanos

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos

Who are you to condemn another’s sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
Georges Bernanos

Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward.
Georges Bernanos

What does the truth matter? Haven’t we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast!
Georges Bernanos

A poor man with nothing in his belly needs hope, illusion, more than bread.
Georges Bernanos

Hope is a risk that must be run.
Georges Bernanos

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
Georges Bernanos

June 25th, 2011 A, Author Types, Authors, Novelist No Comments »

Arnold Bennett

Journalists say a thing that they know isn’t true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Arnold Bennett

Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
Arnold Bennett

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going… Concentrate on something useful.
Arnold Bennett

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett

Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it.
Arnold Bennett

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
Arnold Bennett

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Arnold Bennett

Well, my deliberate opinion is – it’s a jolly strange world.
Arnold Bennett

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.
Arnold Bennett

Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
Arnold Bennett

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.
Arnold Bennett

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.
Arnold Bennett

If egotism means a terrific interest in one’s self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold Bennett

June 9th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Comedian, J No Comments »

John Belushi

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.
John Belushi

It’s all false pressure; you put the heat on yourself, you get it from the networks and record companies and movie studios. You put more pressure on yourself to make everything that much harder.
John Belushi

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!
John Belushi

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.
John Belushi

Work is no longer challenging.
John Belushi

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.
John Belushi

I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?
John Belushi

June 1st, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Director, M No Comments »

Michael Bay

I allow a lot of room for improvisation and funny stuff. I always feel planned.
Michael Bay

It’s great that I get accused of not being politically correct. People need to take themselves less seriously. This world is so screwed up as it is, we’ve all got to relax a bit more.
Michael Bay

A lot of directors don’t want the pressure of a movie the size of Pearl Harbor. But I love it. I thrive on it.
Michael Bay

Do you know what directors go through? It’s just hell. Like, why do I work so hard – to think I’m only going to see this movie five times and then never see it again ’cause I’m so sick of it? What is it worth, honestly?
Michael Bay

I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn’t shy. I can be like a general. But I’ve got a shy side. I’m also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don’t let people in too much.’
Michael Bay

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.
Michael Bay

Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism.
Michael Bay

Fast cars are my only vice.
Michael Bay

It’s… a hard thing for a director, to think you came up with a shot, something from your mind, and someone died while doing it. It’s the worst thing you’ll ever have to live with. It was very hard for me to get back on the horse again.
Michael Bay

Maybe I have just a younger voice than many other directors.
Michael Bay

The press don’t like to say nice things because nice is boring. It’s much better to label me the devil. What we do is not brain surgery. We are entertainers, plain and simple, and we’re responsible to bring that money back, to make a profit.
Michael Bay

I go out there to win. People don’t care if you die in this business. The only way I get back is with success.
Michael Bay

I’m at that point in my life where I definitely want to get married soon. I’ve got my dogs as surrogates, but I’m ready for kids.
Michael Bay

We don’t make movies for critics. I’ve done four movies; there’s millions upon millions upon millions of people who’ve paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.
Michael Bay

I love doing big movies. It’s awesome! You have all these toys. The thing I like about this movie is, like they always say, directors have the biggest train sets! Don’t tell anyone, but I’d do this for free.
Michael Bay

What I look for in a script is something that challenges me, something that breaks new ground, something that allows me to flex my director muscle. You have got to think fast in this business, you’ve got to keep reinventing yourself to stay on top.
Michael Bay

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I’ve made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.
Michael Bay

May 16th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Judge, R No Comments »

Roy Bean

Time will pass and seasons will come and go.
Roy Bean

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.
Roy Bean

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.
Roy Bean

Gentlemen, I find the law very explicit on murdering your fellow man, but there’s nothing here about killing a Chinaman. Case dismissed.
Roy Bean

Hang ‘em first, try ‘em later.
Roy Bean

I know the law… I am it’s greatest transgressor.
Roy Bean

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin’ brown and golden under a sinkin’ sun.
Roy Bean

May 13th, 2011 Author Types, Authors, Playwright, S No Comments »

Samuel Beckett

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett

Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
Samuel Beckett

Words are all we have.
Samuel Beckett

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
Samuel Beckett

Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett

Do we mean love, when we say love?
Samuel Beckett

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett

Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it.
Samuel Beckett

Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel Beckett

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Samuel Beckett

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.
Samuel Beckett

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.
Samuel Beckett

We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Samuel Beckett

That’s how it is on this bitch of an earth.
Samuel Beckett

You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Samuel Beckett

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Samuel Beckett

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett

Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile… a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett

Where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.
Samuel Beckett

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett

April 23rd, 2011 Athlete, Author Types, Authors, S No Comments »

Sammy Baugh

Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.
Sammy Baugh

April 6th, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, D No Comments »

Drew Barrymore

Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
Drew Barrymore

Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Drew Barrymore

I’m not after fame and success and fortune and power. It’s mostly that I want to have a good job and have good friends; that’s the good stuff in life.
Drew Barrymore

My whole life, I’ve wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It’s the most liberating thing in the world.
Drew Barrymore

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
Drew Barrymore

There’s a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there’s no person I’m going to push to the side to get where I’m going. I want to create my own road.
Drew Barrymore

I’ve been a vegetarian for years and years. I’m not judgemental about others who aren’t, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.
Drew Barrymore

When things are perfect, that’s when you need to worry most.
Drew Barrymore

Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
Drew Barrymore

It’s only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.
Drew Barrymore

Kissing – and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
Drew Barrymore

When you’ve been locked up in a mental institution, people are going to ask questions. It was OK, because I didn’t have to act perfect all the time.
Drew Barrymore

You’ve just got to do the best that you can.
Drew Barrymore

I never want to get to the point where it’s all about my needs, and the hell with anybody else.
Drew Barrymore

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important.
Drew Barrymore

There’s something liberating about not pretending. Dare to embarrass yourself. Risk.
Drew Barrymore

When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That’s when I feel beautiful.
Drew Barrymore

If you’re going to go through hell… I suggest you come back learning something.
Drew Barrymore

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?
Drew Barrymore

I want people to love me, but it’s not going to hurt me if they don’t.
Drew Barrymore

Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.
Drew Barrymore

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew Barrymore

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.
Drew Barrymore

I love romance. I’m a sucker for it. I love it so much. It’s pathetic.
Drew Barrymore

April 6th, 2011 Artist, Author Types, Authors, C No Comments »

Carl Barks

There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
Carl Barks

I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. But there isn’t a person in the United States who couldn’t identify with him. He is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make.
Carl Barks

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn’t anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
Carl Barks

I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
Carl Barks

I read some of my stories recently and thought, ‘How in the hell did I get away with that?’ I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.
Carl Barks

March 31st, 2011 Actress, Author Types, Authors, R No Comments »

Roseanne Barr

There’s a lot more to being a woman than being a mother, but there’s a hell of a lot more to being a mother than most people suspect.
Roseanne Barr

It’s okay to be fat. So you’re fat. Just be fat and shut up about it.
Roseanne Barr

My hope is that gays will be running the world, because then there would be no war. Just a greater emphasis on military apparel.
Roseanne Barr

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I’ve done my job.
Roseanne Barr

Excuse the mess but we live here.
Roseanne Barr

I figure if my kids are alive at the end of the day, I’ve done my job.
Roseanne Barr

My husband and I didn’t sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.
Roseanne Barr

The quickest way to a man’s heart is through his chest.
Roseanne Barr

I hate every human being on earth. I feel that everyone is beneath me, and I feel they should all worship me. That’s what I told my kids. I think I must have been Adolf Hitler in a past life.
Roseanne Barr

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.
Roseanne Barr

I was completely nuts for most of my life.
Roseanne Barr

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.
Roseanne Barr

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we’ll take up, and the more we’ll have to be reckoned with.
Roseanne Barr

I figure that if the children are alive when I get home, I’ve done my job.
Roseanne Barr

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there’s my personal favorite, the male ego.
Roseanne Barr

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you’re feeling festive?
Roseanne Barr

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people… that’s why I don’t like any of them.
Roseanne Barr