Melissa de la Cruz Quotes

This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.

Melissa de la Cruz

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• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Exercise
  • Matter

• The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

  

  Waverley Lewis Root
  • Day
  • Destiny
  • Turkey

• Habit is a great deadener.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Great
  • Habit

• I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Morning

• Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Life
  • Home
  • My Life

• I like to dress up every now and then.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Up
  • Now
  • Dress

• Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Experience
  • Parents
  • Knowledge

• You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Proud
  • Guilty
  • Senate

• My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Like
  • Brain
  • Quiet

• Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • Life
  • Dreams
  • Snow

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Work
  • Truth

• Inside me I'm screaming, nobody pays any attention. If I had arms, I could kill myself. If I had legs, I could run away. If I had a voice, I could talk and be some kind of company for myself. I could yell for help, but nobody would help me.

  

  Dalton Trumbo
  • Help
  • Attention

• The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.

  

  Lionel Trilling

• 'Aid from heaven you may have,' he said, 'by saying your prayers; and I don't doubt you ask for this and all other things generally. But an angel won't come to tell you who ought to be Chancellor of the Exchequer.'

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May
  • Heaven
  • Doubt

• The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • People
  • Up
  • Intuition

• Apart from logical cogency, there is to me something a little odd about the ethical valuations of those who think that an omnipotent, omniscient, and benevolent Deity, after preparing the ground by many millions of years of lifeless nebulae, would consider Himself adequately rewarded by the final emergence of Hitler and Stalin and the H-bomb.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• I love Steve Carell and Will Ferrell - they're my heroes.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe

• When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • School
  • Age
  • Boy

• I was lying in a burned out basementWith the full moon in my eyes.I was hoping for replacementWhen the sun burst through the sky.There was a band playing in my headAnd I felt like getting high.I was thinking about what aFriend had saidI was hoping it was a lie.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Thinking
  • High
  • Eyes

• For my whole career, I've been a singer-slash-songwriter, even though I'm very thankfully known for my voice. Songwriting has always been a joy in my life, and to be recognized for it is extremely validating.

  

  Jennifer Nettles Sugarland
  • Life
  • Career
  • Joy

• This is not some silly game...This is life and death Angels and demons.

  

  Melissa de la Cruz
  • Life
  • Game
  • Angels