R. A. Lafferty Quotes

We must kill the Devil afresh every day.

R. A. Lafferty

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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Career

• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Different
  • Always
  • Brain

• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Bored

• The imperative is to define what is right and do it.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Right
  • Define
  • Imperative

• Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

  

  Gary Cole
  • Long
  • Me
  • Camera

• On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Day
  • Value
  • Economic

• The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Problem
  • Nation
  • Admit

• Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Win
  • Army
  • Run

• I have a weird and undying love for George Michael. He's the reason why I want to do what I do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Love
  • Why
  • Want

• The Church is now more like the Scribes and Pharisees than like Christ... What are now called the 'essential doctrines' of the Christian religion he does not even mention.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Church
  • Christian

• God is going to supply a million dollars, somebody is praying right now, right this second, you’re praying for a million dollars and God said, 'I have heard your prayer, I know your need, and I'm going to supply the need that you requested,' it's done, in Jesus' name.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Done
  • Jesus

• Most of us suffer from a kind of myopia. We see only the things that fit in with our beliefs about the world.

  

  T. J. MacGregor
  • World

• The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against him by alleging the trials which Christ endured, and that it was not much for me to suffer something for His sake; besides, He would help me to bear it.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Life
  • Help
  • Myself

• Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.

  

  William Booth
  • Devil
  • Harmony
  • Divine

• If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Crazy
  • Son
  • Cutting

• We must kill the Devil afresh every day.

  

  R. A. Lafferty
  • Devil