Demon Quotes

• The problem is that if we had known Satan was taking over the world we would have needed a whole other budget for, like, dragons and flying demons and, you know, like the sun disappearing from the world. Winter is coming. It would have been so expensive the way we would have needed to do it, had we known that the apocalypse was coming.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • World
  • Problem
  • Sun

• We have to fight off the demons that have been hanging around suicide for centuries.

  

  Judy Collins
  • Fighting
  • Suicide
  • Century

• The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.

  

  Agnes de Mille
  • Demon

• I am part-demon, part-human. What else does that make me?" She answered his question with one of her own. "I am part-centaur, part-human. Does that make me a mutant?" "It makes you a miracle." She held his gaze. "Exactly.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • She
  • Question
  • Miracle

• There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors... the list goes on and on.

  

  Cullen Bunn
  • Demon

• Memo to future presidents: Never stake your entire survival on the painful passing of a bad bill. Never take the country down the road to 'Demon Pass.'

  

  Peggy Noonan
  • Country
  • Bad
  • Future

• I'm currently shooting 'Ava's Possessions,' which is a really fun movie about a woman who gets possessed by a demon. I call it 'Memento' meets 'The Exorcist.'

  

  Alysia Reiner
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Demon

• Depression is a real demon in the woods for a lot of creative people, you know? It's part of what the documentary is trying to be about for me, finding balance, where the beauty that is attainable in the creative arts can be matched with the scratchy roughness of regular life.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Balance
  • Depression
  • Creative People

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Moments
  • Demon

• I think I'm getting better at being verbal. I used to have a lot of problems with it. I had my own little demons that I was fighting, and I used the banjo as an escape.

  

  Bela Fleck Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
  • Problems
  • Escape
  • Verbal

• When the demon was muscling for action she was like the princess in the fairy tale from whose mouth toads fell. The small part of her which remained outside the dominion of her temper stood aghast but inefficient as one after the other the reptiles showered forth.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Princess
  • Fairytale
  • Remained

• the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Persons
  • Hardest
  • Casts

• Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Passion
  • Artist
  • Muse

• There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Around
  • Demon

• Behold, I send the demon I know to relieve your need, An imperfect player at the perfect instrument Who takes in hand The Regulator of the World To keep the splendor from destroying us.

  

  Allen Grossman
  • Instrument
  • Demon
  • Destroying

• Gaze no more in the bitter glass The demons, with their subtle guile, Lift up before us when they pass, Or only gaze a little while.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Reality
  • Bitter
  • Glasses

• I’ll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don’t want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitting in some phony-baloney church. Or synagogue.

  

  Charles Montgomery
  • Opportunity
  • Wish
  • Church

• Everyone's got their problems and their demons, but when we get onstage and play as five, that really all goes away, and that's really all I look at.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Play
  • Problem
  • Looks

• Stop screamin', you know the demon said it's best to die, And even if Jehovah witness, bet he'll never testify, D'Evils.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Stop
  • Die
  • Evil

• You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Doubt
  • Halloween
  • Compliment

• If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. Besides, those voices are merely guardians and demons protecting the real treasure, the first thoughts of the mind.

  

  Natalie
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Critics

• It's almost as if a demon might have passed from one host to another.

  

  John Forbes Nash, Jr.
  • Demon

• Demons are demons, and if you have them, you can either put them away, exorcize them, or carry them with you.

  

  Jill Flint
  • Demon

• There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mean
  • Study
  • Easy

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