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

• 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

• The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Language
  • Speed

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

  

  Agnes de Mille
  • Demon

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Wes Nisker
  • Passion
  • Artist
  • Muse

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Elizabeth George Speare
  • Persons
  • Hardest
  • Casts

• 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

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

  

  Jill Flint
  • 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

• 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

• The development of self-confidence starts with the elimination of this demon called fear.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Fear
  • Confidence
  • Development

• 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

• 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

• Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. (Cover and title of Cerebus #65, August 1984, collected in Church & State I, p. 7 and 273)

  

  Dave Sim
  • Time
  • Done
  • Church

• Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

  

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Demon

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