Top 100 Damien Quotes
#1. Men fuck up, you know. Except for Damien," she adds with a completely straight face. "He's perfectly perfect." She manages to hold it together for a minute, and then we both laugh.
J. Kenner
#2. I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
Damien Hirst
#3. But it's a poor church that cares only for what happens to a soul after it leaves this life.
-Damien
Alan Brennert
#4. The the glow become brighter: a holographic golden sickle with a few sheaves of wheat, rotating just above Meg McCaffrey.
A boy in the crowd gasped. 'She's a communist!'
A girl who'd been sitting at Cabin Four's table gave him a disgusted sneer. 'No, Damien, that's my mom's symbol.
Rick Riordan
#5. And so I struggle against my bonds, not because I want to get free, not even because I want the pain. I want what it represents. That I am Damien's. Bound to him. Marked by him. Claimed by him.
J. Kenner
#6. On the opposite wall was a Damien Hirst spot painting, bought by Arabella after a decent bonus season. Roger's considered view of the painting, looking at it from aesthetic, art-historical, interior-design, and psychological points of view, was that it had cost forty-seven thousand pounds, plus VAT.
John Lanchester
#7. Secrets, he'd said, and I shiver, afraid that Damien's going to have to face that darkness. But I'll be there when he does, and we'll face the darkness together."
"I can. Because when Damien's beside me, I'm no longer afraid of the dark.
J. Kenner
#8. Damien is a friend.
Their boy-girl Lego doesn't click, he would say.
William Gibson
#9. Damien is my anchor to this world, and I am his. But if we are going to keep each other, we have to fight the shadows of
our pasts to move forward into our future.
J. Kenner
#10. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.
William Peter Blatty
#11. Please, Damien. You can't control the world? So what? Control me.
J. Kenner
#12. Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.
Ryan Giggs
#13. How many spanks have you had, Julia?" Damien asked.
"Two, Sir."
"What colour are you on?"
"Mortification," she mumbled.
Sierra Cartwright
#14. I'm a massive fan of Brit Art in general and Damien Hirst in particular. I think he's an absolute genius and should be celebrated in every way.
David Morrissey
#15. Great art, she felt, had a calming effect on the viewer; it made one stop in awe, which is exactly what Damien Hirst and Andy Warhol did not do. You did not stop in awe. They stopped you in your tracks, perhaps, but that was not the same thing; awe was something quite different
Alexander McCall Smith
#16. I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring
Ian Chappell
#17. Dominic shook his head. "Not money but we do have to work off our debt to him. My brothers, bar Damien, have certain jobs they do for Marco. My job is fighting.
L.A. Casey
#18. Come on, Eden, don't be naive. Demonic children are a dime a dozen in Netherworld. Need I mention Children of the Corn? Damien? Justine Bieber?
Michelle Rowen
#19. I assumed he knew that your coach was abusing you. I realized in the limo that he didn't."
For a moment, there is only silence. When Damien speaks, his words are ice cold. "He knew.
J. Kenner
#20. Like many people, I only knew of Ford Madox Ford through a book called 'The Good Soldier,' which is everybody's favorite Ford Madox Ford if they have one, but I came to read 'Parade's End' when it was suggested via Damien Timmer of Mammoth Screen.
Tom Stoppard
#21. I am like a switch, and all it takes is the slightest contact from Damien to send a wild current through me. To light me up and make me shine.
J. Kenner
#22. I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
Yayoi Kusama
#23. The coolest party I've ever D.J.ed would have to be for the artist Damien Hirst. It was an amazing party in Berlin. I had such a great time, and people danced all night long.
Chelsea Leyland
#24. Damien, wake up." I shake his shoulder. "Either we really set the sheets on fire, or something out there is burning.
J. Kenner
#25. We don't live far away, I'll hold her on my lap. Dominic has Bronagh."
I heard male grumbling then a quick, "I call shot gun."
It was Kane who spoke.
"The fuck?" Damien snapped. "Why do I have to sit between lover boys and the drunken sisters?
L.A. Casey
#26. I have a Damien Hirst spot painting which I love. It has pride of place over my dining-room table.
Cat Deeley
#27. I like Damien Stark. He's not what I expected, but there's something compelling about him - and it's more than just the fact that he's hotter than sin and got me worked up into quite a lather. He seems perfectly comfortable in his own skin.
J. Kenner
#28. I'm not spiraling down. I could never spiral down with you beside me. You hold me up, Damien.
J. Kenner
#29. If I am loved," Father Damien went on, "it is a merciless and exacting love against which I have no defense. If I am not loved, then I am being pitilessly manipulated by a force I cannot withstand, either, and so it is all the same. I must do what I must do. Go in peace.
Louise Erdrich
#30. And if you eat enough of those souls, they begin to corrupt you until you become one of them. Everyone knows that. (Kat)
Only if you're stupid. I'm two hundred years old and I haven't turned yet. You just have to learn to hum a lot so you don't hear their bullshit echoing in your head. (Damien)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#31. Until the late 1970s there'd either be only black or white in the paintings or if there were colours it would be a small amount, not a large area, and with the color separated from other colors by black or white (which is formula for Damien Hirst's successful dot paintings, incidentally).
Matthew Collings
#32. You let him go alone? (Kat)
Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there's a little thing outside called the sun ... yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn't be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#33. C'mon, Alec," Damien said. "Sung just wants us to win." "No," I said. "Sung only wants us to win. There's a difference." Damien and the others looked at me blankly. This was not, I remembered, a word-choice crowd.
Holly Black
#34. Sanctuary, home of the Howlers and stragglers of the Were universe. (Damien)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. He is power and poetry, grace and perfection, and I feel my body tighten in response to the beauty that is Damien.
J. Kenner
#36. When art is defined by Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, you've got a society that's impoverished.
Robert Adams
#37. G'day, ladies and gentlemen. Damien your cruise director here.
Sarah Lotz
#39. I will tell no one what I know of the two of you. But I would ask one small price for my silence. (Damien)
And that is? (Rowena)
If you still believe in God, then say a prayer for me. He turned a deaf ear to my pleas long ago. (Damien)
Kinley MacGregor
#40. You are my everything," he repeats. "But I can't be true to you if I'm not true to myself." - Damien Stark, Complete Me
J. Kenner
#41. Damien is Damien. When I don't put him in the squad my mother, who's 84, asks 'why isn't Damien playing?' She kills me about it and that's true
Claudio Ranieri
#42. I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.
Jemima Kirke
#43. My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.
David Bailey
#44. I think I understand what Damien needs. Not the pain, but the control.
J. Kenner
#45. With Damien's back bared before him, he could now see the subtle stamp of scars under the kirin, a lifetime of pain drowned beneath ink and determination.
Rhys Ford
#46. I wanted to flirt with with Chiara and steal her from Damien... or perhaps steal Damien away from Chiara, I wasn't sure yet
Rick Riordan
#47. Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien
I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred
Peter J. Tomasi
#48. Damien," Shaunee said. "Again you are getting on my damn - "
- last nerve with your unending vocab bullshit," Erin finished for her.
Kristin Cast
#49. Damien Hirst is acceptable because he's a brand. It's like buying a Porche. Hardline conservatives will never accept it, others think it's a massive waste of money but most will just shrug and move on
Qatar Cultural Official
#50. I have never seen the truth," said Damien, "without crossing my eyes. Life is crazy.
Louise Erdrich
#51. Where Damien and I are concerned, there is never just silence. There is heat and electricity and lust and need, all harnessing the power of the universe to pull us together. And how can I be expected to fight physics?
J. Kenner
#52. I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the U.K. hip hop scene.
Lupe Fiasco
#53. Damien Vesper Didn't plan on killing anyone today
Rick Riordan
#54. I always feel a bit trapped when a painting goes for millions of pounds and only one person can have it. If you can have that as well as a poster on every student's wall, then you're in a very enviable position. I'd like to do a Damien Hirst for £500 at some point.
Damien Hirst
#55. Alannah cleared her throat. "Does no one wa-want to have sex with me?" she asked, sounding tired. "I promise I'm good at it." All eyes fell on Damien. He glared at us. "Thanks very much, guys!" I grinned. "We got you.
L.A. Casey
#56. A smile is his only answer, but it doesn't matter. I already know how, and it doesn't scare me: Damien Stark can see beneath my mask.
J. Kenner
#57. Because Damien Stark is like crack to me. Seductive and very, very addictive.
J. Kenner
#58. We have to remember Damien Duff is one of the most good players in the Premiership
Frank Stapleton
#59. Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entrepreneurial potty-mouthed prophet and front man. Hirst synthesizes punk, Pop Art, Jeff Koons, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Bacon, and Catholicism.
Jerry Saltz
#60. We all know about Father Damien, the French priest who voluntarily forsook the world and went to the leper island of Molokai to labor among its population of sorrowful exiles who wait there, in slow-consuming misery, for death to come and release them from their troubles;
Mark Twain
#61. I was a huge fan of Damien Rice - and I am a huge fan still!
Megan Hilty
#62. No, Damien Stark is just one of those dark, quiet types. He's like an iceberg, Texas. The deep parts are well hidden and what you do see is hard and a little bit cold.
J. Kenner
#63. Want the reality. The moments, like the Bradbury story, when Damien lets me in enough to see a bit of his past and a piece of his heart.
J. Kenner
#64. Christ, Damien. How am I supposed to do anything today other than want you?" "Sweetheart, there's nothing else today that you need to be doing.
J. Kenner
#65. Between these two, where was the real self? It came to her that both Sister Cecilia and then Agnes were as heavily manufactured of gesture and pose as was Father Damien. And within this, what sifting of identity was she? What mote? What nothing?
Louise Erdrich
#66. Another two-bowl morning? - Damien Maslin asking Zoey Redbird if her love of cereal was the reason she was almost late for Vamp Soc class
P.C. Cast
#67. -During Thanatos's class-
Damien tapped quickly on his iPad and lifted it so we could all see: Torn Asunder=Torn To Pieces
P.C. Cast
#68. That's twenty Slater children if we all meet the quota," Branna mused. "Twenty-five when Damien eventually settles down." I blew out a large breath. "Our poor fuckin' fannies." We burst into a fit of laughter.
L.A. Casey
#70. Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
Damien Hirst
#71. Damien has died and gone straight to gay boy heaven,' Shaunee said ...
P.C. Cast
#72. Damien glared at the buxom beauty before him and almost gave in to the urge to strangle her himself.
Milly Taiden
#73. If I go to London, everyone wants to talk about Damien Hirst. I'm just not interested in him. Never have been.
Dave Hickey
#74. I often wondered if I'd be better off in prison, until I met that ray of sunshine - Claire MacKenna
Scarlett Grove
#75. My other car is a vehicle with a bumper sticker describing this car.
Damien Fahey
#76. I've learned over the years that sooner or later a person's physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart.
Damien Echols
#77. I don't like the idea the viewer can kind of sit there and go, 'Make me like this person.' People aren't inherently sympathetic.
Damien Chazelle
#78. At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.
Damien Chazelle
#79. I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
Damien Rice
#80. I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortable in my skin so that I do not need to dump any of my discomfort onto someone else in the form of judgment.
Damien Rice
#81. I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
Damien Rice
#82. Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
Damien Rice
#83. Stones taught me to fly, love taught me to lie, courage teach me to be shy ... because it's not hard to fall when you float like a cannonball.
Damien Rice
#84. I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter.
Damien Chazelle
#85. I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.
Damien Hirst
#86. It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.
Damien Chazelle
#87. When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto other paths creatively for a while and see what comes to me.
Damien Rice
#88. When it comes to popping pills, probably 90 percent bad. And people say they're not addictive - I still have yearnings for them. Especially after a few pints. I don't think you ever lose the yearning for them.
Damien Dempsey
#89. My dad is a big jazz fan, and that was the reason I first got into jazz.
Damien Chazelle
#90. If you're on the varsity team, the responsibilities are a lot bigger and there's more stress, but you also walk around feeling probably like you can hold your head high.
Damien Chazelle
#91. The Eucharist is the bread that gives strength ... It is at once the most eloquent proof of His love and the most powerful means of fostering His love in us. He gives Himself every day so that our hearts as burning coals may set afire the hearts of the faithful.
Father Damien
#92. It's a weird thing where, especially in jazz, you have to totally mention cutting sessions and people one-upping each other and people being super, super tough on each other. And out of it emerge these genius musicians.
Damien Chazelle
#93. But for me, from my point of view, I don't mind if it falls over ... if you break the glass you replace the glass, if the sheep falls out you can always get a new sheep.
Damien Hirst
#94. Good things are always coming; sometimes we just forget it.
Damien Echols
#95. Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
Damien Hirst
#96. If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
Damien Chazelle
#97. It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style is very military influenced. The snare drum comes from the military and becomes the core kind of sound of jazz drums.
Damien Chazelle
#99. The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
Damien Rice
#100. You've got to be oblivious to other people, the push and pull of other people's opinions, the way other people measure success. It's then that you realize you are 100 percent who you are and you have to use that who-you-are 100 percent in order to create great things.
Damien Hirst
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