Defrocked Quotes

#1. REGINALD BURNABY THE GREAT (variously identified as a defrocked Roman Catholic priest from Galway, an ex-convict from Liverpool, if not an escaped convict from that seaport city)

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.

Sun Tzu

#3. Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

Nirmala Srivastava

#4. If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?

George Carlin

#5. In order for stories to work - for kids and for adults - they should scare. And you should triumph. There's no point in triumphing over evil if the evil isn't scary.

Neil Gaiman

#6. When you're with someone who is dying, you may need to celebrate the past, live the present, and mourn the future all at the same time.

Will Schwalbe

#7. True friends are trustworthy angels.

Doreen Virtue

#8. They're both mad, I tell you, the two of them.
One's just shown it, the other's been that way since she was born.

Sophocles

#9. And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They have a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.

Lord Byron

#10. He'd say most kids were made of sugar and spice, but his Kylee was made of pancakes.

Mia Moore

#11. As the sociologist Daniel Bell later observed, Oppenheimer's ordeal signified that the postwar "messianic role of the scientists" was now at an end.

Kai Bird

#12. We are psychologically programmed not only to nurture what we love but to love what we nurture.

Sherry Turkle

#13. On balance, the financial system subracts value from society

John C. Bogle

#14. Live interviews are more difficult to distort.

Bianca Jagger

#15. A defrocked heretic accountant, Grimm had learned just enough mathemagics to be a nuisance, if not actually dangerous, and had been thrown out of the Accountants' Guild for unethical use of imaginary numbers.

Simon R. Green

#16. I have a spaniel that defrocked a nun last week. He took hold of the cord. I had hold of the leash. It was like elephants holding tails. Imagine me undressing a nun, even second hand.

E.B. White

#17. I just start playing music and eventually I sing something, a line of a verse or a B section or a line of a chorus, and the line that I end up singing is related to the music I'm playing, if that makes any sense. And I go from there.

Bob Seger