Top 100 Devlin's Quotes

#1. In all of eternity, no faery born has overcome me in anything.'
Aaah. Pride goeth before the fall, my friend"
Irial stood and clasped Devlin's hand
"but you've already fallen, haven't you?'
And to that, Devlin had no answer.

Melissa Marr

Devlin's Quotes #685774
#2. What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality.

Ronald Dworkin

Devlin's Quotes #1273654
#3. She tore her eyes open and gasped in surprise when Jake took Devlin's cock in his mouth and began to suck.

Olivia Cunning

Devlin's Quotes #289422
#4. The man - god - could control the weather, for God's sake. Annnd now that phrase took on a whole new meaning.

Laura Kaye

Devlin's Quotes #1227555
#5. She peered up at him. Damn, she would've thought he was a god even if he hadn't told her he actually was, though just of the usual, incredibly sexy kind.

Laura Kaye

Devlin's Quotes #950038
#6. It was where I was supposed to be now. But it wasn't where I wanted to be.

Ivy Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1227478
#7. I think my life will always be worth living, though I don't imagine it being very easy.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1223898
#8. There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1203807
#9. I remembered screaming then, screaming until my voice stopped.

Ivy Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1196095
#10. It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere I spoke and still cannot comprehend the mentality that argues that I should have pretended not to see them, because it wasn't my business.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1194676
#11. The thing is, how do you expect to fuck dirty if you can't even talk it?

Julia Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1186507
#12. Not to conclude that the worst thing to happen to Michael Devlin was also the best thing to happen to them.

Elizabeth Kelly

Devlin's Quotes #1148887
#13. What about our human rights,' demanded Carl, who'd gathered a small deputation of kids within minutes. 'There is a WAR ON,' said Crewman Devlin, shortly. I wondered if this meant grown-ups actually listen to you when there wasn't a war on, because somehow I was sceptical.

Sophia McDougall

Devlin's Quotes #1140859
#14. I'm the soft light compared to their ultraviolet.

Calla Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1133402
#15. I haven't don anything wrong. At least, not for a few hours

Jennifer A. Nielsen

Devlin's Quotes #1123039
#16. You testified, in court, that you gave the interview tapes to Devlin.

Emma Flint

Devlin's Quotes #1118191
#17. Under a system in which no single question is submitted to the electorate for direct decision, an ardent minority for or against a particular measure may often count for more than an apathetic majority.

Patrick, Baron Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1093641
#18. Indeed, nowadays no electrical engineer could get along without complex numbers, and neither could anyone working in aerodynamics or fluid dynamics.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1068539
#19. It was amazing how flowers could grow in the damnedest places, but the Devlin weed patch had sprouted quite a wildflower in Faith.

Linda Howard

Devlin's Quotes #1064673
#20. Free love is too expensive.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1045548
#21. Yes, something [book] to transport your mind from where and who and what you are. Everyone needs that. A time or two in my past, it seemed that a book was the only thing that stood between me and near insanity.

Lisa Kleypas

Devlin's Quotes #1028139
#22. You are, Devlin, too young to understand how rare a thing true love is, how unlikely in this world to happen, and when it does, how unlikely to endure. And once it is lost, how hard to live without.

Wayne Johnston

Devlin's Quotes #1000700
#23. And here is this boy, who acts like he spent his life with a map and I'm the buried treasure.

Calla Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #992957
#24. Love can be broken but never forgotten.

Ivy Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #985126
#25. Listen, there is no way any true man is going to let children live around him in his home and not discipline and teach, fight and mold them until they know all he knows. His goal is to make them better than he is. Being their friend is a distant second to this.

Victor Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #983279
#26. The completion of a rigorous course in mathematics - it is not even necessary that the student does well in such a course - appears to be an excellent means of sharpening the mind and developing mental skills that are of general benefit.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #962265
#27. I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's fairy tales as well. (Katherine Rae O'Flaherty)
"Books are not the same as reality," Devlin stared at her. "My world is not always kind to mortals.

Melissa Marr

Devlin's Quotes #1593344
#28. you. Devlin and I will take our chances on the run." They rode on in silence, speeding west toward Phoenix now, a massive, distant glow on the horizon, like a city on fire.

Blake Crouch

Devlin's Quotes #1426570
#29. Irish Catholics are more interested in the rosary beads than in the rosary ...

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1591732
#30. Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1582959
#31. Jesus honey, your husband ain't dead, he's in hiding. He growled, watching her visibly flinch. - Jase Devlin

Nina D'Angelo

Devlin's Quotes #1570802
#32. I'm not looking for the Fountain of Youth. . .I'm looking for the Fountain of Knowledge and Wisdom.

Devlin De La Chapa

Devlin's Quotes #1566223
#33. I'm not good enough to be a saint and not bad enough to be interesting.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1557386
#34. Do not mistake my compassion for injured creatures as any kind of personal interest, Mr. Devlin. I once bandaged the paw of a stray dog I found in the village. I would place you in the same category as he."
"My angel of mercy.

Lisa Kleypas

Devlin's Quotes #1553037
#35. Consider the contrast between the well-bred,

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1544909
#36. [T]he three greatest works are those of Homer, Dante and Shakespeare.
These are closely followed by the works of Virgil and Milton.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1498658
#37. Rolling her eyes, Anna stepped to the Jeep's door. You riding with me or using your invisibility cloak?

Laura Kaye

Devlin's Quotes #1492911
#38. Arthur Devlin, you and my husband may have been in the same grade, but you were never in the same class.

Clare Vanderpool

Devlin's Quotes #1432228
#39. Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1426871
#40. Life's tough," Mia said with a shrug. "You play the cards you're dealt or you fold.

Nora Roberts

Devlin's Quotes #1236486
#41. Shakespeare was not a scholar in the sense we regard the term to-day, yet no man ever lived or probably ever will live that equalled or will equal him in the expression of thought. He simply read the book of nature and interpreted it from the standpoint of his own magnificent genius.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1419322
#42. We mathematicians are used to the fact that our subject is widely misunderstood, perhaps more than any other subject (except perhaps linguistics).

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1397292
#43. And of course it has nothing to do with the fact that I haven't been with a women since I came to your bed back in February-Devlin.

Gaelen Foley

Devlin's Quotes #1379386
#44. There is an old Latin quotation in regard to the poet which says 'Poeta nascitur non fit' the translation of which is - the poet is born, not made.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1317885
#45. The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.

Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1310075
#46. The linear-programming was - and is - perhaps the single most important real-life problem.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1302792
#47. There's a fine line between standing behind a principle and hiding behind one.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1279828
#48. So hot and tight. You're going to be a screamer. You're already fighting to keep quiet, and I've barely started. His low, hoarse voice sent shivers down her back.

Julia Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1273732
#49. We were born into an unjust system; we are not prepared to grow old in it.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1270786
#50. The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1248426
#51. Ben kissed me like he could kiss me forever, like he had to kiss me forever and he wanted to, he wanted me, and when he felt my surprise at that, I could feel again how beautiful I was to him, how I was beautiful beyond words.

Ivy Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #1248138
#52. A PhD in Mathematics is three years of guessing it wrong, plus one week of getting it right and writing a dissertation.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #231509
#53. Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #440983
#54. A child can learn what is right as easy as what is wrong and whatever impressions are made on the mind when it is plastic will remain there.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #436790
#55. Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #402351
#56. Cardinal arithmetic will be quite important for us, so we spend some time on it. Since, however, it tends to be trivial, we shall not need to spend much of this time on proofs.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #392075
#57. But it's not always as set as that. Some things, though, feel like they're right. You and me? It's one of those things. I don't know why they see or why things are such a mess, but in the middle of it all, I do know that being around you is one of tue best things that happened to me in, well, ever.

Melissa Marr

Devlin's Quotes #385969
#58. Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #369926
#59. We are cannibalizing our audience by only giving them regurgitated material. Every movie is either a remake, a sequel, based on something else. Based on a former television series. Based on a successful videogame.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #347231
#60. Keep the story alive," he said. "Memory cheats death.

Martina Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #324752
#61. ripped the paper

Leah Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #273717
#62. The movie business is not something that can come from the brain. It really comes from the soul and the heart.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #273226
#63. I knew I was in bad shape because, despite how my gut clenched with hunger, my fangs didn't lengthen. Erectile dysfunction. I had vampire ED, on top of everything else.

Fayth Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #254514
#64. Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #237227
#65. In life's earnest battle they only prevail Who daily march onward and never say fail.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #445215
#66. Because handsomeness is always accompanied by vanity.
And I suppose ugliness is accompanied by a wealth of virtues?

Lisa Kleypas

Devlin's Quotes #219618
#67. As for 'Independence Day,' we never intended to do any films in that series beyond the first one.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #201111
#68. Ya game is fine, but ya booze-eyes are a problem. Not like ya ta drink this much. I reckon ya banjo'd, so ya are.

JoAnne Kenrick

Devlin's Quotes #197152
#69. There was no studio involved when we made 'Stargate.' It was financed through Le Studio Canal+ in France and, after the film was finished, it was sold to MGM. When the film was a success, MGM decided to do a television series based on the movie.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #154930
#70. The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In both cases, the increased level of abstraction demands greater effort on the part of anyone who wants to understand the work.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #127432
#71. All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #127170
#72. I got quite bored, serving in the bar. Since I was there, the customers wouldn't talk about women, and with half their subject matter denied them, it was: horses, silence; horses, silence.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #125578
#73. Yesterday I dared to struggle. Today I dare to win.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #123511
#74. You're in my head, you're in my heart, and I've lost so much already. I can't lose you too.

Ivy Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #98371
#75. Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to do with mathematics than the notes on a page of music. They simply represent the experience.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #87082
#76. Shakespeare used the word 'flush' to indicate plenty of money. Well, just remember there was only one Shakespeare, and he was the only one that had a right to use that word in that sense . You'll never be a Shakespeare, there will never be such another - Nature exhausted herself in producing him.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #38897
#77. The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment.

Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #647257
#78. Pride goeth before the fall ... but you've already fallen, haven't you?

Melissa Marr

Devlin's Quotes #945359
#79. I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and beautifully expressed mathematical arguments are all the results I need.

Keith Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #942700
#80. It is very easy to learn how to speak and write correctly, as for all purposes of ordinary conversation and communication,

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #929295
#81. The judges of England have rarely been original thinkers or great jurists. Many have been craftsmen rather than creators.

Patrick Devlin, Baron Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #922523
#82. TEN GREATEST ENGLISH POETS Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning. TEN GREATEST ENGLISH ESSAYISTS Bacon, Addison, Steele, Macaulay, Lamb, Jeffrey, De Quincey, Carlyle, Thackeray and Matthew Arnold.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #879187
#83. I would love it if the whole 'Godzilla' franchise was revitalized for a new generation.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #878176
#84. It wasn't long before people discovered the final horrors of letting an urchin into Parliament.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #868547
#85. The Irish aren't great singers, but they have great songs.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #859590
#86. I want you, Devlin. Maybe just for a night. Maybe for something more. I don't know if this attraction between us will go anywhere. All I know is I can't deny I want you.

Olivia Cunning

Devlin's Quotes #852573
#87. Every person of intelligence should be able to use his mother tongue correctly. It only requires a little pains, a little care, a little study to enable one to do so, and the recompense is great.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #804935
#88. Filmmaking is a real democracy - it's up to the audience to vote with their tickets.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #703292
#89. My function in life is not to be a politician in Parliament: it is to get something done.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #949721
#90. My dashing Lieutenant Douglas, I will never be ruled by that which I do not do of my own free will, and if we are to build a family, I had better start out as I mean to go on. Anything less would be dishonest, and if you do not appreciate it, you may feel free to plant your affections elsewhere."

Barbara Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #607222
#91. I went to a very militantly Republican grammar school and, under its influence, began to revolt against the Establishment, on thesimple rule of thumb, highly satisfying to a ten-year-old, that Irish equals good, English equals bad.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #601278
#92. We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #592480
#93. One American said that the most interesting thing about Holy Ireland was that its people hate each other in the name of Jesus Christ. And they do!

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #589411
#94. Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism ... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #571792
#95. Tongue in cheek, Donald said, "Milord, I thought she was safely ensconced in your tent. How is it that you keep misplacing her?

Delilah Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #541610
#96. But I make a distinction between the doctrines of the Church, which matter, and the structure invented by half a dozen Italians who got to be pope and which is of very little use to anybody.

Bernadette Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #535516
#97. You'll win her with ya Irish charm and green eyes, so ya will. Now drink up ya coffee and stop whining like a baby. This girl's gonna have a fantastic night tomorrow. She's gonna worship da ground ya c**k drags on.

JoAnne Kenrick

Devlin's Quotes #513710
#98. To use a big word or a foreign word when a small one and a familiar one will answer the same purpose, is a sign of ignorance. Great scholars and writers and polite speakers use simple words.

Joseph Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #470679
#99. When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead. It's a dead genre. No one wants to see science fiction anymore.' And I had to go and raise the money independently to make that movie.

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #460014
#100. I know I screwed up my 'Godzilla.'

Dean Devlin

Devlin's Quotes #454918

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