Grand Inquisitor Quotes

#1. My poem is called 'The Grand Inquisitor' - an absurd thing, but I want you to hear it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. The Great White Male is rap's Grand Inquisitor, its idiot questioner, its Alien Other no less than Reds were for McCarthy.

David Foster Wallace

#3. Some of my colleagues want to be The Anchorman on the Mount. Others see themselves as the Ace Reporter. Because of 60 Minutes, there's a whole herd of them determined to be The Grand Inquisitor and a heady number want only to be The Friendliest Anchor on the Block. At least one wants to be Jesus.

Linda Ellerbee

#4. Think of the cold Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov, or the monk who tries to eliminate all humor in The Name of the Rose, or the frowning Koran burners of Florida. Holier-than-thou people usually end up holier than nobody.

Richard Rohr

#5. Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#6. His mouth was the only bit of softness on him. Wide and sensual, lips parted slightly in his drugged state, his mouth was profanely beautiful.

Lara Adrian

#7. I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

Jan Brett

#8. One day the clean technique will come to my head

Alexei Yagudin

#9. Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

William Shatner

#10. There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

Frederick Lenz

#11. New Rule: Stop calling bagpipes a musical instrument. They're actually a Scottish Breathalyzer test. You blow into one end, and if the sound that comes out the other end doesn't make you want to kill yourself
you're not drunk enough.

Bill Maher

#12. Much blood has been spilled over words, and a great deal of it over the word 'God.' (125)

Jean-Yves Leloup

#13. Almost all life depends on probabilities.

Voltaire

#14. There is no more ceaseless or tormenting care for man, as long as he remains free, than to find someone to bow down to as soon as possible.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#15. As if she sensed me, her eyes opened and when her green ones found mine, I swear, it felt like someone hit the pause button on the universe and she was all I could see.

Ilsa Madden-Mills