Miscavige Quotes

#1. Miscavige keeps a number of dogs, including five beagles. He had blue vests made up for each of them, with four stripes on the shoulder epaulets, indicating the rank of Sea Org Captain. He insists that people salute the dogs as they parade by. The dogs have a mini-treadmill where they work out.

Lawrence Wright

#2. Koppel won an Emmy for that show. Miscavige took credit for it, saying, "I got Ted the Emmy." He even had a replica of an Emmy made and placed in the Officers Lounge at Gold Base. But he never went on television again.

Lawrence Wright

#3. However, twelve former Sea Org members told me that Miscavige had assaulted them; twenty-one have told me or testified in court that they have witnessed one or more assaults on other church staff members by their leader.

Lawrence Wright

#4. Waiting around to be saved is like waiting to die and I have done more of both than anyone else in the room.

Courtney Summers

#5. I believe that music offers us possibilities for analysis, at least in my case, more profound in many ways, but at the same time that profundity is an accessible profundity that has atemporal repercussions.

Bocafloja

#6. It's alright to be Goliath but always act like David.

Phil Knight

#7. Ugliness is more inventive than beauty. Beauty always follows certain camps. I think it's more amusing - ugliness - than beauty.

Umberto Eco

#8. The Heart of Fairyland is a story

Catherynne M Valente

#9. Of course, the tricky thing about these little questions was that, once I started asking them, it was hard to stop.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#10. I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.

Artur Schnabel

#11. When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

Alexander Pope

#12. Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#13. In times of shrinking expectations, ... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

Oscar Handlin

#14. Doubtless any horoscope seems "true" if it tells that you are highly attractive to the opposite sex and your worst fault is generosity.

George Orwell

#15. sometimes the best way to get out of a slump is to get a good hump!" "Yes!

R.S. Grey

#16. I love Yamaha Clavinovas. I have them at home, in the studio and on tour with me. I find them ideal for all sorts of things: silent practice with headphones at home; writing; arranging and ... just playing the blues!

Jools Holland

#17. Scientology always has been a game of power and control. L. Ron Hubbard was the ultimate con man, and it's hard to figure out how much of Scientology was an experiment in brainwashing and controlling people, and how much of it was truly intended to help people.

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#18. I don't think the area of Jerusalem should be part of a Jewish state; it belongs to all people, to Christians and Muslims and the Jewish people.

Patti Smith

#19. You can be quiet and go back to kissing me, or you can leave.

Kiera Cass

#20. My experience in growing up in Scientology is that it is both mentally and at times physically abusive,

Jenna Miscavige Hill

#21. People keep saying, How'd you get power? Nobody gives you power. I'll tell you what power is. Power in my estimation is if people will listen to you. That's it.

David Miscavige

#22. If you want to know what an ultimate goal would be, of course it would be utter peace.

David Miscavige