The Grand Inquisitor Quotes

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

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#2. 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

#3. I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and it had hope. And all of a sudden, I see that being dissolved, and I see, as a country, as a people, we are a republic. We are a democracy.

Craig T. Nelson

#4. That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound ... I'd say I'm the greatest heavyweight of all time, but pound for pound, I still say Sugar Ray Robinson was the greatest of all time.

Muhammad Ali

#5. Earl gave me his version of what happened and asked me not to suspend the umpires.

Lee MacPhail

#6. When it whoops, those rooms get as cold as a frigid woman with an ice cube up her works.

Stephen King

#7. The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable.

Adam Smith

#8. 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

#9. Judge a man not by his clothes, but by his wife's clothes."
-John Gregory

Anna Sofia Botkin

#10. My most enjoyable movie going experiences have always been going to a movie theater, sitting there and the lights go down and a film comes on the screen that you don't know everything about, and you don't know every plot turn and every character movement that's going to happen.

Christopher Nolan

#11. Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.

Josh Homme

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I support the view that free trade in goods and services is a win-win situation. I'm not so convinced that free flows of capital without restriction is a win-win situation.

Lee Kuan Yew

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#16. You will never convince me to betray my master!-Starkiller

Sean Williams