Top 100 William Peter Quotes
#2. You can spare yourself discomfort by keeping your distance, by remaining safely aloof, by maintaining what are largely superficial friendships. But if you do, you will deprive yourselves, and others, of one of the greatest opportunities for learning and for personal growth. - William Bowen
Peter Slevin
#3. William the Conqueror's campaigns against the rebels have usually been dealt with very briefly and resistance has been summarily dismissed as ineffective, largely because in the end, that resistance was overcome in a singularly brutal manner. Even
Peter Rex
#4. Regan's pulse was astonishing. It hammered at a speed too rapid to gauge. Across the bed, Merrin reached out calmly and with the end of his thumb traced the sign of the cross on Regan's vomit-covered chest. The words of his prayer were swallowed up in the poundings.
William Peter Blatty
#5. Didn't," Chris told him. "She was also sedated when last we spoke?" "Yes, she was." "I thought I saw her at her window that day." "Well, you're mistaken." "It could be. Perhaps so. I'm not sure." "Listen, why are you asking all this?" "Well, a clear
William Peter Blatty
#7. You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home ... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism ...
William Peter Blatty
#8. Merrin began buttoning up the cassock. "Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the demon." The demon!
William Peter Blatty
#9. One more thing about evolution. They keep saying that it's chance, all chance, and that it's simple. Billions of fish kept
William Peter Blatty
#10. That's right. He was smacking his lips a little, that's all." "He was smacking his lips a little?" "Well, yes." Kinderman
William Peter Blatty
#12. God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
William Peter Blatty
#13. Out, Himmler! Out of my sight! Go and visit your club-footed daughter! Bring her sauerkraut! Sauerkraut and heroin, Thorndike! She will love it! She will - !
William Peter Blatty
#15. Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth.
William Peter Hamilton
#16. Karras showered and then dressed in a T-shirt and trousers. Sitting down to his desk, he discovered a carton of Camel non-filters, and beside it a key that was labeled LANGUAGE LAB and another
William Peter Blatty
#18. Your mother's in here, Karras. Would you like to leave a message? I'll see that she gets it.
William Peter Blatty
#19. I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's.
William Peter Blatty
#21. Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke.
William Peter Blatty
#22. A leader gets people to do things they wouldn't do in their right minds. A manager tells him he spent too much money doing it.
William Peter Grasso
#23. Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.
William Peter Blatty
#25. He started his engine and turned on the windshield wipers in time to see a tall old man stepping out of the cab. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless under a misty streetlamp's glow, staring up at a window of the house like a melancholy traveler frozen in time. As
William Peter Blatty
#26. Yes, of course," said Kinderman. "It's very strange. But then it leaves us
William Peter Blatty
#28. Never was he conscious that his thoughts were prayers; only that the prayers were never answered.
William Peter Blatty
#29. St. Ignatius was second in succession to St. Peter as bishop of Antioch. He was a student of Christ's most beloved apostle John. So what Ignatius wrote pulses with the authority Christ gave to Peter and the heart John could hear beating at the Last Supper.
George William Rutler
#30. As far as God goes, I am a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil
well, that's something else.
William Peter Blatty
#31. I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.
William Peter Blatty
#32. I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
William Peter Blatty
#33. He could not bear to search for Christ again in stench and hollow eyes; for the Christ of pus and bleeding excrement, the Christ who could not be. In
William Peter Blatty
#34. Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
William Peter Blatty
#37. Bantam Press. And they commissioned me to write it. And when that was completed, they sold it to Harper and Row. And then I put it out to every movie studio in town. And they all turned it down.
William Peter Blatty
#38. A newspaper is a private enterprise owing nothing whatsoever to the public, which grants it no franchise. It is therefore affected with no public interest.
William Peter Hamilton
#40. What book had this girl read that had enabled her unconscious mind to simulate
William Peter Blatty
#41. I'm not saying I'm against evolution. It's okay. Here's the story on reptiles, however. Think this over. They come up on
William Peter Blatty
#42. It is as though we are understanding now what (William) Blake intuited, the senses were, in Eden, spread over the whole being. It might seem, then, that our bodies still live in Eden, but our minds refuse to know it.
Peter Redgrove
#43. It was a green stone head of the demon Pazuzu, personification of the southwest wind.
William Peter Blatty
#44. How many husbands and wives must believe they have fallen out of love because their hearts no longer race at the sight of their beloveds!
William Peter Blatty
#45. We use concepts like "consciousness"
"mind"
"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
William Peter Blatty
#46. The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.
William Kircher
#47. I have never known a great trader, with his first reputation established as a bear operator, who did not either turn bull or drop out of the market altogether.
William Peter Hamilton
#49. I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.
William Peter Blatty
#50. Even if I hadn't been cast as Doctor Who, my acting would probably have been influenced by William Hartnell or Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, and all of the other guys. Because those were the actors that I really watched every moment of, as opposed to Laurence Olivier.
Peter Capaldi
#51. He thought of death in its infinite groanings, of Aztecs ripping out living hearts and of cancer and three-year-olds buried alive and he wondered whether God was alien and cruel, but then remembered Beethoven and the dappling of things and "Hurrah for Karamazov" and kindness. He
William Peter Blatty
#52. Peter, you're not crazy," William said. "Nobody's really crazy. That's just a word. Isn't it, Torey? Just a word. And nobody's a word.
Torey L. Hayden
#53. He dared not love again and lose. That loss was too great, that pain too keen.
William Peter Blatty
#54. And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence.
William Peter Blatty
#55. Unlike the weak, the strong neither give up nor are driven by pain into rash or stupid behavior. They don't like pain any more than anyone else, but they are not willing to settle for short-term relief if it means reducing their options later. They don't rob Peter to pay Paul, they face reality now.
William Glasser
#56. For days or even weeks. It isn't rare to find destructive, even criminal behavior. There's such a big change, in fact, that two or three hundred years ago people with temporal lobe disorders were often considered to be possessed by
William Peter Blatty
#57. Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness ... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
William Peter Blatty
#60. All-good, like the vain, capricious, cruel God of Job? With all of eternity at His disposal, what fiendish new tortures might He not devise? A limited
William Peter Blatty
#62. I tried to make every bit of it as creepy as I could. And I had the same response you do. I feel the same way. The hospital scenes, that procedure was so real.
William Peter Blatty
#63. Chris made a telephone call to her doctor in Los Angeles to ask him for a referral to a local psychiatrist for Regan.
William Peter Blatty
#64. The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.
William Peter Blatty
#65. The names of the English have changed. Before the invasion of William I the common names were those such as Leofwine, Aelfwine, Siward and Morcar. After the Norman arrival these were slowly replaced by Robert, Walter, Henry and of course William.
Peter Ackroyd
#67. Adieu, sucky speed-reading critics and reviewers!"
Terry Dare, gothic author in Blatty's book "Elsewhere", just before he crosses over.
William Peter Blatty
#68. My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#69. Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.
William Peter Blatty
#70. She watched as a beer truck lumbered by with a clink of quivering warm, wet promises.
William Peter Blatty
#72. The sun sinks to rise again; the day is swallowed up in the gloom of night, to be born out of it, as fresh as if it had never been quenched.
William Peter Blatty
#74. There, you see? I didn't curse. Don't you agree that I handled the situation demurely?
William Peter Blatty
#76. At the edge of his dreams, there was often a sound like the faint, distant cry of someone in distress, and for minutes after waking, he would feel the anxiety of some duty unfulfilled.
William Peter Blatty
#77. Peter
Swirling dreams
Dragons knew
Touching life to win
Deep inside many other worlds
Where should we begin?
William O'Brien
#78. What I hope is that I don't just become 'Peter from 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.' I want to try and do something else to be a good actor and a respected actor.
William Moseley
#79. The burnished rays of the setting sun flamed glory on the clouds of the western sky before shattering in gold and vermilion dapples on the darkening waters of the river. Once Karras met God in this sight. Long ago. Like a lover forsaken, he still kept the rendezvous.
William Peter Blatty
#80. Sharon shook her head. "He's never come here," she said. "And besides, he was in Boston that night at some convention." "He's a salesman?" asked Kinderman. "A lawyer.
William Peter Blatty
#82. The old priest Peter Gilligan
Was weary night and day;
For half his flock were in their beds,
Or under green sods lay.
William Butler Yeats
#83. He drank and behaved outrageously because it was expected of him: he was living up to his legend.
William Peter Blatty
#87. They Said, "what sign can you give us to see, so that we may believe you?" - John 6: 30 - 31
You do not believe although you have seen... - John 6: 36 - 37
William Peter Blatty
#88. But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise swallow, like maybe lima beans.
William Peter Blatty
#89. It's all ka-ka, saying mind is really brain. Sure, my hand is in my pocket. Is my pocket my hand? Every wino on M Street knows a thought is a thought and not some cells or chazerei going on in the brain. They know that jealousy is not some kind of game from Atari.
William Peter Blatty
#90. The love had grown cold, and in the night he heard it whistling through the chambers of his heart like a lost and gently crying wind.
William Peter Blatty
#92. Carrot-and-stick reinforcement' the behaviorists are telling us is needed for this bird to carry out these operations, thirteen different types of construction jobs? B. F. Skinner did a very good thing: in World War
William Peter Blatty
#93. For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love.
William Peter Blatty
#94. We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops
which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depth of desolation, never to despair.
William Peter Blatty
#97. I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.
William Peter Blatty
#98. I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.
William Peter Blatty
#99. Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time without you.
William Peter Blatty
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