Devils Quotes

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(1970, when accepting the Screen Writers Guild Laurel Award) The blacklist was a time of evil, and no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil. Caught in a situation that had passed beyond the control of mere individuals, each person reacted as his nature, his needs, his convictions, and his particular circumstances compelled him to. There was bad faith and good, honesty and dishonesty, courage and cowardice, selflessness and opportunism, wisdom and stupidity, good and bad on both sides. When you who are in your 40s or younger look back with curiosity on that dark time, as I think occasionally you should, it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims. Some suffered less than others, some grew and some diminished, but in the final tally we were all victims because almost without exception each of us felt compelled to say things he did not want to say, to do things that he did not want to do, to deliver and receive wounds he truly did not want to exchange. That is why none of us - right, left, or center - emerged from that long nightmare without sin.

- Dalton Trumbo

(Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster expects to spend the next two years away from Old Trafford on loan. Foster joined The Red Devils earlier in the summer from Stoke City and was immediately shipped out to Watford on a season-long loan. The 22-year-old has impressed with The Hornets and looks like being groomed as the long-term successor to Edwin van der Sar at United. Having not played for Stoke before he signed for United, Foster is benefiting from the chance to sample regular football at Championship level. The shot-stopper believes he is likely to spend the 2006/07 season out on loan before making a claim for a place at Old Trafford.) Alex Ferguson told me it was best if I went out on loan and got another year`s experience and maybe even do the same next year, ... Then in two years` time we`ll assess the situation and, if I`ve progressed, he`ll give me a chance. Edwin has got a two-year contract so that`s the plan.

- Ben Foster

I never thought of it as God. I didn`t know what to call it. I don`t believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them.

- Gene Wilder

(on getting the part of Bethany in Dogma (1999)) When I read the script, I just said, "There`s no way anyone else is allowed to have this part". I thought it was extremely clever and it had very imaginative answers to all my childhood questions about angels and devils and the apostles and all that stuff.

- Linda Fiorentino

From the world of darkness I did loose demons and devils in the power of scorpions to torment.

- Charles Manson

The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent that he may fight only for his own interest. And here is the need of religion and its power, to bring in the principle of benevolence and love to men.

- John Randolph

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

- John Steinbeck

I don`t believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

- Max von Sydow

(On criticism of The Devils (1971)) It was very disturbing to make. I still haven`t got over it... Where do you draw the line? This is the way it happened - those nuns were used for political ends, toted round France as a side show for a year. Do you ignore the actual historical accuracy and the fact that the Church, the politicians and the aristocracy were corrupt? I get so angry with the opinion makers who class it with the sex films. If we ignore history because it was unpleasant we`re going to end up with nothing but nature films.

- Oliver Reed

(on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)) It was certainly the most difficult and the most strenuous part I have ever played. And I think, quite important.

- Oliver Reed

(on his role as Father Grandier in The Devils (1971)) You would think from the critics` hostility that Ken Russell had tried to pull off some obscene hoax. On the contrary, the film is, I think, an utterly serious attempt to understand the nature of religious and political persecution. It is not in any way exaggerated. If anything, the horrors perpetrated in Loudun in the 17th century were worse than Russell has chosen to show . . . the character of the priest was a marvelous one to act. Ken Russell`s brother-in-law is an historian and he helped me research Grandier`s life, with particular reference to his thesis in celibacy. The people of Loudun loved him. He walked among the plague victims and comforted them. I started to play him as a priest and realized that he was a politician.

- Oliver Reed

(on The Devils (1971)) It vividly shows a side of the church that was never scrutinized attentively or even less accepted. The film shows that the monarchy can be weak, that the church can be corrupt, that society can admit that it has a lot to learn. I think these kinds of things were hidden from audiences for a long time. The masses go to the movies, not the intellectual elites.

- Oliver Reed

(On public reaction to The Devils (1971)) I remember noticing the gleam in (Ken Russell`s) eye while everybody was working away on the set, so I knew something good was going on. What they said afterward was totally incredible. We were regarded as pornographers in Italy. We`d have been arrested if we went there.

- Oliver Reed

(on making The Devils (1971)) It was a difficult and tiring role. I don`t think anyone in their right mind would say that they had fun shooting that film. It wasn`t created with the intent of having fun or being pleasurable; on the contrary, it was analyzed acutely and made with extreme seriousness. It was definitely a film about a certain society and the things that society did. We tried to show that humans are diabolical or can be as diabolical as in the film. I didn`t have fun, it was four months of hard work and if anyone has the courage or the desire to sit his ass down on a firecracker and scream for four months with Ken Russell yelling in your ears, well . . .

- Oliver Reed

We are not angels. Nor are we the devils you have made us out to be.

- Slobodan Milosevic

My favorite NBA team are the houston rockets and favorite college team are the duke blue devils.

- Alan Pollock

Evil, and evil spirits, devils and devil possession, are the outgrowth of man`s inadequate consciousness of God. We must avoid thinking of evil as a thing in itself-a force that works against man or, against God, if you will.

- Alec Byrne

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

- Aly Byorick

I love devils.

- Amanda Gunter

It`ll be good for the Devils. Outside of this state, they say New Jersey doesn`t have a city to carry around the Stanley Cup, they have a parking lot instead,

- Annemarie Conroy

It was just one of those days for the Red Devils. When it comes down to crunch time, it`s about who`s most prepared. West had the same things happen to them. We just ran into a couple meat-grinders. We had probably one of the toughest districts in the state.

- Anthony Wei

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

- William Shakespeare

Devils can be driven out of the heart by the touch of a hand on a hand, or a mouth on a mouth

- Tennessee Williams

Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.

- Nelson DeMille

'¦for when men labor they keep out of mischief. You remember the old proverb--An idle mind is the Devils workshop...

- George Q. Cannon

A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but changes to a golden bronze as you temper it with cream that never cheated, but was real cream from its birth, thick, tenderly yellow, perfectly sweet, neither lumpy nor frothing on the Java: such a cup of coffee is a match for twenty blue devils and will exorcise them all.

- Henry Ward Beecher