#devil

One should fight like the devil the temptation to think well of editors. They are all, without exception - at least some of the time, incompetent or crazy. ↗

— John Gardner

#devil #editors #exception #fight #incompetent

Heaven sends us good meat, but the Devil sends cooks. ↗

— David Garrick

#devil #good #heaven #meat #sends

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in. ↗

— Larry Gelbart

#died #had #put #television #vaudeville

Not entirely fair?" His voice became that of the inferno: a rushing, booming howl of icy evil that flew around the great cavern, as swift and cold as the Wendigo on skates. "I am Satan, also called Lucifer the Light Bearer..." Cabal winced. What was it about devils that they always had to give you their whole family history? "I was cast down from the presence of God himself into this dark, sulfurous pit and condemned to spend eternity here-" "Have you tried saying sorry?" interrupted Cabal. "No, I haven't! I was sent down for a sin of pride. It rather undermines my position if I say 'sorry'! ↗

— Jonathan L. Howard

#devil #humor #johannes #necromancer #family

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the earth as well as God. ↗

— Warren Jeffs

#earth #god #necessary #representation #should

You slam a politician, you make out he's the devil, with horns and hoofs. But his wife loves him, and so did all his mistresses. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#did #him #his #horns #loves

I'm not subject to their rise and fall because I'm not accepted by them, so I have my own little curve going on. A lot of it is because of how much I play, I think I connect like when all you had was Vaudeville, I think I have an audience by performing a lot! ↗

— Leo Kottke

#audience #because #connect #curve #fall

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot. ↗

— Guillermo del Toro

#devil #felt #i #loved #neurotic

Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk. ↗

— Tom Waits

#drunk #god #just #know #you

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him. ↗

— Dan Totheroh

#better #course #devil #fixes #gets