Pastoral Resources

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

If I owned Marseilles and Hell, I'd rent out Marseilles and live in Hell.

A policeman, as you discover, has to put up with a hell of a lot of abuse. A man in any other line of work would nail a guy who laid that kind of abuse on him. I know I would.

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

There's a hell of a lot of horny people out there who are not being gratified in the way they should be.

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

It was hysterical going to work. I would just walk in and think, 'What in hell? Am I here? What's going on? I'm going to wake up in a minute. I'm in a dream.'

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a hell of a lot of overlapping.

TV's hard work. I don't know how the hell Angela Lansbury survived doing 'Murder, She Wrote' all those years. And sure, everyone wants to be Bruce Willis or George Clooney - they want to be in film for the range of characters you get to play.

There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Every man is his own hell.