Hell Quotations

Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell, no!

I'm not playing a role. I'm being myself, whatever the hell that is.

My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

Because I could dance, my folks went through hell so I could be in movies. But I didn't dance in pictures. I cried! At one point I had polio, which I believe was a result of the stress I felt in the studios.

At college age, you can tell who is best at taking tests and going to school, but you can't tell who the best people are. That worries the hell out of me.

Love without sex is still the most efficient form of hell known to man.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.

Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them just to make the music more of a sanctuary.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

I can make men follow me to hell.

Have you seen U2's live show? It's boring as hell. It's like watching CNN.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

Hell will freeze over before this CEO implements another employee benefit in this culture.

Hell, if I'd jumped on all the dames I'm supposed to have jumped on, I'd have had no time to go fishing.

Just knock hell out of it with your right hand.

Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

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

I always had a pretty good knack for raising hell

I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about.

I remember Michael dribbling at the top of the key. Everybody knew to just get the hell out of his way.

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.

Was I involved in selling drivers licenses to people illegally? Hell no I wasn't. Would I have tolerated it? Hell no.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile I caught hell for.

British people might wonder 'What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing 'Thor?' but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself doing this kind of film.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

I don't know about Heaven or Hell, but I do know that we are visited all the time by the spirits of those who affected us in life.

I've got the Jewish guilt and the Irish shame and it's a hell of a job distinguishing which is which.

No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.

It is so basic as to be mundane, but in disaster relief, all the good will in the world can go to hell in a hand basket if the logistics don't work. In Ethiopia at the best of times, the logistics are difficult. It is a huge country - about the same size as Texas, New Mexico and Oklahoma combined. It is also a transportation nightmare.

It is a culture voice, but it is a very American culture voice, and I am very used to English culture voice. So I had to work like hell to flatten those R's.

No comedian's wife thinks he's funny. The first few years of the marriage, maybe. I was funny as hell the first couple of years.

I can understand why those bands do it. It can be a hell of a lot of bloody fun. People are allowed to have a bit of fun after the age of 40, and a lot of them do need the money.

I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.

There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought.

Prisons don't rehabilitate, they don't punish, they don't protect, so what the hell do they do?

Women is fine once you got em pinned down, boss, but when they ain't pinned down they're hell.

I'd like just to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs, and had a hell of a time.

Ultimate Warrior had a hell of a gimmick, but wrestling is about so much more than that. You have to be consistent, work main events every night and have matches that people really believe in and want to see.

I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

That thing of hell and eternal punishment is the most absurd, as well as the most disagreeable thought that ever entered into the head of mortal man.

Because I was small, I was getting the hell kicked out of me playing football.

I didn't know who the hell I was. I was whoever they wanted me to be.

To many, Heathrow in August is a paradigm of Hell.

If I can't do something for the public good, what the hell am I doing?

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

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

The thing you realize as you get older is that parents don't know what the Hell they're doing and neither will you when you get to be a parent

It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also.

It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

I think there are a lot of rules for women. We have a lot of expectations and a lot of rules for women. So we're expected to march in a straight line, and when we don't, all hell breaks loose.

When she was running for election in 2006, I went to Missouri to campaign for Senator Claire McCaskill. She impressed the hell out of me and I fell in love with her mother Betty Anne who is a pistol!

Detroit turned out to be heaven, but it also turned out to be hell.

As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger, a pizza, good fries, a beer. I enjoy being comfortable and eating whatever the hell I like. It's a big thing for me, just having the freedom to be able to do that.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Every time you perform a magic trick, you're engaging in experimental psychology. If the audience asks, 'How the hell did he do that?' then the experiment was successful.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

I didn't know what the hell Charlie Parker was playing... I just liked the way he played.

There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

The remarks about my reaching the age of Social Security and coming to the end of the road, they jolted me. And that was good. Because I sure as hell had no intention of just sitting around for the rest of my life. So I'd whip out the paints and really go to it.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.

One thing Republican leaders, regardless of whether they love us or they hate us, have got to understand is there's no way in hell there will ever be another Republican president without the active engagement of the Tea Party masses and support of the Tea Party masses.

I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

There's nothing wrong with being gay. I have plenty of friends who are going to hell.

I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

Hawaii can be heaven and it can be hell.

Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

I certainly went to high school with some mean girls, and I would not wish that hell on anybody.

There was no club but the Hells Angels as far as I was concerned.

Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self place, for where we are is hell, And where hell is there must we ever be.

Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave?

Tragedy is a hell of a teacher. It's much too strict, but it's a hell of a teacher.

God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

What is the damnation of hell? To go with that society who have not obeyed His commands.

It struck me that what I'd heard about certain celebrities was true: they had It, whatever the hell It was. Star power isn't a myth; it is tangible and forceful.