Quotes tagged ‘Paradise’

“We're in paradise. Let's live a little.”

— Neil LaBute, Anthony Salter, Donovan, Anthony Lee Medina, imdb.com

“Our dead friend used to say when she reached menopause the swamp cleared from her mind the sun shone brightly for the first time since girlhood she could think clearly things were outlined as if in lights a dog was a dog and a man was only a man ~ Imprisoned in the arms of Eros you relax you blur yo…”

— Alicia Suskin Ostriker, apmpodcasts.org

“Once upon a time, or maybe twice, there was an unearthly paradise called Pepperland. 80,000 leagues beneath the sea it lay, or lie. I'm not too sure.”

— Al Brodax, Jack Mendelsohn, Lee Minoff, Erich Segal, Narrator, Paul Angelis, imdb.com

“Trust me, it's paradise. This is where the hungry come to feed. For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind o…”

— John Hodge, Richard, Leonardo Dicaprio, imdb.com

“Conrad Shepard: One day we gonna all retire to some beach house in the Caribbean. Keeyon: Til some wrath of God type shit happens, and washes everything away in a tidal wave like those poor fuckers in Indonesia.”

— Jenji Kohan, Conrad Shepard, Romany Malco, imdb.com

“Don Corleone: We have known each other many years, but this is the first time you've come to me for counsel or for help. I can't remember the last time you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee, even though my wife is godmother to your only child. But let's be frank here. You never wanted my…”

— Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, Don Vito Corleone, Marlon Brando, imdb.com

“This is paradise, I’m tellin’ you. This town’s like a great big pussy just waitin’ to get fucked.”

— Oliver Stone, Tony Montana, Al Pacino, imdb.com

“Climbed up the tree of life, kicked out of paradise.”

— BØRNS, Lana Del Rey, open.spotify.com

“Paradise in your eyes. Green like American money”

— BØRNS, open.spotify.com

“Lois: That's right. She has two daddies. Reese: Two guys as your parents? That house has to be a dude's paradise.”

— Andrew Orenstein, Michael Glouberman, Reese, Justin Berfield, imdb.com

“In a hundred years, when there’s a million jerks riding around Manhattan drunk in limos, the west will seem like a paradise.”

— Kathryn Borel, Sam Brenner, Brian Boyle, Roger The Alien, Seth MacFarlane, imdb.com

“Ralph: With a divorcée, all you gotta do is establish a relationship. Richie: With a glass of water? Ralph: It's a start, Rich, it's a start. It gets you inside the house. Then, you charm your way into her private quarters. From there, you're just one subtle move away from paradise. Richie: You go f…”

— Bill Idelson, Ralph Malph, Donnie Most, imdb.com

“Sema is permitted for the pure servants of God, because their hearts are clean. They love for the sake of God, and their anger is for God; their hearts are strong. If my swearing and shouting ever reaches the ears of a hundred-year-old unbeliever, he turns into a believer. If they lightly touch the…”

— Shams Tabrizi, sufism.org

“A song's wink aligned me with joy. And a
tune paradise hums I came to know.”

— Hafiz of Persia, bbc.com

“I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.”

— Baron de Montesquieu, amazon.com

“Harold: I guess you'd prefer we listen to that punk rock music I've been reading about. You know those Sex Pistols? They spit on their audience! Yep, that's what I wanna do. Spend my hard earned money to be spit on. Now that's entertainment...Elvis didn't expectorate on his fans. Sam: No. But he die…”

— Judd Apatow, J. Elvis Weinstein, Harold Weir, Joe Flaherty, imdb.com

“My father one told me that the very word "paradise" meant garden, spelling out for me the four letters (pe resh dalet samech) of pardes, the Hebrew word for garden.”

— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com

“A little while ago I took a nap under an olive tree, and the color harmonies I saw were so touching. It's like a paradise you have no right to analyze, but you are a painter, for God's sake! Nice is so beautiful! Alight so soft and tender, despite its brilliance.”

— Henri Matisse, en.wikiquote.org

“It has in all ages been allowed that the communion of saints extends to those in paradise as well as those upon earth as they are all one body united under one Head.”

— John Wesley, amazon.com

“I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library.”

— Jorge Luis Borges, amazon.com