“The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen.” FirstsStillsShowsEyeBehindsHellSawsFeetHugeRedProductionsSmokeNosesMeatHis EyesBats Author:Simon Taylor-Davis
“Stephen King is open about the fact that he continues to learn the craft, and if King hasn't got it figured out yet, what the hell hope have the rest of us got?” IfsFactsHellKingsCrafts Author:Marcus Sakey
“I'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.” GuyGoalHellMountainSheerGoatsGoal Oriented Author:John Darnielle
“When I was about five my dad built a stage for me in our basement. A full stage, with a curtain, a backdrop and a dressing room. There were three colored spotlights - a red one, a white one, and a blue one. Blue was for nighttime scenes, and red was for when we were in hell. If the neighborhood kids wanted to use the stage, they had to incorporate me into the play.” IfsPlayUseKidsWantedThreeWhiteRoomsHellFiveStageDadSceneBuiltRedBlueMy DadNeighborhoodCurtainsDressingsSpotlightBasementsNighttimeDressing RoomsBackdrop Author:Paul Reubens
“I failed everything in school. I left when I was 13 because I had no comprehension of what the hell they were talking about up there at the blackboard. I must have that ADD thing. But, listening to people I thought, that's wonderful to be able to tell a story.” PeopleStoriesAbleSchoolLeftTalkingHellWonderfulListeningAddComprehensionBlackboard Author:Malachy McCourt
“When I'm hell-bent on something, there's no way around it. I can be a very stubborn.” WayI CanHellBentStubborn Author:Jeremy Scott
“It's not fear that keeps me up. I mean, every generation has thought, this is the worst generation; the world's going to hell in a hand basket. The reality is, people are living longer, and they're living better.” PeopleWorldMeanHandsRealityHellGenerationsWorstBasketsLiving Better Author:Juan Enriquez
“I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.” StoriesInspirationDarkDealsHellLoversVariousMythologyTalesVersionsGreekNorse Author:Michael Boatman
“If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion.” IfsThinkingWayGivingMindHumansWellsChristianNaturalClassHellTeacherComfortOkayAidsPhysicsFringeAlrightLunaticHuman ThoughtPerfectly NaturalScience TeacherScience Class Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“To me, when there's movies that are about, you know, guys named Hell Boy, and you know, the issue that they have with our movie that she doesn't get an abortion, I mean, I think there's greater suspensions of disbelief.” ThinkingKnowsMeanGuyBoysHellIssuesGreaterAbortionDisbeliefSuspensionSuspension Of Disbelief Author:Seth Rogen
“SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.” Would BeHellFireBuildingHundredCodeAcresSweatshopsSohoFire Escapes Author:Carl Andre
“If you carry a gun, people will call you paranoid. That's ridiculous. If I have a gun, what in the hell do I have to be paranoid about?” PeopleIfsHellGunRidiculousGun ControlParanoidRifles Author:Clint Smith
“Now why the hell would I want to increase the volume of my ejaculation ? They can already hear me in the apartment next door.” WantNextSexHellDoorsIncreaseApartmentVolumeEjaculation Author:Donald Fagen
“Absent the rapid mobilization of climate advocates at every level - and the pooling of all their energy, creativity, and resources into a coordinated, no-holds-barred campaign - we will soon be crossing the threshold into climate hell.” EnergyLevelsCreativityHellResourcesClimateCampaignsGlobal WarmingRapidsAbsentCrossingsThresholdMobilization Author:Ross Gelbspan
“To hell with your cancer. I've been living with cancer for the better part of a year. Right from the start, it's a death sentence. That's what they keep telling me. Well, guess what? Every life comes with a death sentence, so every few months I come in here for my regular scan, knowing full well that one of these times - hell, maybe even today - I'm gonna hear some bad news. But until then, who's in charge? Me. That's how I live my life.” YearsWellsTodayHellKnowingMonthsNewsCancerSentencesInsightfulLiving My LifeBad NewsI Live My LifeDeath Sentence Author:Walter White
“Bridges - a master of subtle brilliance - plays the hell out of it. Not by showing off, but by going bone-deep into a character who only thinks he's running on empty. Crazy Heart may finally win him the Oscar that's unfairly eluded him and it offers the pleasure of watching a great actor at the peak of his form.” ThinkingHeartMayPlayCharacterRunningFormActorsWinningPleasureHellCrazyMastersOffersEmptyBonesBridgesSubtleOscarsBrillianceShowing OffGreat Actors Author:Peter Travers
“Hell, right now my only weapons were Obnoxious and Snark, and I intended to use them whenever possible.” UseHellRight NowWeaponsObnoxious Book:Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five Source: Touch of the Demon: Demon Novels, Book Five
“When life gives you lemons. . . You might as well shove 'em where the sun don't shine, because you sure as hell aren't ever going to see any lemonade.” GivingWellsMightSunHellShiningEmsLemonsLemonadeLife Gives You Lemons Author:Rob Thurman
“I tried to learn the languages - Italian, Spanish, and German - not to successfully. Working on a European set isn't a hell of a lot different from working on an American set.” DifferentLanguageHellItalian Author:Lee Van Cleef
“Art history is fine. I mean, that's a discipline. Art history is art history, and you start from the beginning and you end up in artist in time. But art is a little bit different. Art is a conversation. And if there's no conversation, what the hell is it about?” IfsMeanLittlesArtDifferentEndsArtistBitsHellFineDisciplineConversationLittle BitArt IsArt History Author:Lawrence Weiner
“I have a beautiful daughter, beautiful wife.They look like me, we all happy and I don't have no trouble. And I ain't that much in love with no woman to go through that hell - ain't no one woman that good.” LooksBeautifulHellWifeTroubleDaughterLike MeOne WomanBeautiful DaughterBeautiful Wife Author:Muhammad Ali
“The same people that are with me for not going to Vietnam because I saved them and their children.The same people will give me hell if I turn to them and say, 'let's free my people now'.They're with me on one part of my beliefs about the war, that's all. Not for my freedom.” PeopleIfsGivingChildrenWarTurnsBeliefHellGive MeSavedVietnam Author:Muhammad Ali
“I don't kid myself in thinking that I'm on the front lines. I know the people who are on the front lines. I mean there are people in some freakin' significant places making on-the-ground social front line change. I've marched. I've put feet on the ground for what I believe and what I'm against with no compromise. And there are people who are risking a whole hell of a lot more than me to make change, that's for damn sure.” PeopleThinkingKnowsBelieveMeanWholeKidsI BelieveSocialLinesHellFeetFrontsSignificantCompromiseDamnFeet On The GroundNo Compromise Author:Ben Harper
“The idea of the culture that you live in determining meaning in your art, though, is a very important aspect of what art would be about. But that had more to do with the kind of general understanding of what the hell you're doing, you know.” KnowsKindArtImportantIdeasWould BeCultureUnderstandingHellAspectDoing You Author:Robert Barry
“And when you see artists like Donald Judd and so forth being referred to as conceptual, what the hell does that mean? It's a totally meaningless term.” MeanDoeArtistTermHellMeaningless Author:Robert Barry
“I want to be able to open up the really good treasures of the Church and Christianity to people, and that's not going to be achieved by shouting at them to convert or they'll go to hell. It's about giving them an opportunity to reimagine Christianity.” PeopleWantGivingAbleOpportunityChurchChristianityHellTreasureShoutingGo To Hell Author:Alan Green
“People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."” PeopleKnowsDoeCharacterCareForgetHellEnvironmentTroubleFemaleGossipFemale CharactersLikeable Author:Mindy Kaling
“[Being role model ]is good for me mentally, selfishly, and it's also nice to try to do that for, especially, younger women. I mean, it's scary as hell. ... I worry about it, but I think it's a good thing to try to do.” ThinkingTryingMeanRolesWorryHellNiceModelsGood ThingsScaryRole Models Author:Mindy Kaling
“The heartbreak of runaway corruption, abuse of power and indefensible criminality by our government and media should, must inspire all good we-the-people Americans to wake the hell up from the embarrassing curse of apathy and start demanding constitutional accountability from our elected employees. How radically non-sheep of me.” PeopleShouldHeartGovernmentHellMediaInspireAbuseCorruptionCurseEmployeeAccountabilityApathySheepEmbarrassingAbuse Of PowerRunawayCriminality Author:Ted Nugent
“I have undeniable evidence that many have awakened as a result of my raising hell. Raising hell is SO American rock-and-roll. And of course even soulless wimps love killer music and my incredible guitar tone.” CoursesResultsHellRocksEvidenceGuitarIncrediblesToneKillersRock And RollAwakenedSoullessWimpsRaising HellHell Raising Author:Ted Nugent
“What the hell is social justice? What sort of fool can imagine income equality as dictated by bureaucrats and government thugs? I dare anyone to attempt to explain those drug-inspired fantasies in meaningful terms.” GovernmentSocialTermJusticeFantasyHellImagineFoolDrugSocial JusticeInspiredDareMeaningfulIncomeBureaucratsThug Author:Ted Nugent
“When I did The X-Files, there was certainly less of that because the script was as it was and it was such a wonderful script and it was quite complex and there wasn't a hell of a lot of improvising I could do to bring to the table, but I guess what I did bring was a sense of self and that the reason I was cast was because I did come across as someone who possibly was only human for a short time.” HumansSelfReasonHellWonderfulTablesComplexesScriptsCastsFilesSense Of SelfShort TimeImprovisingX Files Author:Rhys Darby
“When I started performing I was like, "Holy hell, how am I going to survive this?" I was giving it my all in 15 minutes but now I had to do it for two hours.” GivingTwoHoursHellMinutesHolyPerforming Author:John Leguizamo
“Brock [Lesnar] is one hell of a wrestler, and he's a big monster.” BigsHellMonstersWrestler Author:Bill Goldberg
“If you live up against train tracks, it can make your life a living hell.” IfsHellTrainTrackTrain Tracks Author:Ted Leo
“The West, both the elites (consciously) and ordinary people (sub-consciously), want Russia to go to hell; to disappear, drown, explode. It is because Russia is once again defending humanism all over the world.” PeopleWorldWantHellOrdinaryWestHumanismDisappearRussiaElitesOrdinary PeopleGo To Hell Author:Andre Vltchek
“Until you have a child, it's very tempting to look at the state of the world and say, "To hell with it, in 50 years I won't be around anyway." But if you have a child you don't say that, because even if you're not around in 50 years, your children presumably will be, and maybe even their children. You think of yourself as responsible to future generations in a whole different way.” IfsThinkingWorldWayYearsLooksChildrenDifferentStatesWholeHellGenerationsResponsibleOur ChildrenYour ChildrenDifferent WaysFuture GenerationThink Of YouTempting Author:Marianne Williamson
“I feel bad for these preachers man, they're on their jets doing all of that stuff because there's a lot of people living hell on earth.” PeopleMenFeelsEarthStuffHellPreacherJetHell On Earth Author:Ryan Montgomery
“Recep Tayyip Erdogan would be considered a gradualist. He is not decreeing Sharia as the law of the land tomorrow. He’s making gradual steps to desecularize the country so it’s not a shock to everyone, doesn’t cause all kinds of panic in the western world and the Europe world. And ISIS might be growing impatient. Even though they’ve been allied over oil and Syria, ISIS could be growing impatient. Then they see the deal with Israel, and they say, “To hell with this.”” WorldKindCountryMightWould BeLawCausesDealsStepsHellGrowingLandTomorrowEuropeWesternIsraelOilAll KindsShockPanicSyriaIsisImpatientWestern WorldShariaErdogan Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.” HellGreaterPrisonerNo Fear Author:Ben Jonson
“Knowing the truth about the hell-realms that animals have to endure, it would be wise of us to do our best now not to plant the karmic seeds that would cause us to be reborn as an animal in one of those hell realms.” Would BeCausesAnimalHellKnowingWisePlantEndureSeedsRealmsBeing WiseRebornKnowing The Truth Author:Sharon Gannon
“Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.” SelfHumanityHellEgoWeaponsGreedFloodPlagueNarcissisticFaminePresumptionHoundsSpawn Author:Tom Robbins
“I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?"” PeopleHellHeardBandHeyRelyHey You Author:John Petrucci
“On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction.” WorldYearsTodayMovingHellConflictYears AgoDecadesDespiteThirtyHopefulSyriaThirty YearsRight Direction Author:Richard Branson
“There are so many famous people now that are not really gifted or talented at doing anything other than getting made up, putting on tight dresses, acting badly, getting married. I mean, what the hell? I don't know where we are going with this here in America. And we are setting a tone for the world, because everyone looks at what we do.” PeopleKnowsWorldLooksMeanMadeAmericaActingHellMarriedDressesSettingSettingsToneGiftedGetting MarriedTight DressesActing Badly Author:Debbie Allen
“I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.” KnowsLittlesMotherBitsHurtGriefHellLittle BitDiedWaveSurvivedIt HurtsPassed AwayRespiteDeep GriefMother Passed Away Author:Emily Saliers
“It's the end of the day where wives stay home and raise the kids and all that. That demeaning stuff? No more. Country club memberships, that's what you shoot for! To hell with that.” EndsCountryHomeKidsStuffHellWifeRaisesClubsThe End Of The DayMembershipDemeaningCountry Clubs Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Sure, we have an obstacle, ISIS. They can do great damage. They can do great damage and they scare the living hell out of everybody with good reason. But they are, instead of dealing with nation-states that are arranged against us, we're to deal with non-state actors that can do damage to us. But this is within our control. We are beginning to make genuine progress as to how we isolate them, how we take them out. We're in a situation - I mean, I just could go on. But I am - the only generic criticism I had is we're not talking about the possibilities.” MeanStatesReasonActorsNationsCan DoDealsTalkingSituationHellProgressPossibilityGoes OnCriticismObstaclesGenuineDamageScareIsisNot TalkingGeneric Author:Joe Biden
“One of the most painfully inauthentic ways we show up in our lives sometimes is saying "yes" when we mean "no," and saying "no" when we mean "hell yes."” WayMeanSometimesShowsHellOur LivesSaying NoSaying Yes Author:Brené Brown