Banish Quotes
109 Banish quotes by 96 unique authors
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Television screens saturated with commercials promote the utopian and childish idea that all problems have fast, simple, and technological solutions. You must banish from your…
— Neil Postman
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You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied…
— William Shakespeare
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I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was…
— Neil Gaiman
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Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
— Michael Pollan
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When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his…
— August Wilson
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your…
— August Wilson
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Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that…
— Virginia Woolf
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We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No…
— Michael Crichton
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People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Love is influenced by no consideration, recognizes no restraints of reason, and is of the same nature as death, that assails alike the lofty palaces…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I don’t have the time to devote to circles or covens. I have to fit things in when and where I can, in stolen moments…
— Erin Morgenstern
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It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Welcome Beauty, banish fear.
— Francesca Lia Block
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No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All…
— John Ruskin
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Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give!…
— William Arthur Ward
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We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
— David Sarnoff
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When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds…
— Michel de Montaigne
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If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.
— Diogenes
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I go to Spain a lot, in winter, for a blast of sunlight to banish the blues brought on by the Irish greys and drizzle.…
— Kevin Barry
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Emotions are products of our mind, and we can actually train ourselves to choose whether we banish or embrace them.
— Mariella Frostrup
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It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that…
— Arthur Henderson
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Let us banish fear.
— Carter G. Woodson
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Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your…
— August Wilson
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Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe.
— Benjamin Franklin
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He sees it in the juvenile street gangs, who live in fear of death and who propagate fear by inflicting death to banish fear. And…
— Ed McBain
Who Wrote These Banish Quotes
96 authors contributed a total of 109 Banish Quotes, led by these top contributors: