“ Dada covers things with an artificial tenderness. It is snowing butterflies that have escaped from a prophet's head. ”
- Tristan Tzara- Copy
- 2.6K
“ Day of wrath that day of burning, Seer and Sibyl speak concerning, All the world to ashes turning. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 3.4K
“ The architect must be a prophet… a prophet in the true sense of the term… if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
- 1K
“ The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and driven into the desert, and so on. ”
- Noam Chomsky- Copy
- 1.9K
“ I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats of any kind, whether of jail or retribution, then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer, not the prophet who sacrified himself. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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“ He brings a gust of acrid provincial air to the ancient office. He is an angry young prophet rather than a smooth courtier. His verse is angular, savage, robust and very good. ”
- Philip Howard- Copy
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“ Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
- 777
“ In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I gotta tell you, it's hard for some of us to make a living these days. The days when my ancestors could serve as an archery blind, give revelations to prophets, and shelter elves are past. ”
- Fred Bush- Copy
- 1.7K
“ With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet. ”
- Georg C. Lichtenberg- Copy
- 2K
“ Visionary is a self-fulfilling prophet. Don't predict the future. Create it. ”
- Leland Kaiser- Copy
- 1.5K
“ It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 1.9K
“ The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving. ”
- John Milton- Copy
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“ "Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.". ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 3.8K
“ How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look? ”
- Bob Marley- Copy
- 737
“ If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. ”
- Isaac Bashevis Singer- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The words of the prophets are written/On the subway walls. ”
- Simon and Garfunkel- Copy
- 717
“ The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears. ”
- Bill Vaughn- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Dream manfully and nobly, and thy dreams shall be prophets. ”
- Edward Bulwer Lytton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. ”
- Umberto Eco- Copy
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