Quotes of Vampire - somelinesforyou

“ Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ The vampire is an outsider. He's the perfect metaphor for those things. He's someone who looks human and sounds human, but is not human, so he's always on the margins. ”

- Anne Rice

“ Listen to them. Children of the night. What music they make. ”

- Bela Lugosi

“ What the hell was I doing standing in the middle of a cave, in the dark, surrounded by wererats, quoting Dr. Seuss, and trying to kill a one-thousand-year-old vampire? ”

- Laurell K. Hamilton

“ As most people know, I am a vampire, so I have no reflection. Every day, I paste a picture of someone else on the mirror. So this morning I combed George Clooney's hair; yesterday it was Brad Pitt's. ”

- Meat Loaf

“ How do we seem to you? Do you find us beautiful, magical? Our white skin, our fierce eyes? "Drink" you ask me, do you have any idea of the thing you will become? ”

- Anne Rice

“ The good news is that we are making progress. The bad news is that we're doing too little and moving much too slowly. ”

- Sam Nunn

“ They had forgotten the first lesson, that we are to be powerful, beautiful, and without regret. ”

- Anne Rice

“ I've always had a fascination for animals. I loved watching them, and even then I thought of them as beings rather than pets. I call it a birth affect! ”

- Tippi Hedren

“ Evil is a point of view. God kills indiscriminately and so shall we. For no creatures under God are as we are, none so like him as ourselves. ”

- Anne Rice

“ The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullsh*t. ”

- Richard Pryor

“ I'm a vampire, babe,suckin' bloodfrom the earthI'm a vampire, baby,suckin' bloodfrom the earth.Well, I'm a vampire, babe,sell you twenty barrels worth.Good times are comin'. ”

- Neil Young

“ They hover alive in the space about me, vampires of thought, drinking the life of my soul. Shadows, flung into space by sharp corners, breaking off at unknown angles, falling on concrete floors, climbing black walls. ”

- Chester Himes

“ Eating animals by humans is thought to be as natural as sucking blood is for vampires. The argument is quite explicit: "Do what it is your nature to do," argues Lestat: "This is but a taste of it. Do what it is your nature to do." This claim seems to sum up the dilemma of both vampires like Louis and mortal vegetarians like myself who would rather live without killing… ”

- Andrew Linzey

“ But first, on earth as vampire sent,Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent,Then ghastly haunt thy native place,And suck the blood of all thy race;There from thy daughter, sister, wife,At midnight drain the stream of life;Yet loathe the banquet which perforceMust feed thy livid living corpse. ”

- Lord Byron

“ The vampire does appear in literature right at the time the Reformation is gaining ascendancy, and he certainly does represent the old Catholic Europe. I'm sure my own vampires are seen as embodying the magic of my childhood Catholicism. They have the power of saints… ”

- Anne Rice

“ I think the vampire represents somebody who's transcended time and transformed himself into an immortal and becomes like a dark saint — a being with all the powers that transcend the corruptible. He represents the longing for immortality and freedom… ”

- Anne Rice

“ Sudden as a knife you thrustinto my sorry heartand strong as a host of demons came,gaudy and libertine,to make in my corrupted mindyour bed and bedlam there;Beast, who bind me to you closeas convict to his chains. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood. ”

- Bette Davis

“ O Regan, she hath tied Sharp-toothed unkindness, like a vulture, here. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker. ”

- Malcolm X

“ Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, living the more, the more labor it sucks. ”

- Karl Marx

“ The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman. ”

- Theda Bara

“ Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense. ”

- Calvin Trillin

“ When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire. ”

- Angelina Jolie

“ The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperment of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. ”

- Emil Cioran

“ Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely. ”

- Laurell K. Hamilton

“ Vampires always order hot drinks. They aren't going to drink them; but they can feel the warmth and smell them if they're hot, and that is so good. ”

- Anne Rice

“ Vampires pretending to be humans pretending to be vampires... How avant-garde! ”

- Anne Rice

“ I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too. ”

- Laurell K. Hamilton
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