Madonnas Quotes & Sayings

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. — William Congreve

I have seen statues that would look stodgy beside her, I have seen painted Madonnas whose features would be coarse beside her pale luminous loveliness. — Philippa Gregory

There are no brunettes ... among Florentine Madonnas. — Michael Ondaatje

Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan. — Jimmy Buffett

I am frustrated by celebrities who decide to write children's books because they think it's easy. That drives me crazy. It's frustrating because it's unfair to children. Because they'll get a lot of attention, they'll get a lot of marketing budget and so on just because they're a celebrity - the Madonnas, the Ricky Gervaises, the Russell Brands. — John Boyne

But they keep saving me because they know I stand for something. They're just not sure what yet.
-The Pagoda — A.S. King

Due to another Eugene Williams , apparently, I have added Norm to my name here. Sorry Gene.I do not have 8 books on here, only 1 and how can I remove it? — Eugene Williams

The sky is blue,' he said, 'the grass is green.' Looking up, he saw that, on the contrary, the sky is like the veils which a thousand Madonnas have let fall from their hair; and the grass fleets and darkens like a flight of girls fleeing the embraces of hairy satyrs from enchanted woods. 'Upon my word,' he said [ ... ], 'I don't see that one's more true than another. Both are utterly false. — Virginia Woolf

I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas. — Morrissey

Instead of waiting for the right moment, BE the right moment. You won't be ready for anything if you aren't ready to be you. — Kaiden Blake

Every child needs a tragedy to become truly interesting. — Holly Black

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment. — Hunter S. Thompson

The Catholic Church has never really come to terms with women. What I object to is being treated either as Madonnas or Mary Magdalenes. — Shirley Williams

Only when the habit of one's consciousness to see in paintings bits of nature, madonnas and shameless nudes ... has disappeared, shall we see a pure painting composition. — Kazimir Malevich

What are Raphael's Madonnas but the shadow of a mother's love, fixed in permanent outline forever? — Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Madonnas got one big choice. Take a couple of years off and become a human being. — Sandra Bernhard

WHEN I LOOK UP again, the paintings in my foyer, my Madonnas, bring a mirthless smile to my lips. The idealization of motherhood. All of them gazing at their infants, or staring inauspiciously down at me. — E.L. James

Women tend to be categorized as Madonnas or whores. — Melissa Rosenberg

This notion of the centrality of the church ... could hardly be more pertinent to the perennial question of "Christian culture" and our evaluation of the great figures such as Calvin and Kuyper. Hearing the words "Christian culture" may evoke visions of godly emperors, medieval Madonnas, or Bach cantatas. None of which are really about the church. Or perhaps the phrase "Christian culture" resonates with contemporary Reformed buzzwords like "world and life view," "transformation," and "kingdom vision"
all of which, I fear, are often enlisted in the service of convincing Reformed youth that it is a mistake to think of the church as central to the Christian life. — David VanDrunen