Quote

The colossal might of wickedness: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

Gregory Maguire

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Gregory Maguire
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 9
Novelist
Writer
Albany
New York
Might
Massively
Much
Colossal
Love
Bedtime
Wickedness
Elsewhere
Breakfast
Comes
Doe
Locate

More quotes by Gregory Maguire

Image
His avenging angel had come to call him home. A suicide was waiting for him back in his own world, and by now he ought to have learned enough to get through it successfully.
Gregory Maguire
Image
And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.' Did she ever come out?' Not yet.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?
Gregory Maguire
Image
Small steps to the madhouse still get us there at last
Gregory Maguire
Image
I never use the words HUMANIST or HUMANITARIAN, as it seems to me that to be human is to be capable of the most heinous crimes in nature.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate, said Elphaba. See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she organizes her face to say, Pardon dear, did you say something?
Gregory Maguire
Image
...I dabble in causes and effects.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Approval is overrated...Approval and disapproval alike satisfy those who deliver it more than those who receive it. I don't care for approval, and I don't mind doing without.
Gregory Maguire
Image
From torched skyscrapers, men grew wings.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.
Gregory Maguire
Image
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?
Gregory Maguire
Image
Starlight and comet tails burned the tips of endless grass below into hammered silver. Like thousands of tapers in the chapel, just blown out but still glowing. If one could drown in the grass...it might be the best way to die.
Gregory Maguire
Image
For fun? Maybe evil is an art form.
Gregory Maguire
Image
It’s the place of the story, beginning here, in the meadow of late summer flowers, thriving before the Atlantic storms drive wet and winter upon them all.
Gregory Maguire
Image
... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I hate to be obvious, added the Scarecrow, but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.
Gregory Maguire
Image
I learned failure early and mastered it.
Gregory Maguire
Image
Even God used silence as a strategy.
Gregory Maguire
Image
My job is to protect you, Lady Glinda even if you are loosing your mind.
Gregory Maguire