My monthly collection of favorite quotes I encountered. In word form.
“Who
knows? Maybe you can stare too hard at something, huh? Drain out the virtue,
suck out the living juice. You shoot the great places and the pretty people,
all those girls and boys. Shoot 'em dead."
-Orson
Welles, The Other Side of the Wind
“Ghosts
are guilt, ghosts are secrets, ghosts are regrets and failings. But most times,
most times a ghost is a wish. Like a marriage is a wish. A marriage is a house.
A marriage can be haunted.”
-The
Haunting of Hill House (2018)
"No
egg on my face! Not a glob!"
“Somebody
get me a tie! I don't care what kind, it sure as hell better be red!”
“I'm
gonna kill you all kinds of dead.”
“How
can I get anything done with all this time on my hands?”
-The
Spirit (2008 film)
“The
justice system in the West has a lot of problems...but at least there are
rules. You have basic rights as the accused. You have your day in court. You
don’t have any rights when you’re accused on the Internet. And the consequences
are worse. It’s worldwide forever.”
-Ted
Poe
“If
you forget everything else but this one thing, you will be fine. If you forget
everything else but this one thing, you will be fine. If you forget everything
else but this one thing, you will be fine.”
“What
is it? The one thing?”
“You
have to figure that out for yourself.”
-The
Bad Batch
Capt.
Earl Armbruster: You almost tore that boy's arm off!
Action
Jackson: So? He had a spare.
Officer
Lack: Have you ever had your head forcibly rammed up your ass?
Officer
Kornblau: Uh, no
Officer
Lack: Well mark your calendar...that day's coming!
Peter
Dellaplane: You have this nickname - what is it, excitement, enthusiasm, esprit
de corps-
Action
Jackson: [cutting off Dellaplane] It's ACTION!
-Action
Jackson
“Realistic
people facing down extraordinary terrors...that is why I love these books. You
see as a kid I grew up in a very violent household. My father was a criminal,
sexual abuser and head of the local chapter of the KKK. He was a monster more
terrifying to me and my siblings than any vampire or werewolf. I began studying
martial arts on the sly when I was little and by the time I was fourteen I
decided it was time to throw down with him. He was bigger, older, more
experienced and stronger than me. He also underestimated me, which makes sense
because he’d been knocking me around my whole life. He was the unstoppable
monster and I was the helpless Everyman. When it was over the downstairs of our
house was wrecked and he was in intensive care. So, yeah, I like stories where
ordinary folk go up against apparently insurmountable odds. The mutant
cockroaches, flesh-eating zombies, killer crabs, and hungry sharks are
stand-ins for what really scares us. Sure, we all get that. Who doesn’t? That’s
what drives the genre for a lot of us—the thought that the monster in the dark
can be defeated. That we can defeat them.”
-Jonathan
Maberry
"This
town could use some new locals. Spruce up the gene pool a little bit."
"You
can never, ever have enough forks."
-Beethoven's
Fifth
“Evil
is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.”
"I
wanted love and goodness in this which is living death... It was impossible
from the beginning, because you cannot have love and goodness when you do what
you know to be evil, what you know to be wrong. You can only have the desperate
confusion and longing and the chasing of phantom goodness in its human form.”
“Don't
be a fool for the Devil, darling.”
“Consequently,
if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes
from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, and that we are God's
children also. There are no children of Satan, really.”
"New
Orleans, though beautiful and desperately alive, was desperately fragile...
Hurricanes, floods, fevers, the plague--and the damp of the Louisiana climate
itself worked tirelessly on every hewn plank or stone facade, so that New
Orleans seemed at all times like a dream in the imagination of her striving
populace, a dream held intact at every second by a tenacious, though
unconscious, collective will."
-Anne
Rice, Interview with the Vampire
“We’re
the bad batch. We’re not good. We’re bad.”
-The
Bad Batch
-B.P. Kasik/Phony McFakename
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