Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 42

How many psychiatrists does it take to screw in a lightbulb?” “I don’t know. How many?” “Eight.” “Why?” “Oh, stop overanalyzing it.
Dennis Lehane
Maybe he didn’t really encourage me to do things, but he didn’t prevent me from doing them either. But after a while, I didn’t do things because I didn’t want him to think different about me. But the thing is, I wasn’t being honest. So, why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn’t really even know me?
Stephen Chbosky
They say it grows so cold up here in winter that a man’s laughter freezes in his throat and chokes him to death,” Ned said evenly. “Perhaps that is why the Starks have so little humor.
George R.R. Martin
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
George R.R. Martin
He who hurries through life hurries to his grave.
George R.R. Martin
I swear to you, sitting a throne is a thousand times harder than winning one.
George R.R. Martin
Fallibility in a leader is very trying. Isn’t it? They spill so much of other people’s blood.
James Clavell
I want to moan and writhe with you and I want to go up to you and kiss your mouth and pull you to me and say "I love you I love you I love you" while stripping. I want you so bad it stings.
Bret Easton Ellis
We don't fall in love, we fall in lust. We ascend to love.
Dean Cavanagh
Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?
Patrick McGrath
I can smell the sex on her. I hope she smells the love on me.
Ned Vizzini
Now and then, an inch below the water's surface, the muscles of his stomach tightened involuntarily as he recalled another detail. A drop of water on her upper arm. Wet. An embroidered flower, a simple daisy, sewn between the cups of her bra. Her breasts wide apart and small. On her back, a mole half covered by a strap. When she climbed out of the pond a glimpse of the triangular darkness her knickers were supposed to conceal. Wet. He saw it, he made himself see it again. The way her pelvic bones stretched the material clear of the skin, the deep curve of her waist, her startling whiteness. When she reached for her skirt, a carelessly raised foot revealed a patch of soil on each pad of her sweetly diminished toes. Another mole the size of a farthing on her thigh and something purplish on her calf--a strawberry mark, a scar. Not blemishes. Adornments.
Ian McEwan
I watched a lot of YouTube videos of cute geeky girls playing '80s cover tunes on ukuleles. Technically, this wasn't part of my research, but I had a serious cute-geeky-girls-playing-ukuleles fetish that I can neither explain nor defend.
Ernest Cline
I just wish Mary Elizabeth would ask me questions other than “What's up?
Stephen Chbosky
Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.
Françoise Sagan
And I'm not assuming and I'm not judging. I'm just being curious.
Ned Vizzini
How quickly we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story "Nightfall," about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove people mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen.
Roger Ebert
Curiosity is my great vice. I fear you have seen through to the heart of me, and now seek to exploit my weakness
George R.R. Martin
I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam
Aaron Sorkin
No, by God, he had no intention of going on like a blind man, plodding down a path of brainless, fruitless existence until old age or accident took him. Either he found the answer or he ditched the whole mess, life included.
Richard Matheson
Socrates told us, "the unexamined life is not worth living." I think he's calling for curiosity, more than knowledge. In every human society at all times and at all levels, the curious are at the leading edge.
Roger Ebert
The scholar's greatest weakness: calling procrastination research.
Stephen King
Why is it that when one man builds a wall, the next man immediately needs to know what's on the other side?
George R.R. Martin
We tend to forget that life can only be defined in the present tense.
Dennis Potter
How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?
Ray Bradbury
There are two ways of spreading light to be candle,or the mirror that reflects it.
Chetan Bhagat
Death, there will be death, aye. Your lordship lost a son at the Red Wedding. I lost four upon the Blackwater. And why? Because the Lannisters stole the throne. Go to King’s Landing and look on Tommen with your own eyes, if you doubt me. A blind man could see it. What does Stannis offer you? Vengeance. Vengeance for my sons and yours, for your husbands and your fathers and your brothers. Vengeance for your murdered lord, your murdered king, your butchered princes. Vengeance!
George R.R. Martin
You tell your brother he's gonna pay for that car in silver.
Neal Shusterman
I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.
William Goldman
I regretted what a serious teenager I'd been: There were no posters of pop stars or favorite movies, no girlish collection of photos or corsages. Instead there were paintings of sailboats, proper pastel pastorals, a portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt. The latter was particularly strange, since I'd known little about Mrs. Roosevelt, except that she was good, which at the time I suppose was enough. Given my druthers now, I'd prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding's wife, "the Duchess," who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook and avenged herself accordingly. Today I like my first ladies with a little bite.
Gillian Flynn
She could never take an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. The weak and flaccid parity would make her nearly puke. She wants an eye for a tooth, and a life for an eye.
Helen Zahavi
She felt like Captain Ahab, for the first time sighting his great white whale.
Stephen King
I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.
Stephen King
Bread and water will not break me, and if you choose to isolate me, I shall have only but more time to plot against my oppressors.
J.V. Hart
It's death and destruction I want to bring down upon House Lannister, not scorn. Jon said.
George R.R. Martin
Vengeance is a way of clinging to what we have lost. A wedge in the Last Door, and through the crack we can still glimpse the faces of the dead. We strain towards it with all our being, break every rule to have it, but when we clutch it, there is nothing there. Only grief.
Joe Abercrombie
Flies are the dead man's revenge.
George R.R. Martin
What do you want from me? Revenge? Sorry—we're all out of revenge today!
Clifford Odets
Don't be trying to give back pain for pain...You can't get even measures in business like this.
Larry McMurtry
Payback is a bitch, and the bitch is back.
Stephen King
Revenge may be exacted a hundred times over in one sleepless night. The impulse, the dreaming intention, is human, normal, and we should forgive ourselves. But the raised hand, the actual violent enactment, is cursed. The maths says so. There’ll be no reversion to the status quo ante, no balm, no sweet relief, or none that lasts. Only a second crime. Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation. It’s a reversion to constant, visceral fear.
Ian McEwan
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches civilisation.
Ian McEwan
It can happen sometimes, with those who brood on an injustice, that a taste for revenge can usefully combine with a sense of obligation.
Ian McEwan
Revenge,' he said, 'is a human invention. It serves no purpose.
John Ajvide Lindqvist
How very kind of her, ' I said. 'I must remember to send her a card.'I'd send her a card alright. It would be the Ace of Spades, and I'd mail it anonymously from somewhere other than Bishop's Lacey.
Alan Bradley
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine...And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.
Harlan Ellison
I don't like it, but my hands are tied. I just want you to know this: if I ever get the chance to betray you, I will. If the opportunity arises to pay you back, I'll take it. You'll never be able to trust me.
Darren Shan
Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.
J.K. Rowling
I will hurt you for this. I don't know how yet, but give me time. A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in your mouth, and you'll know the debt is paid.
George R.R. Martin
My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!
William Goldman
Revenge proves its own executioner.
John Ford
Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he'd heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound - that's what he'd heard.
John Irving
He thought that it was all over, finished, done with. Andrew had never yet had reason to observe the first tiny bubble of fermenting yeast, in which was contained an inevitable, alchemical transformation.
J.K. Rowling
I am a great husband because I am very afraid she may kill me
Gillan Flynn
How bad could things be if my hair was neat?
Jeff Lindsay
This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.
Neil Gaiman
But Vivien wasn't being given the chance to sow her wild oats. Speaking from a point of authority, it's best to get that shit out of the way when you are young.
Lisa Lutz
I'm turning into an old man. I own four pairs of oxfords, my stories get a little long winded, and my neighbors play their music too loud.
Christy Hall
She meant to write: "Is Christy here yet?"Auto Correct turned it into: "Is crazy here yet?"For once Auto Correct got it right.
Christy Hall
I mean. You put puppies in a store front, I will stop and giddily stare. Every. Single. Time.
Christy Hall