Quotes by Screenwriters - Page 75

She put others before herself and yet you hate her. What did she do to you?
Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz
Gilbert?"Some days I hate all those who know my name.
Peter Hedges
He came up flailing and sputtering and began to thrash his way toward the line of willows that marked the submerged creek bank. He could not swim, but how would you drown him? His wrath seemed to buoy him up. Some halt in the way of things seems to work here. See him. You could say that he's sustained by his fellow men, like you. Has peopled the shore with them calling to him. A race that gives suck to the maimed and the crazed, that wants their wrong blood in its history and will have it. But they want this man's life. He has heard them in the night seeking him with lanterns and cries of execration. How then is he borne up? Or rather, why will not these waters take him?
Cormac McCarthy
You are not doing this for her. You're doing it for yourself. Your life is not just about the people you love. It's also about the people you hate.
Tom Rob Smith
The Bloody-Nine opened his mouth, and shrieked out all of his bottomless love and his endless hate in one long wail.
Joe Abercrombie
What we love we may also despise.
Françoise Sagan
In that shrinking moment he discovered that he had never hated anyone until now. It was a feeling as pure as love, but dispassionate and icily rational.
Ian McEwan
He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.
Stephen King
He looked out of the window to think, because without a window he couldn’t think. Or Maybe it was the other way round: where there was a window, he automatically started to think. Then he wrote, ‘When I grow up, I am going to be happy.
Guus Kuijer
But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.
Allan Folsom
Mother's intentions were always sound, never muddy; I don't imagine that she troubled herself to feel very guilty. But the Rev. Mr. Merrill was a man who took to wallowing in guilt; his remorse, after all, was all he had to cling to-especially after his scant courage left him, and he was forced to acknowledge that he would never be brave enough to abandon his miserable wife and children for my mother. He would continue to torture himself, of course, with the insistent and self-destructive notion that he loved my mother. I suppose that his "love" of my mother was as intellectually detached from feeling and action as his "belief" was also subject to his immense capacity for remote and unrealistic interpretation. My mother was a healthier animal; when he said he wouldn't leave his family for her, she simply put him out of her mind and went on singing.But as incapable as he was of a heartfelt response to a real situation, the Rev. Mr. Merrill was tirelessly capable of thinking; he pondered and brooded and surmised and second-guessed my mother to death.
John Irving
When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked.
Ray Bradbury
And when I am in a new place, because I see everything, it is like when a computer is doing too many things at the same time and the central processor unit is blocked up and there isn't any space left to think about other things. And when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is even harder because people are not like cows and flowers and grass and they can talk to you and do things that you don't expect, so you have to notice everything that is in the place, and also you have to notice things that might happen as well. And sometimes when I am in a new place and there are lots of people there it is like a computer crashing and I have to close my eyes and put my hands over my ears and groan, which is like pressing CTRL + ALT + DEL and shutting down programs and turning the computer off and rebooting so that I can remember what I am doing and where I am meant to be going.
Mark Haddon
It's just that it's fearsome for a man to have a woman start thinking right in front of him. It always leads to trouble.
Larry McMurtry
There is nothing typical about my profession.’ Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. ‘I don’t want to talk about it any longer.
Patrick deWitt
...most people are almost blind and they don’t see most things and there is lots of spare capacity in their heads and it is filled with things which aren’t connected and are silly, like, “I’m worried that I might have left the gas cooker on.
Mark Haddon
We realize we can't go around saying and doing what we're actually thinking and feeling. If we all did that, life would be a lunatic asylum. Indeed, that's how you know you're talking to a lunatic. Lunatics are those poor souls who have lost their inner communication and so they allow themselves to say and do exactly what they are thinking and feeling and that's why they're mad.
Robert McKee
The thought process can never be complete without articulation.
Stephen King
And Siobhan says people go on holidays to see new things and relax, but it wouldn’t make me relaxed and you can see new things by looking at earth under a microscope or drawing the shape of the solid made when 3 circular rods of equal thickness intersect at right angles. And I think that there are so many things just in one house that it would take years to think about all of them properly. And also, a thing is interesting because of thinking about it and not because of it being new.
Mark Haddon
I—I didn't think—""That," said Professor McGonagall, "is obvious.
J.K. Rowling
It's nice to have things to look forward to.
Stephen Chbosky
Tall, aren't you?" she said. "I didn't mean to be."Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
Raymond Chandler
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.
Harlan Ellison
If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
Warren Ellis
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.
Ray Bradbury
A rich man, was one who spent a million.
Brian McGreevy
Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him.
Felix Salten
The most dreadful part of all," the old stag answered, "is that the dogs believe what the hound just said. They believe it, they pass their lives in fear, they hate Him and themselves and yet they'd die for His sake.
Felix Salten
What do you want? What do you know about it? What are you talking about? Everything belongs to Him, just as I do. But I, I love Him. I worship Him, I serve Him. Do you think you can oppose Him, poor creatures like you? He's all-powerful. He's above all of you. Everything we have comes from Him. Everything that lives or grows comes from Him.
Felix Salten
Excuse me, sir?" "Do you wish to become a shepherd of souls? A minister of our church?" "No," replied Hugh, frowning. "Why would I wish to?" "Your concern with souls, milord, invites me to believe that you ultimately may choose that path of occupation." Hugh made a face of disgust. "No. I wish to become a man. One must become a man, first, before he can choose to be anything else.
Edward Cline
...let us consider the holes in our own bodies and into what these congenital wounds open. Under the skin of man is a wondrous jungle where veins like lush tropical growths hang along over-ripe organs and weed-like entrails writhe in squirming tangles of red and yellow. In this jungle, flitting from rock-gray lungs to golden intestines, from liver to lights and back to liver again, lives a bird called the soul.
Nathanael West
Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.
Richard Llewellyn
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.
Larry McMurtry
He was, after all, just a man. And not merely a narrative.
Hanif Kureishi
No man is as big as his own idea.
Ray Bradbury
It was what you gave out that made a man, not what you got back.
Joe Abercrombie
She told him that he had the most beautiful voice she'd ever heard, that it sounded like whiskey and wood smoke.
Dennis Lehane
Kill the boy and let the man be born.
George R.R. Martin
We are one. Man, horse, lance, we are one beast of blood and wood and iron.
George R.R. Martin
The next man I was involved with lived in Boston. He taught me to cook mushrooms. He taught me that if you heat the butter very hot and put just a very few mushrooms into the frying pan, they come out nice and brown and crispy, whereas if the butter is only moderately hot and you crowd the mushrooms, they get all mushy and wet. Every time I make mushrooms I think of him. There was another man in my life when I was younger who taught me to put sour cream into scrambled eggs, and since I never ever put sour cream into scrambled eggs I never really think of him at all.
Nora Ephron
Only a real man has the right to stand at the pinnacle.
James Clavell
You know,” he said. “I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don’t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow. It’s what we do.” There was silence, in the high place.
Neil Gaiman
One of the few times in a man's life when he is not full of shit!!The morning of a colonoscopy. Enough said!
Jim Lawrence
Bravery is the dead man’s virtue.
Joe Abercrombie
He removed his unvaluable valuables and dumped his shirt, pants, and skivvies into a letter slot.
Stephen King
The trap had a ghastly perfection
Stephen King
You gonna do somethin'? Or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?
Kevin Jarre
The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.
Stephen King
Well if manners maketh man make-up maketh woman.And we don't need a phalanx of behavioural scientists to explain why man judge women by their looks.Because the see bether than thay think.
Kathy Lette
He understood well enough how a man with a choice between pride and responsibility will almost always choose pride--if responsibility robs him of his manhood.
Stephen King
A man can take only so much. Even a phony man like me.
Jeff Lindsay
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Stephen King
There was murder, there was rape, there were unspeakable practices, and all of them were for the good, the bloody good, the bloody myth, for the grail, for the Tower.
Stephen King
Maybe it's like Mac says. Ever man winds up with the horse that suits him.
Cormac McCarthy
Sometimes the man who looks happiest in town, with the biggest smile, is the one carrying the biggest load of sin. There are smiles & smiles; learn to tell the dark variety from the light. The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. He's had his fun & he's guilty. And all men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors & smells. Times come when troughs, not tables, suit appetites. Hear a man too loudly praising others & look to wonder if he didn't just get up from the sty. On the other hand, that unhappy, pale, put-upon man walking by, who looks all guilt & sin, why, often that's your good man with a capital G, Will. For being good is a fearful occupation; men strain at it & sometimes break in two. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as to be his hog. I suppose it's thinking about trying to be good makes the crack run up the wall one night. A man with high standards, too, the least hair falls on him sometimes wilts his spine. He can't let himself alone, won't let himself off the hook if he falls just a breath from grace.
Ray Bradbury
the man in black travels with your soul in his pocket.
Stephen King
They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.
Stephen King
They were close to the end of the beginning . . .
Stephen King
Once again there was the desert, and that only.
Stephen King
I feel wonderful and sad. It's the gin.
Stephen Beresford