August > August 's Quotes

“Often the case with people who don't read fiction. Hollow inside, monochrome, so they can switch gears no problem. They swallow something and forget about it as soon as it goes down their throat. Constitutionally incapable of empathy. These are people who most need to read, but in most cases it's already too late.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Bullet Train

“Leave something where it is for too long and it starts to go bad, you ever heard that? If the same
people hold power forever, they get corrupt, every time.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

“Life has nothing to do with right and wrong. The
people with the power make the rules. So if they’re on your side, you have nothing to worry about.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

“When you have a chance, you should always take it.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

“All the knowledge and science that human beings have, it only helps humans. Get it? No living thing in the world besides humans is happy that humans exist.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

“So many of the troubles of the world happen because people don’t take them seriously.”
― Kōtarō Isaka, Three Assassins

“the less you know the less lies you will tell”
― james hadley chase

“Now women are funny animals. You never know when you are with them - they don’t often know where they are with themselves . It’s no good trying to find out what makes them tick. It just can’t be done. They have more moods than an army of cats with lives, and all you can hope is to spot the mood you’re after when it turns up and step in quick. Hesitate you’re a dead duck, unless you’re one of those guys who like slow approach that might get you somewhere in a week or in a month or even a year.”
― James Hadley Chase, You Never Know with Women

“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

“You guys like to tell jokes and giggle and kid around, huh? Giggling like a bunch of young broads in a school yard. Well, let me tell you a joke: Five guys sitting in a bull pen, San Quentin. Wondering how the fuck they got there. What'd we do wrong? What should we've done? What didn't we do? It's your fault, my fault, his fault. All that bullshit. Finally, someone comes up with the idea, wait a minute, while we were planning this caper, all we did was sit around and tell fucking jokes. Got the message?”
― Quentin Tarantino, Reservoir Dogs

“For those regarded as warriors...

When engaged in combat, the vanquishing of thine enemy can be the warrior’s only concern. Suppress all human emotion and compassion. Kill whoever stands in thy way, even if that be Lord God or Buddha himself. This truth lies at the heart of the art of combat.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill

“Foreign films, Cliff thought, were more like novels. They didn't care if you liked the main character or not. And Cliff found that intriguing.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

“Life is a bleeding, screaming, violently jerking pig in your arms. And death is you holding a bunch of heavy unmoving meat.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

“When a man of principle battles a scoundrel, the scoundrel always at first has the upper hand. Because there are some things the man of principle won’t do.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

“Now, many directors could and would say, So what? It’s just a movie. You don’t have to believe in giant monkeys to direct King Kong.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

“Jules Winnfield: "ENGLISH, MOTHER FUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT!?"

Samuel L. Jackson”
― Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction: A Quentin Tarantino Screenplay

“A dog’s got personality. Personality goes a long way.”
― Quentin Tarantino

“When it comes to some of them mean bastards out there, it's the only thing does the job. You really only need to hang mean bastards. But mean bastards, you need to hang.”
― Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight

“But that, little lady, is why they call him "The Hangman". When the handbill says DEAD OR ALIVE, the rest of us shoot ya' in the back from up on top of a perch somewhere, bring ya' in dead over a saddle. But when John Ruth The Hangman catches ya', you don't die by a bullet in the back. When the Hangman catches you... you hang.”
― Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight

“Keepin' you at a disadvantage, is a advantage I intend to keep.”
― Quentin Tarantino, The Hateful Eight

“You musn't be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.”
― Christopher Nolan, Inception: The Shooting Script

“Now you're looking for the secret, but you won't find it...because you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled.”
― Christopher J. J. Nolan

“Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.”
― Christopher J. Nolan, The Dark Knight

“Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love.”
― Emma Watson

“Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong…it is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideas.”
― Emma Watson

“I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.”
― Emma Watson

“If not me, who?
If not now, when?”
― Emma Watson

“I'm willing to be seen.
I'm willing to speak up.
I'm willing to keep going.
I'm willing to listen to what others have to say.
I'm willing to go to bed each night at peace with myself.
I'm willing to be my biggest bestest most powerful self.”
― Emma Watson

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game

“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game