Alexander C. Irvine > Quotes

“Overcommunicate. It's better to tell someone something they already know than to not tell them something they needed to hear.”
― Alex Irvine, Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization

“But sons have to be soldiers. And soldiers adapt.”
― Alex Irvine, John Winchester's Journal

“The world is ending. This is your chance. Would you rather die here, or in a Jaeger?”
― Alex Irvine, Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization

“This is the third night you've kept me up crying. Thought I'd give your mother a rest. Right now you haven't mastered English yet so I thought I'd put this on film for you. I want to show you something. Tony, see that? I built that for you and someday you're going to realize that it represents a lot more than just people's inventions. It represents my life's work. Someday you'll figure it out, and when you do, you'll do even bigger things with your life. I just know it. You're the future. I've created so much in y life, but you know what is the thing I'm proudest of? You. My son. The secret to the future is here!”
― Alexander Irvine, Iron Man 2

“Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.”
― Alex Irvine, Batman: Arkham Knight - The Riddler's Gambit

“Modesty is good. But take your credit. You can't always count on other people to offer it.”
― Alex Irvine, Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization

“Written in blood: In olden times in the West people used to say “I put my hand and seal” on a document when signing it. In the East this was literal in some cases. The emperor of Japan in ancient days “signed” important documents by dipping his hand in blood and putting a full bloody handprint on the page. In the history of pacts with the Devil, people were supposed to sign their names in blood. I have seen a couple of alleged pacts from earlier centuries and neither, as far as I can tell, was signed in blood, though they do bear signatures of people. Blood undoubtedly stressed the seriousness of the signing. You were giving away your soul. “The Blood Is the Life.”
― Alexander C. Irvine, Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal

“Maybe that’s the point of a diary. Keep your stories, your life, from dying. So that other people don’t forget.”
― Alexander C. Irvine, Supernatural: John Winchester's Journal

“The world may be about to end, but if it's going to end, we'll goddamn well give it our best shot first. And this is the place to do it.”
― Alex Irvine, Pacific Rim: The Official Movie Novelization

“All thouhgts of grandeur were delusions...until one made them real.”
― Alex Irvine, Batman. O Cavaleiro de Arkham. O Lance do Charada

“no human wants power for its own sake. One wants power because there is something one wishes to do with it.”
― Alexander C. Irvine, Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars Prose Novel

“Only by knowing how far we have fallen will we understand what it is to rise again.”
― Alex Irvine, Transformers: Exodus: The Official History of the War for Cybertron

“The act of writing, through its peculiar alchemy whereby the fruits of the mind are transformed into symbols intelligible to all literate minds—this is the greatest magic, perhaps.”
― Alex Irvine, The Secret Journal of Ichabod Crane

“He who plays for the ultimate prize must risk the ultimate stakes.”
― Alexander C. Irvine, Marvel Super Heroes: Secret Wars Prose Novel