Fredson > Fredson's Quotes

“Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving. I'm not the station, I'm not the stop: I'm the train. I'm the train.”
― Martin Amis, Money

“I've got to get this stuff out of my system. No, more than that, much more. I've got to get my system out of my system. That's what I've got to do.”
― Martin Amis, Money

“Ibn Malik snarled in anger, but Schaalman was faster. A hand lashed out and caught Ibn Malik around the throat.
You cost me any chance at happiness, Schaalman said.
Ibn Malik writhed around his fist: I gave you boundless knowledge instead.
A poor second, said Yehudah Schaalman, and squeezed.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“A bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides the necessary roughage in the literary diet.”
― Phyllis McGinley

“In LA, you can’t do anything unless you drive. Now I can’t do anything unless I drink. And the drink-drive combination, it really isn’t possible out there. If you so much as loosen your seatbelt or drop your ash or pick your nose, then it’s an Alcatraz autopsy with the questions asked later. Any indiscipline, you feel, any variation, and there’s a bullhorn, a set of scope sights, and a coptered pig drawing a bead on your rug.
So what can a poor boy do? You come out of the hotel, the Vraimont. Over boiling Watts the downtown skyline carries a smear of God’s green snot. You walk left, you walk right, you are a bank rat on a busy river. This restaurant serves no drink, this one serves no meat, this one serves no heterosexuals. You can get your chimp shampooed, you can get your dick tattooed, twenty-four hour, but can you get lunch? And should you see a sign on the far side of the street flashing BEEF-BOOZE – NO STRINGS, then you can forget it. The only way to get across the road is to be born there. All the ped-xing signs say DON’T WALK, all of them, all the time. That is the message, the content of Los Angeles: don’t walk. Stay inside. Don’t walk. Drive. Don’t walk. Run!”
― Martin Amis, Money

“Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.”
― Dan Simmons, Ilium

“I'm not saying it was your fault. I'm saying it wasn't nice.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Има велика тайна в ниските места. Както и във високите - но там е тя друга.”
― Милен Русков, Възвишение

“Глава человеку е боклучарник, какъвто втори няма. Но някой ще рече - там сред свинете и бисери ся намират! Да, и аз в туй вярвам. Трудно е само да ся разбере кое кое е.”
― Милен Русков, Възвишение

“Най паче голямата тайна е, че народ не существува. Но те я крият, както ся в земята златото крие. А не я и знаят.”
― Милен Русков, Възвишение

“А време минава, не ся ибава и пет пари за теб не дава.”
― Милен Русков, Възвишение

“Е, хайде със здраве! Може да ся видим - не губи надежда, - в тоз свят или в онзи. Пък ти ще ми кажеш кой кой е.”
― Милен Русков, Възвишение

“There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“TRUTH comes easier when you're nine years old, too. Everything's a lot less complicated. This or that. Us or them. Truth or lie.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street

“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. Truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“In Sarasota, Florida, Stephen King reminded me of the joy of just writing every day.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“Ако човек положи известни усилия да изглежда нормален, ще си спести доста време, през което спокойно да бъде такъв, какъвто иска да е.”
― Георги Господинов, Физика на тъгата

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
― Bill Keane

“Tradition:' one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 4: The New Scum

“The City went to me in a LANDSLIDE, and you know why? Because all it wants is decent television, a bit of spare change for booze, and a blowjob every Saturday night.”
― Warren Ellis

“You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.”
― Warren Ellis

“Hate is a place where a man who can't stand sadness goes." - Godo”
― Miura Kentaro, Berserk t.1

“Spider Jerusalem: You want to go out to dinner sometime?
Hannah Enkidu: Sorry, no. I'm married, not hungry,infected with seven unknown diseases, gay, pregnant with lizards and clinically dead.”
― Warren Ellis

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always”
― Dante

“Drunkenness had this to be said for it, it stopped the flow of inspirations.”
― Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters

“I am wholly committed to playing one role; “me”. The thing is, that sometimes leaves me too exhausted to play anyone else.”
― Ollie Quain, How to Lose Weight and Alienate People

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”
― Richard P. Feynman