A Clockwork Orange 1971 Quotes

#1. When you attack a tyranny you must expect it to fight back.

Philip K. Dick

#2. Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

Abraham Lincoln

#3. It sounds disgusting, in my opinion, 'stuffing,'" she continued. "I'd never heard of it before Rafe told me. To put your fingers inside a raw bird. It's the sort of thing they did on the frontier, isn't it.

Caleb Crain

#4. Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to.

George Seaton

#5. The inherent dialectic of desire itself had in way already shown me this; for all images and sensations, if idolatrously mistaken for Joy itself, soon honestly confessed themselves inadequate. All said, in the last resort, It is not I. I am only a reminder. Look! Look! What do I remind you of?

C.S. Lewis

#6. I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please.

Erin Morgenstern

#7. I shift on to my side and find myself looking directly into Gale's eyes. For an instant the world recedes and there is just his flushed face, his pulse visible at his temple, his lips slightly parted as he tries to catch his breath.

Suzanne Collins

#8. Montgomery's unique role in the domestic slave trade was that it was the first community that had a rail line that connected the Deep South to the mid-Atlantic region.

Bryan Stevenson

#9. I'm never bored. Only people bore me, so I avoid them

Dexter Petley

#10. It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

Melissa Bank

#11. The believing man does not claim to understand. He falls to his knees and whispers, "God." The man of earth kneels also, but not to worship. He kneels to examine, to search, to find the cause and the how of things.

A.W. Tozer

#12. If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#13. I believe that when you go into a gallery or a museum, the most powerful pieces are the ones that don't have the words in the corner that distract you from the larger piece.

Maynard James Keenan

#14. No one is really who people think they are. It's unfair. When they give us nicknames and create a story for us, everyone expects us to be that person and to live up to that legend.

Jonathan Maberry

#15. Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.

Yann Martel