Alex Garland The Beach Quotes

#1. 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

Charles Edwards

#2. I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

Alex Garland

#3. It made her feel discouraged, like if you took the word apart into two sections of dis and couraged. It was getting harder and harder to stay couraged.

Susan Patron

#4. When I'm at school in the city, I don't feel particularly worldly or wise. It's only when I come back home that I remember exactly why I left.

Megan McCafferty

#5. One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror; one kills everybody, one is a god.

Jean Rostand

#6. Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

Alex Garland

#7. The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.

Henri Poincare

#8. Though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the evilest motherfucker in the valley

Alex Garland

#9. Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.

Alex Garland

#10. I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars.

Alex Garland

#11. Will you accept me? (Fury)
No, I'm here naked with you because all my clothes fell off by accident and I can't find them. (Angelia)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. An hour later we were walking past rows of busy beach huts and weaving between sunbathers and Frisbee games. I was surprised that people weren't taking more notice of us. Everyone looked so strange to me that I couldn't believe I didn't look equally strange to them.

Alex Garland

#13. Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.

Dr. Seuss

#14. I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Francis Bacon

#15. There was nothing strange about it. Jed and i were on a covert mission. We had dinoculars, jungle, a quarry, a threat, the hidden presence of AK-47s and slanted eyes. The only missing element was a Doors soundtrack.

Alex Garland

#16. I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.

Flavor Flav

#17. Proverbs 31:27: She looketh well to the way of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness.

Sandra Dallas

#18. Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

Christopher Morley

#19. It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything.

Agatha Christie

#20. I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.

Chris Lilley

#21. Normally, small talk is enough for me to form an opinion of someone. I make quick judgments, often completely wrong, and then stick by them rigidly.

Alex Garland

#22. The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.

Alex Garland

#23. It does help to actually realize that however stunning the person who is, you know, fluttering eyelashes at you, she doesn't do anything to match up to your wife.

Colin Firth

#24. If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?

Alex Rodriguez