Best Green Mile Quotes

#1. The creature pulled flaky skin back from its teeth in a terrifying grin. Then it pounced.

Aimee Duffy

#2. I think most Americans believe that although it's better not to use military force if you can avoid it, that the world simply doesn't provide us the luxury of giving away military force as an important tool of foreign policy.

Robert Kagan

#3. I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Susan B. Anthony

#4. You must never be deflected by unpleasantness. I want you to remember that. Although it may not be apparent to others, your duty will become as clear to you as if it were a white line painted down the middle of the road. You must follow it, Flavia.

Alan Bradley

#5. You have waged bitter and undeclared war upon the green, gutting the rain forests, mile after mile, day after day, but know this: the war has come home! It is man's turn to embrace the scythe.

Alan Moore

#6. Humans are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.

B.R. Ambedkar

#7. You've got a real headache of a boyfriend, kid.

Reki Kawahara

#8. We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

Stephen King

#9. For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Stephen Grosz

#10. What I didn't realize was how many doors the act of writing unlocks, as if my Dad's old fountain pen wasn't really a pen at all, but some strange variety of skeleton key.

Stephen King

#11. My sense of time seems to be melting, like a kid's snowman in a January thaw.

Stephen King

#12. In a way - I know how crazy this will sound, of course I do, but there is no sense in writing something as long as this if you can't say what feels true to your heart.

Stephen King

#13. Loose an hour and you cannot catch up in a year.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. Some people can detect the odor molecules in a green bell pepper at a concentration of less than one part per trillion. That is like picking out one grain of sand from a mile-long beach.

Neil Shubin

#15. Yes sir boss. Like the drink, only not spelled the same.

Stephen King

#16. ...some of it's how he acts like he's King Shit of Turd Mountain, but mostly it's that he's sneaky, and he likes to hurt

Stephen King

#17. The vegetation has crawled mile for mile towards the towns. It is waiting. When the town dies, the Vegetation will invade it, it will clamber over the stones, it will grip them, search them, burst them open with its long black pincers; it will bind the holes and hang its green paws everywhere.

Jean-Paul Sartre