Brutalising Quotes

#1. He follows a man with a rolled up mattress strapped to his back. When he stepped down from the train into the brutalising glare of the searchlights in the marshalling yard he noticed two SS soldiers pointing at this man and laughing.

Glenn Haybittle

#2. Perception is blind to the knowledge that you cannot understand.

Lionel Suggs

#3. The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Come on up, boys
-I'm dead.

Dylan Thomas

#5. Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.

Bob Dylan

#6. Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

Joseph Butler

#7. It dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances,
it dances.
It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock's tail,
It soars to the sky with delight, it quests,
Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart,
like a peacock it dances.

Rabindranath Tagore

#8. Bitch' is a stingless insult these days - it hurts like, I don't know, a celery-stabbing.

David Mitchell

#9. The Turkish Embassy in Washington is an ornate, eclectic building on the corner of Twenty-third Street and Massachusetts Avenue which was built originally for Edward Hamlin Everett, the man who put the crimp in bottle caps.

George W. S. Trow

#10. I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist!

Wil Wheaton

#11. The degree of someone's just punishment is not a function of how long it took to commit the deed; rather, it's a function of how severe the deed itself was.

J.P. Moreland

#12. A battle avoided cannot be lost.

Sun Tzu