Cosmopolis Quotes

#1. I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.

Pankaj Mishra

#2. Cosmopolis is the movie of my life. I didn't consider myself an actor before, even if I had 10 years of acting behind me. I always felt like a fraud, and inappropriate. I doubt a lot. David Cronenberg gave me confidence in myself. He changed my way of acting and thinking in this industry.

Robert Pattinson

#3. I like your mother. you have your mother's breasts."
"her breasts."
"great stand-up tits." he said

Don DeLillo

#4. I want to eat lunch. you want to eat lunch. we're people in the world. we need to eat and talk._Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#5. This is the woman you are inside the life. looking at you, what? i'm more excited than i've been since the first burning nights of adolescent frenzy. excited and confused. i look at you and feel an erection stirring even as the situation argues strenuously against it. _Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#6. Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.

China Mieville

#7. In fact, when it comes to TV, I'm not even sure what my real, true preferences are.

Hank Stuever

#8. I was painted to celebrate the wild cascades of love, the rollicking, bucking, breaking and transformative passion that inevitably gave way to miserable, constricting, overbearing disappointment.

Hannah Rothschild

#9. The fates lead those who will those who won't they drag.

Seneca.

#10. I look at you. i know what you are. you are sloppy-bodied, smelly and wet. a woman who was born to sit trapped in a chair while a man tells her how much she excites him. _Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#11. How many times do two people have to fuck before one of them deserves to die? _Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#12. It can't afford to be hard. it won't allow itself psychologically.

Don DeLillo

#13. You and I. We're here. So might as well.

Don DeLillo

#14. Look, see, learn, become a citizen of Mankind, not just Hannibal, Missouri. That is the message of [Mark] Twain.

Hal Holbrook

#15. Yeah, that's the way.

Gena Showalter

#16. Holes are interesting. there are books about holes.

Don DeLillo

#17. It's there in your face, all of it, the way it rarely shows in any face. what do i see? something lazy, sexy and insatiable.

Don DeLillo

#18. How much would every marriage change if we pursued absolute benevolence over our own comfort, happiness, and self-interest?

Gary Thomas

#19. And it was only when we invented the spear and began roaming the planet that technologies got complex and central to human survival.

Kirkpatrick Sale

#20. Freud is finished, Einstein's next.

Don DeLillo

#21. Sex finds us. sex sees through us. that's why it's so shattering. it strips us of appearances._Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#22. Days like this. i look at you and feel electric. tell me you don't feel it too._Eric Packer

Don DeLillo

#23. Use your unique gifts and talents to make a difference in the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. When he died he would not end. The world would end.

Don DeLillo

#25. Any assault on the borders of perception is going to seem rash at first.

Don DeLillo

#26. World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained.

Don DeLillo

#27. Look around you! No matter where you turn your eyes, no matter on what continent you set your foot, you are surrounded, hemmed in, enclosed by wonderful things. Learn to look, learn to appreciate.

Vladimir Fedorovski

#28. That's my actual payment, the fact that I can actually make something that I actually enjoy and put on repeat, and it's not related to anything else or anyone else's thoughts and ideas, it all came from me; I just love that aspect of it.

Akon

#29. Why something and not nothing? why music and not noise?

Don DeLillo

#30. One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

Sidney Nolan