Top 100 Craven Quotes
#1. I know this kind of girl," Grace was saying. "It's the worst kind of combination of abuse and privilege, and growing up in this, like, greenhorn southern-Californian Asian upper-middle-class ghetto, where everyone is so shallow and money-craven.
Gary Shteyngart
#2. Sir, I am not a brave man ... The truth is, I am an utter craven coward. I have never been within the sound of gunshot or in sight of battle in my whole life that I wasn't so scared that I had sweat in the palms of my hands.
George S. Patton
#3. Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
Adam Green
#4. We know all about you, Rincewind the magician. You are a man of great cunning and artifice. You laugh in the face of Death. Your affected air of craven cowardice does not fool me.
It fooled Rincewind.
Terry Pratchett
#5. You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.
Soren Kierkegaard
#6. The snow will cover me like a thick white blanket. It will be warm under the snow, and if they speak of me they'll have to say I died a man of the NIght Watch. I did. I did. I did my duty. No one can say I foreswore myself I'm fat and I'm weak and I'm craven, but I did my duty.
George R R Martin
#7. Miss Craven held up a pair she thought would fit me - monstrous great things they were, of course, and I thought she smiled as she held them.
Sarah Waters
#8. You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.
Rachel McAdams
#9. Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
Aaron Stanford
#10. I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.
Harvey Pekar
#11. An original thought would crack your feeble skull like a thunderbolt, you craven vulture.
Christopher Moore
#12. I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among the most interesting that I have ever seen.
Edward Forbes
#13. This was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed.
Chris Bohjalian
#14. Nor was he Aemon Targaryen. Three times the old man had chosen, and three times he had chosen honor, but that was him. Even now, Jon could not decide whether the maester had stayed because he was weak and craven, or because he was strong and true.
George R R Martin
#15. Do you want to die old and craven in your bed?- How else? Though not till I'm done reading.
George R R Martin
#16. What was it like to live in a time when one's fate was not war, when one was not led by the craven and the corrupt, when one's country was not a basket case kept alive only through the intravenous drip of American aid?
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#17. The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.
Peggy Noonan
#18. Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.
Henry Winkler
#19. The man unwilling to brave the test has already shown himself to be much more craven than the man who fails.
Brandon Mull
#20. When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
Jack Vance
#21. If the fallen lord had ever once lived with a sense of moral goodness in his whole long existence, he had certainly lost it all ... with his craven madness for domination." ~Roe'vaash "Then'diel's SONG
K. Farrell St. Germain
#22. Fortune favors the bold." I smile weakly.
"So does death," she counters immediately. "The craven tend to live much longer than the heroic.
Melinda Salisbury
#23. Wes Craven was the guy who gave me my start, from my perspective, for almost no reason in particular.
Johnny Depp
#24. I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.
Sam Lipsyte
#25. Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven, "Nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe
#26. But as in landlessness alone resides the highest truth, shoreless, indefinite as God - so better is it to perish in that howling infinite, than be ingloriously dashed upon the lee, even if that were safety! For worm-like, then, oh! who would craven crawl to land!
Herman Melville
#27. Your Grace seems out of breath. I do hope you're not being chased by an overly enthusiastic heiress?" "Pack a light bag, Craven," Maximus snapped. "We're going to London to help a murderous lunatic escape from Bedlam.
Elizabeth Hoyt
#28. I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very ... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.
Bill Nighy
#29. Where my comedy really solidified was when Bush was elected. I couldn't understand how craven and crass he was, and how dumb other people were for electing him.
David Cross
#30. I shall not say why and how I became, at the age of fifteen, the mistress of the Earl of Craven.
Harriette Wilson
#31. E: When one has at last reached freedom, can one even contemplate going back?
HC: But if it is not possible to go back, or to choose to go back, then it is not freedom!
~Ericsson; Hilary Craven
Agatha Christie
#32. Accursed fate! that the unconquerable captain in the soul should have such a craven mate!
Herman Melville
#33. When did that higher, more spiritual conviction become something craven and greedy? And then again when did that greed transform itself into something worse, something less of the instinct and more closely related to the higher faculties?
Alaa Alghamdi
#34. HC: You think I shall differently tomorrow? [about suicide]
J: People do.
HC: Yes, perhaps. If you're doing things in a mood of hot despair. But when it's cold despair, it's different. I've nothing to live for, you see.
~Hilary Craven; Jessop
Agatha Christie
#35. You're too stupid to be craven," Pyp told him. "I am not," Grenn said. "Yes you are. If a bear attacked you in the woods, you'd be too stupid to run away.
Anonymous
#36. Look at the face I don't have, Craven, and tell me if it looks like I care.
Derek Landy
#38. And here's another order. From this day forth, you will not call yourself a craven. You've faced more things this past year than most men face in a lifetime.
George R R Martin
#39. I know that Wes Craven feels watching horror films does have a psychological effect, in a good way. It is very cathartic. He might be right about that.
Marley Shelton
#40. At UCLA I quickly learned the knack of getting grades, a craven surrender to custom, since grades had little to do with learning.
Hugh Nibley
#41. He made no empty promises, nor the craven excuse that his hands were tied by more powerful forces in the world than himself.
Mario Puzo
#42. The thing is this: Even if the husband leaves her in this awful craven way, she will still have to count it as a miracle, all of those happy years she spent with him. "It was a fucking miracle that I found him," she tells the philosopher.
Jenny Offill
#43. I think if anybody had a roll of dice with a lot of money at stake, they would not want Wes Craven and a romantic comedy.
Wes Craven
#44. You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.
Winston Churchill
#45. What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.
Matt Taibbi
#46. Others, craven-hearted, said disparagingly, that "he threw his life away," because he resisted the government. Which way have they thrown their lives, pray? - Such
Henry David Thoreau
#47. A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then, to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose. (Maester Aemon)
George R R Martin
#48. I always wanted to play a monster, and I also wanted to work with Wes Craven.
Robert Englund
#49. Scummer, pox and wound rot!" roared Tunstall, slamming his fist down on the bed. "Gods cursed the pig-tarsed mammering craven currish beef-witted bum-licking gut-griping louts that did this to me! May every flea, leech and hookworm in all creation find and feast upon them!
Tamora Pierce
#50. Nixon's avowedly 'square' White House was, in fact, less cheesy than Clinton's Lite FM programming and more confident than the Kennedys' culturally craven collect-the-set approach.
Mark Steyn
#51. Only a craven would steal a fruit when he could take the orchard.
George R R Martin
#52. I got very lucky to work with Wes Craven, very early on in my career, and continued to work with Wes for almost 19 years. I learned so much from him, and about his sense of story and his sense of horror, and that was great to be a part of.
Patrick Lussier
#53. I said you lie, knave!" shouted Beaumains, drawing his sword. "And for telling such craven falsehoods, you must die!"
The knight looked plaintively at Roger. "What's wrong with this fellow?"
He was dropped on his head when he was a baby," answered Roger.
Gerald Morris
#54. It is a great mistake, as we have already remarked, to be afraid of Him and to act in His presence like a timid and craven slave trembling with fright before his master.
Alphonsus Liguori
#55. Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.
Charles Foster Johnson
#56. Though I said art sure no craven vastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore, tell me why thy lordly name is on the nigts plutonium shore, quoth the raven never more
Edgar Allan Poe
#57. For me, certain signifiers fit you, and not others. For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero and asshole of the Cosmos.
Walker Percy
#58. Calculated and craven political stunt.
Tom DeLay
#59. One nip from a dragon and you're down? Get up, you craven school (boy/girl)!
Gangrel
#60. Spring, of all seasons most gratuitous,
Is fold of untaught flower, is race of water,
Is earth's most multiple, excited daughter;
And those she has least use for see her best,
Their paths grown craven and circuitous,
Their visions mountain-clear, their needs immodest.
Philip Larkin
#61. This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show.
Matthew Weiner
#62. I believe the cinema is one of our principal forms of art. It is an incredibly powerful way to tell uplifting stories that can move people to cry with joy and inspire them to reach for the stars.
Wes Craven
#63. I make something I can look at and say, "That's a good piece of work, and there's some terrific directing and acting in it, and you should be proud of it."
Wes Craven
#64. You have to be aware of what the audience's expectations are, and then you have to pervert them, basically, and hit them upside the head from a direction they weren't looking.
Wes Craven
#65. I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.
Wes Craven
#66. How can you have 'Scream' without Ghostface? It's like 'Friday the 13th' without Jason.
Wes Craven
#67. There's more emphasis on art and culture in Europe than there is in the United States and I think that a lot of American directors and writers are just trying to copy other American horror films, they don't pick up much in the way that European filmmakers do.
Wes Craven
#68. I come from a blue-collar family, and I'm just glad for the work.
Wes Craven
#70. The thing of sitting in an audience and going into a dream-like state with several hundred other people that are sharing exactly what you're feeling is a profound event.
Wes Craven
#71. I went to a Christian college. You would be expelled if you were caught in a movie theater. It was ridiculous.
Wes Craven
#72. If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.
Wes Craven
#73. But I made him the Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security because that added an element of political espionage.
Wes Craven
#74. You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.
Wes Craven
#76. If I'm going to be a caged bird, I'll sing the best song I can.
Wes Craven
#77. the enormity of loss couldnt be born without the promise of something greater
Melissa A. Craven
#78. Everybody is afraid of the unknown. Everybody is afraid of the people that they've done terrible things to!
Wes Craven
#79. I'm having a reputation of being somebody who will not be crazy. Not descend to doing drugs and spending an enormous amount of money, and instead delivering a product to people. Something they can sell and recoup their money and make a profit.
Wes Craven
#80. I think the experience of going to a theater and seeing a movie with a lot of people is still part of the transformational power of the film, and it's equivalent to the old shaman telling a story by the campfire to a bunch of people.
Wes Craven
#81. When he had first come to the village,it was the future that loomed huge.So much to plan.So much to learn. Then it was the present that had consumed him-each day with all its chores and never enough hours to do them.
Margaret Craven
#83. It's not even a kiss anymore. It's jumping off a building. It's a coke binge. A single slash to the throat. Kissing Leo is like perpetual suicide; I die in her mouth over and over, my hips smacking into hers with all the force of the fall.
Lime Craven
#84. Pain is useless without pleasure. One highlights the other, and the tension that simmers between them is the sweetest of lines to cross.
Lime Craven
#85. The 'Scream' series is unique in that it's an ongoing murder mystery, even though it's a different killer, so if you know who that killer is, then half of the fun of the movie is gone.
Wes Craven
#86. The whole business is changing dramatically, and the way fans follow and participate in movies, and make their own movies to emulate those movies, is profoundly different.
Wes Craven
#87. I don't know. Is that good-different, or I-should-come-with-a-warning-label-different?
Melissa A. Craven
#88. I was anathema in polite society after I made 'Last House.' People literally would grab their children and run from the room.
Wes Craven
#89. I grew up an only child, which means you can look at my toys - I'll show them off, in fact - but god help you if you lay a finger on them.
Lime Craven
#90. A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?
Wes Craven
#91. Within the structure of 'Scream 4,' there is the film within a film, but that's been part of the 'Scream' franchise since 'Scream 2,' when you had the 'Stab' franchise.
Wes Craven
#92. My brother and I both used to worry about dying at 40 because our father died at 40. That probably wasn't terribly rational, since my father led a rather unhealthy lifestyle, shall we say.
Wes Craven
#93. Already the rain had become an element of life like the air Mark breathed, and when it stopped, he missed it somehow, and found himself listening for the drip, drip, drip that seemed now a necessary and comforting component of his life.
Margaret Craven
#94. If you're in a theater, people are texting, all around you. You have the little glowing screens everywhere. Think of how annoying that can be.
Wes Craven
#95. I'm the kind of director, at any given moment, an idea occurs to me, I'll just do it.
Wes Craven
#96. A friend introduced me to Bob Shaye. He was one of the most remarkable men I've ever met. He was a Fulbright scholar, an excellent chef, and very knowledgeable about the arts.
Wes Craven
#97. Something like Nightmare On Elm Street, to me, was kind of an examination of levels of consciousness and the pain of facing the truth, and how easy it is to fall asleep, or want to fall asleep.
Wes Craven
#98. The world was full of cravens who pretended to be heroes; it took a queer sort of courage to admit to cowardice ...
George R R Martin
#99. Everybody's making horror films and, to me, not especially well.
Wes Craven
#100. My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.
Wes Craven
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