Top 25 Empire Of The Sun Quotes
#1. The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
Walter Scott
#2. Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity
Guy Debord
#3. For all his youth, he seemed to be willing himself to the edge of an adult despair.
J.G. Ballard
#4. The sun's glow had given way to a brilliant twilight that colored the great mountains with violet and orange rivers.
Michael R. Hicks
#5. A cruel queen does not mean an unsuccessful one. Under her guidance, Kenettra changed from a glittering gem into a clouded stone, and her empire became one to rule all others, a darkness that stretched from sun, to sea, to sky.
- The Empire of the Wolf, translation by Tarsa Mehani
Marie Lu
#6. When I was young and the empire was beginning to disintegrate, the idea was absolutely unbelievable, particularly to children who'd been taught that the sun never set ... that's what all my books are about, the end of empire.
Jane Gardam
#7. Of the Sun, Wonderful Ethiopians of the Ancient Cushite Empire, The African Origins of Civilization
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#8. The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.
Steven Wright
#9. Neither is it the acme of excellence if you fight and conquer and the whole Empire says, "Well done!
Sun Tzu
#10. We've done a lot of studies to see when they do happen, why, and I mean there's a variety of reasons. But one, it starts with a commitment where they decide this is going to be who we are. Maybe it's out of their faith, a new way of looking at their faith, that we must be integrated across race.
Michael Emerson
#11. The most reasonable of requests felt burdensome if a person had no choice in the matter.
Juliet Marillier
#13. The Empire is a thug, a bully. It's no better than Surat Nuat, or Black Sun, or the syndicate of Hutts. The Empire pretends it's about law and order, but at the end of the day, it's about dressing up oppression in the costume of justice.
Chuck Wendig
#14. There are also some moving sections about World War II in Anthony Burgess's Any Old Iron, Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman, Kit Reed's At War As Children, Chang-rae Lee's A Gesture Life, Empire of the Sun by J. G. Ballard, and Nancy Willard's Things Invisible to See.
Nancy Pearl
#15. And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.
Andrew McMahon
#16. I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
Steven Spielberg
#17. As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.
Jerry Saltz
#19. The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z.
Fergie
#20. After a heavy snowfall one night in early December the snow formed a thick quilt from which the old man's face emerged like a sleeping child's above an eiderdown. Jim told himself that he never moved because he was warm under the snow.
J.G. Ballard
#21. I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie in China.
Steven Spielberg
#22. The flies festered over the bodies, in some way aware that the war had ended and determined to hoard every morsel of flesh for the coming famine of the peace.
J.G. Ballard
#24. The Empire of Wisdom is the only empire on which the sun never sets!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#25. Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
Rafael Cruz
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