Top 27 Kon-el Quotes
#1. The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles.
Thor Heyerdahl
#2. People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.
Alan Bates
#3. It is a fact which escapes no one, that, generally speaking, whoso is acquainted with his worth has but a little stock to cultivate acquaintance with.
Thomas Carlyle
#5. A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog.
Mamoru Oshii
#6. Nobody can change the world. But you can make a difference.
Seong Pill Kon
#7. If god is dead, who's going to fix this mess?
Satoshi Kon
#8. Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?
Mamoru Oshii
#9. It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into - a duckpond.
Ford Madox Ford
#10. Is independence so bad for one?" asked Daphne.
"Nothing worse," said Harriet. "It gives you a wonderful conceit of yourself.
Elizabeth Goudge
#11. A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
Richard Sibbes
#12. To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out.
Arundhati Roy
#13. When we enlarge upon the affection our friends have for us, this is very often not so much out of a sense of gratitude as from a desire to persuade people of our own great worth, that can deserve so much kindness.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#14. Oh, man. I'm not interested to driving the Lamborghini. I'm more interested in making Lamborghini. That's what creativity means to me.
Seong Pill Kon
#15. Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.
Satoshi Kon
#16. I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#17. He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us.
Satoshi Kon
#18. Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.
Michael Mandelbaum
#19. Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki.
Phillip Noyce
#20. Kon's films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality.
Andrew Osmond
#21. Training is, quite simply, one of the highest-leverage activities a manager can perform.
Ben Horowitz
#22. I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.
Satoshi Kon
#23. Now another illusion has been stripped from my eyes and I feel as if there wasn't such a thing as real true friendship in the world.
L.M. Montgomery
#24. The you in you isn't the you you think is in you.
Satoshi Kon
#26. We look in the mirror and see the shades of other faces looking back through the years; we see the shape of memory, standing solid in an empty doorway. By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts; we haunt ourselves.
Diana Gabaldon
#27. With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now.
Satoshi Kon