Kon 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. Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

Guy Kawasaki

#3. 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

#4. Nobody can change the world. But you can make a difference.

Seong Pill Kon

#5. If god is dead, who's going to fix this mess?

Satoshi Kon

#6. Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore?

Mamoru Oshii

#7. I earnestly hope that all children will spoil this book by painting the illustrations. I wanted to do this myself but the publishers would not let me. But let the colours you lay on be violent, gorgeous, terrific colours, because my feelings are like that.

G.K. Chesterton

#8. My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the truth, those are not trustworthy, those are for entertainment purposes only.' Eventually I had quieter thoughts.

Anne Lamott

#9. I love the written word; I love when someone takes the time or leaves you a note or sends a letter.

Sandra Bullock

#10. I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

William Hazlitt

#11. There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#12. 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

#13. How can a falling dove turn again into a flying dove once again? It really takes the eyes of someone who sees you for the beauty that you really are. And if there are no other eyes there to see you in that way, then you had better be those pair of eyes, for yourself, to see yourself with!

C. JoyBell C.

#14. Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D.

Satoshi Kon

#15. He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us.

Satoshi Kon

#16. The Masked Man's son,

Chris Colfer

#17. But I will hold on hope
And I won't let you choke
On the noose around your neck
And I'll find strength in pain
And I will change my ways
I'll know my name as it's called again

Mumford & Sons

#18. As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

John McCain

#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. Everything results in the value that you wish to take from each experience or interaction.

Steven Redhead

#22. I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

Satoshi Kon

#23. If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.

Jojo Moyes

#24. Occasionally, I will come across something that has lost its label over the years - maybe the client didn't want to declare the dress at customs and took the label out - but I'll recognize it from an image that I've seen in Vogue, or a little thumbnail sketch.

Hamish Bowles

#25. The you in you isn't the you you think is in you.

Satoshi Kon

#26. But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen with his face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. This

Anonymous

#27. You know what happens to me!

Satoshi Kon

#28. 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