Rumble Fish Quotes

#1. Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

Markus Zusak

#2. I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product.

Robin Williams

#3. There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

Katharine Hepburn

#4. For days afterward, a series of magical thoughts flew through my mind. For instance, it seemed somehow surprising that the hours continued to pass in spite of what I knew. It was almost shocking that time did not, in fact, stop.

Karen Thompson Walker

#5. I haven't entirely adjusted to the whole yum, blood, yum aspect of being a vampire. My body wants it, but my head is still like, Ew, that is BLOOD, time to faint.

Tamara Summers

#6. Independent labels take nothing and make something out of it. Major labels buy that something, and try to make more out of it.

Tom Silverman

#7. Adrift in a sea of madness, the sextant is broken, but I can still see the stars.

Jack G. Bowman

#8. Julian Schnabel painted a picture that he dedicated to my character in Rumble Fish. It was called The Motorcycle Boy. I remember when he brought it over to me at the Mayflower Hotel [in New York] years ago. This is when you and I knew each other.

Mickey Rourke

#9. Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Angela Carter

#10. When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.

Aidan Gillen

#11. But we can't be everything we read.

S.E. Hinton

#12. Some of the wildest men make the best pets.

Mae West

#13. my parents Oedipal fakers

Lidia Yuknavitch

#14. I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

Antonio Tabucchi

#15. California is like a beautiful wild kid on heroin, high as a kite and thinking she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying, not believing it even if you show her the marks.

S.E. Hinton