Top 100 Spike Quotes
#1. Oh, alright. You're no fun," he sighed. "My name is Razor."
"What kind of a name is that?"
"It's a nickname."
"What kind of a nickname is that?"
"Spike, Blade, Fang - all the good, deadly objects were already taken. It was the best I could do.
Ada Adams
#2. I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.
Spike Jonze
#4. Be willing to get fired for a good idea.
Spike Jonze
#5. Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.
Dorian Yates
#6. I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.
Spike Lee
#7. His muscles glistened, wet as if he'd just swum a great distance. To his side, he carried a massive Shardblade, point down, sticking about a finger's width into the stone, his hand on the hilt. The Blade reflected torchlight; it was long, narrow, and straight, shaped like an enormous spike.
Brandon Sanderson
#8. There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in,
But they're ever so small
That's why rain is thin.
Spike Milligan
#9. It was one of the few places where someone remembered his name. Yeah, okay, so he felt like Sam Malone on Cheers, but there was no Norm or Cliff sitting at the bar here. More like Spike and Switchblade.' (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. I've been working with good directors - the Wachowski brothers, Spike Lee, Terry Gilliam, Mel Gibson ... I love American movies, but I love European movies, too, and I want to do both.
Monica Bellucci
#11. Me and my friends had BMX magazines and skate magazines, and I was a photographer who made skate videos.
Spike Jonze
#12. You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.
Spike Jonze
#13. Never return to a doctor whose office plants have died. After five days in hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.
Spike Milligan
#14. This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.
Steve Bartlett
#15. If you can't take a hit, you're not going to last long, that's for sure.
Spike Lee
#16. I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.
Spike Jonze
#17. I've noticed a growth in Spike and definitely in myself. I feel like the seeds that he planted in me five years ago have ripened up to a place where I could even tackle this role in the way that I did.
Rosario Dawson
#18. Lack of communication can drive a spike between two people wider than any physical distance.
Mark W. Boyer
#19. bradawl. It was just a blunt steel spike set into a handle.
Lee Child
#20. Only on the third class tourist class passengers' deck was it a sultry overcast morning, but then if you do things on the cheap you must expect these things.
Spike Milligan
#21. Most people out there are just trying to keep their job and provide for their family. If climate change is now a once-in-a-mortgage problem, and if food prices start to spike, people will pay attention.
David Titley
#22. I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.
Spike Jonze
#23. Being left-handed has its advantages in volleyball. Few people know enough about your spike and serve to give you advice.
John Kessel
#24. Is there anything worn under the kilt? No, it's all in perfect working order.
Spike Milligan
#25. All directors are storytellers, so the motivation was to tell the story I wanted to tell. That's what I love.
Spike Lee
#26. I looked at Monty, who nodded and was thoroughly enjoying himself. I would spike his tea later - my revenge would be bitter and its name was coffee. "How
Orlando A. Sanchez
#27. In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.
Spike Milligan
#28. I'd like to state that Spike Lee is not saying that African American culture is just for black people alone to enjoy and cherish. Culture is for everybody.
Spike Lee
#29. I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.
Spike Lee
#30. What is grace? I'm not certain; all I know is that my heart felt like a spike, and then, in that room, it opened and felt like an umbrella.
Tom Junod
#31. We were making love in the back of a truck and we got carried away.
Spike Milligan
#32. I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.
Spike Jonze
#33. A lot of times, we censor ourselves before the censor even gets there.
Spike Lee
#34. Lorcan rubbed his head. "Am I asking too much to want the little bitch dead? Am I?" It seemed Hefaidd-Hen learned long ago not to answer certain questions. "All I want is for her to suffer a painful, horrifying death. And for her head to be on a spike in front of my castle. That's all I want.
G.A. Aiken
#35. As a people we do not need anyone else's stamp of approval.
Spike Lee
#36. Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.
Spike Milligan
#37. Oh, we played about like three tons of buzzard puke this afternoon.
Spike Dykes
#38. What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.
Spike Lee
#39. Obviously technology has become such a big presence in our lives and, I definitely know, in my life.
Spike Jonze
#40. A family man from Siberia
As a father was very inferior
But one operation
Revised the situation
And now he's Mother Superior
Spike Milligan
#42. I'm watching a dream I'll never wake up from.
-Spike Speigel
Keiko Nobumoto
#43. My father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan
#44. The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.
Spike Jonze
#45. This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
Jeanette Winterson
#46. 'She's Gotta Have It' and 'School Daze,' I really didn't know what I was doing. And the biggest indicator of that was the acting. 'Do the Right Thing' was like the first film where I really felt comfortable working with actors.
Spike Lee
#47. When I was 20 years old, I had no plans to ever be a filmmaker.
Spike Jonze
#48. At the demonstration of sixty feminists against the Miss America Pageant in 1968, when the women filled a trash can with bras, girdles, curlers and spike-heeled shoes, the bra-burning myth was launched by the media and, in spite of its inaccuracy and spiteful intent, put radical feminism on the map.
Hilda Scott
#49. I want to make films without a single clear message, and films that are as close as possible to what it feels like to be alive. At least to me.
Spike Jonze
#50. I don't like to use the word 'remake', I think reinterpretation is a better word. It's just a matter of respecting the source, and then trying to make your own film, and trying not to be inhibited by being so beholden to every single thing ... We respect the source, but we make changes to it.
Spike Lee
#51. 'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.
Laz Alonso
#52. To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.
Steve Toltz
#53. I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.
Spike Lee
#54. I live in New York City, the stories of my films take place in New York; I'm a New York filmmaker.
Spike Lee
#55. On the top of the tomb, seemingly driven through the solid marble - for the structure was composed of a few vast blocks of stone - was a great iron spike or stake. On going to the back I saw, graven in great Russian letters: 'The dead travel fast.
Bram Stoker
#56. Whenever I start writing, I try to put together songs that feed the feeling of the movie.
Spike Jonze
#57. I don't really analyze my stuff when I write. I write about stuff that I'm interested in, that I'm feeling at that particular time. When I stand back and look at the complete work, I might see themes that run through the whole film, but I'm not really conscious of it when I'm doing it.
Spike Lee
#58. General: Where are you from? Spike: London. General: Which part? Spike: ... Well, all of me.
Spike Milligan
#59. What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?"
A Bongaloo, Son," said I,
Is a tall bag of cheese
Plus a Chinaman's knees
And the leg of a nanny goat's eye
Spike Milligan
#60. Stick around long enough, you'll get some grace.
Spike Lee
#61. I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
Bai Ling
#62. He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.
Spike Lee
#63. It's impossible to gauge how much weight someone else places on their past.
Spike Chunsoft
#64. We'd even devised the Buffy scale of life relationships: you start off wanting Xander, spend your twenties going out with Spike and setttle down with giles.
Jenny Colgan
#65. Blessed are the cracked, for they let in the light
Spike Milligan
#66. Spike Spiegel: Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I hate?
Jet Black: Whatever ...
Spike Spiegel: Kids ... animals ... and women with atitude.
Jet Black: Oh?
Spike Spiegel: So why do we have all three neatly gathered on our ship!
Keiko Nobumoto
#67. I'm a little slow, so forgive me if I'm inarticulate.
Spike Jonze
#68. As an ex-footballer, sometimes surfer and wannabe rock star, Quentin had been fucked by cheerleaders, surfer girls and groupies, but he had never, ever been fucked like that.
Ros Baxter
#69. First of all, what in this world does not revolve around money? But money is a big part of film, unlike a lot of other art forms.
Spike Lee
#70. My sister Laura's bigger than me
And lifts me up quite easily.
I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;
She must have something heavy inside.
Spike Milligan
#71. Suddenly, someone who was at the center of your life is gone, excised as quickly as an apple is cored, a sharp spike driven down the center of your world, then a cruel flick of the wrist and the almost surgical extraction of your very heart.
Lisa Scottoline
#72. We've got to turn this backward thinking around where ignorance is championed over intelligence. Young black kids being ridiculed by their peers for getting A's and speaking proper English: that's criminal.
Spike Lee
#73. Domestic discretionary spending on education and health care and the environment has been growing at 2 to 3 percent a year. He says we have to rein it in, but he ignores the spending category that is the big spike in the budget.
John Spratt
#74. There's always been this hocus-pocus or magical, mystical thing associated with the making of film that sort of psyches people out and makes them think that this cannot be done; that this is a craft that cannot be learned.
Spike Lee
#75. SPIKE: I'm a biker, babe. It's in my blood to get what I want.
Sam Crescent
#76. If you compromise what you're trying to do just a little bit, you'll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you're suddenly really far away from where you're trying to go.
Spike Jonze
#77. And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.
Jonah Goldberg
#78. I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
Chris Rock
#79. Money can't buy friends, but you can get a better class of enemy.
Spike Milligan
#80. There's a difference between stress and pressure.
Spike Jonze
#81. You were impaled? (Delphine) You know the worst part about impalement? You don't die immediately. You hang on bleeding and aching as the spike works its way slowly through your body until it pierces some major organ. Pray to the gods you worship that you never know what that feels like. (Jericho)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
Spike Lee
#83. 'Red Hook Summer' is another chapter in my chronicles of Brooklyn.
Spike Lee
#84. As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.
Spike Lee
#86. The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.
Spike Jonze
#87. I love people that willfully defy what you're supposed to be and create their own definition of their selves.
Spike Jonze
#89. By the time I was fourteen the nail in my wall would no longer support the weight of the rejection slips impaled upon it. I replaced the nail with a spike and went on writing.
Stephen King
#90. My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.
Tony Visconti
#91. Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.
Thom Yorke
#92. I've always loved music videos - I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters.
Akiva Schaffer
#93. A finely tuned spike of pain speared through his skull, signalling a detectable breach in his conditioning. He didn't want to stop his decent into chaos. What he wanted was to hurt the men who'd dared look at her.
Nalini Singh
#95. Cause mo better makes it mo better.
Spike Lee
#96. Well, he thought, you can fool some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be President of the United States, and on that useless profundity, Milligan himself pedalled on, himself, himself.
Spike Milligan
#97. I'll be vilified if I shoot a film in Toronto for New York. And rightfully so!
Spike Lee
#98. I love these alternative schools! No one hassles me here over being a crazed, notorious serial killer!
Spike Chunsoft
#99. Getting to work on the thing that you're always thinking about anyways is like the biggest--that's the goal.
Spike Jonze
#100. I think people who have faults are a lot more interesting than people who are perfect.
Spike Lee
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