Quotes About Defiance

The sense of tragedy is that the world is not a pleasant little nest made for our protection, but a vast and largely hostile environment, in which we can achieve great things only by defying the gods; and that this defiance inevitably brings its own punishment.

Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll. I'm ready. My toaster will never be the boss of me. Get ready to make me some Pop-Tarts, bitch.

And when they finally demanded that I had to stop keeping score and that I needed to play every future contest as an exhibition, I casually made the kind of statement sixteen-year-olds should not make to forty-six-year-old Midwestern housewives: "Why are you telling me how to do my job?" I asked. "It's not like I show up in your kitchen and tell you when to bake cookies.

I am not under any orders to make the world a better place.

Could you hold the chainsaw a bit closer to your mouth, please?

I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation.

Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.

I tell everybody, I'm tired of being jerked around. Okay? So let's just not pretend. I don't have fuck for a heart. You people are not going to make me feel anything. You are not going to get to me.

The little boy smiled back at all the angry faces glaring in at him. And the little boy blew kisses.

When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.

What stops you here is what stops your entire life. The air will always be too filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

You are the all-singing all-dancing crap of the world

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong

The sixth rule of Fight Club: No shirt, no shoes.

I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

I just didn't want to be fixed.

I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself then the world will ever dare inflict.

Shining anal queen of perfection, she says, "Fuck.

To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

The previous Madison Spencer would bother to hold their frightened hand, to calm and comfort them. Who I am now, however, I tell them to cry me a stinking shit river and fall down dead, already.

I say, no. You've used me enough. If you don't cooperate, we'll go after Marla. I say, lead the way.

I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really.