Quotes About Defiance

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

All art is based on non-conformity.

Art is a statement of one in the face of all; not a statement by one for the use of all.

Art and resistance are great together. That's what art's made for. Look at Vincent van Gogh: He didn't cut off his ear because he was selling well.

Art derives a considerable part of its beneficial exercise from flying in the face of presumptions.

The arts in America exist in spite of America, not because of America.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

ISIS and these kinds of extremists are a death cult. We're a life cult. Rock 'n' roll is a life force, and it's joy as an act of defiance.

With the pride of the artist you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

And there I was, pretty as heck, brown eyes, a few freckles, fashion challenged, and a bad attitude. Max II.

Fuck yr heroes, I'm saving myself.

Leave him alone! Debbie shouted. Shut up, please, or I'll kill you, Mr Tiny replied.

I won't die. I won't give those ghouls the pleasure. I'll live and grow strong. I'll escape, then hunt them down and make them suffer.

The world won't end with a bang or a whimper. It'll end with the death screams of a thousand demons and a defiant, carefree, savage, wolfen howl.

If mankind's destined to bite the bullet, let's bite it and be damned.

I say to hell with Generals, Princes and the rest. Life is too short. I want to live, fight, love, die. Not waste my time studying.

I'd always been stubborn. I admired Mr. Crepsley more than he knew, but hated the idea of looking like a pushover who did everything he was told. Sometimes I disobeyed the vampire just so he wouldn't think I was paying attention to what he said!

I don't like you, Debbie snarled. You're cocky and arrogant. You don't have to like me, Steve retorted. This isn't a popularity contest. It's a matter of life and death.

She stared at him dully and said: "I don't like crooks, and even if I did, I wouldn't like crooks that are stool-pigeons, and if I liked crooks that are stool-pigeons, I still wouldn't like you." She turned to the outer door.

Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.

Sam Spade: When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it.

No man had ever knocked little Richard down. But of course Ammm was not a man.

What the fuck does it take to show you motherfuckers, what does it fucking take what do you want how much do you want because I am willing and I'll stand before you and I'll raise my arms and give you my chest and throat and wait, and I've been so old for so long, for you, for you, I want it fast and right through me-- Oh do it, do it motherfuckers, do it do it you fuckers finally, finally, finally.