Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes
Look at the birth of anything; it's always more violent than anything you could ever imagine.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to be a bust.
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All theory of modernity in sociology suggests that the more modernity there is, the less religion. In my theory we can realize that this is wrong: atheism is only one belief system among many.
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I was seeing this girl recently and used to call her up saying I missed her. I can't help it after a few drinks!
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I saw John Garfield smoke. He was my idol, so I smoked. I even smoked like him.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.
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The food isn't too bad. It's very different from the food that the astronauts ate in the very early days of the space program.
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I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.
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If somebody makes me laugh, I’m his slave for life.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind of man can achieve with Positive Mental Attitude. It is a form of self-suggestion. It is a self-motivator to success. When it becomes a part of you, you dare to aim higher.
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When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there’s a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful. It kind of fends people off.
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There is always one person in the office that you want to whip their ass! If you don't know who it is, it is probably you.
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I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else.
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You are what you eat.....I've eaten so many fat cunts you wouldn't believe.
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What unites them is an almost reckless desire to test themselves in the most extreme circumstances. In many respects the life they have chosen is a complete rejection of the hyped, consumerist American dream as it is dished out in reality TV shows and pop-song lyrics. They've chosen asceticism over consumption. Instead of celebrating their individualism, theyíve subjugated theirs to the collective will of an institution. Their highest aspiration is self-sacrifice over self-preservation.
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Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
