Ti West Quotes

Did you know, ji, ’ Zulu offered, ‘that the map of Tolkien’s Middle earth fits quite well over central England and Wales? Maybe all fairylands are right here, in our midst.

[N]obody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

Gratitude is the language of love.

Was it an accident... or is it just that the world unwraps itself to you again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew?

The dead outnumber the living fourteen to one, and we ignore the accumulated experience of such a huge majority of mankind at our peril

I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead.

There were always people who struggled their way to the top of the heap, no matter how much that heap looked like garbage when seen from the outside.

I had seen a different side of her, the one where she didn't feel threatened by me, and I liked that side. That side was vulnerable and happy and kind.

The question, therefore, is not whether one should teach philosophy to Muslim students, but rather what kind or kinds of philosophy should be taught and how the subject should be approached.

I was young--so young--naive, isolated in a small world of safety and comfort too soon shattered by a phone call.

Just for the record, saying 'The surprise hasn't started yet' while pulling something out of your pants is super creepy.

We only get one life. Wasting someone’s time is the subtlest form of murder.

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.

In times of violence, there is always that first acquaintance or intimate of ours, who, when they are touched, makes what had seemed like a bad dream suddenly, evisceratingly real.

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.

I've been thinking", Jules saidNever a good thing I thought

A smile becomes you or perhaps you become you when you smile.

Thoughts were zipping around my head like fireflies in a jar, bumping into each other, blinking on and off.

A life has to move or it stagnates.

There (is) order and even great beauty in what looks like total chaos. If we look closely enough at the randomness around us, patterns will start to emerge.

It's an election year. We would prefer that voters didn't use common sense.

Not the last time in Western history, the revolutionaries armed themselves with a new religion to steel themselves for greater outrageous.

She'd grown up believing in hell in an abstract nightmare way

Following dark winter's strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.

This market way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Five minutes ago is gone, never to be seen again. Five minutes from now, isn't here yet....What are you going to do with it?

The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead.

Now I recall my emotions at that moment, children seem to me a remarkable race. They want so much to murder so many people, and they so rarely murder anybody at all.

You can’t get much done in life if you only work on days when you feel good.

Note to self: Caymen is very good at sarcasm.”“If you’re recording notes for an official record, I’d like the word ‘very’ stricken and replaced with ‘exceptionally.

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down.

Even through her coat, he could feel the curve of her arm, making him aware of their differences. Man and woman. Hard and soft.

She sighed. “What I wouldn’t give for a civilized bathroom.” Howie remained silent out of habit and also because he didn’t know what a civilized bathroom was.

A job isn’t ‘till death do us part…

Of all the things I expected to find in my lunch, a live snake wasn't one of them.

I am the sum of my past experience.Some people have got a lot to answer for.

On the way home, I saw a fist fight between an adverb and a pair of parentheses.I kept on walking.

You dedicate your life to the pursuit of pleasure. No over-indulgence, mind you, but knowing that your body is apleasure machine, you treat it carefully in order to get the most out of it.

It's been my experience that those people who seem the most 'normal' are in fact the most dangerous.

It paid to be cultured, just as long as you didn't start growing bacteria.

Revenge is never the answer

I was sitting on a bench having a bagel, but from where I was both jogging and scullng looks good to me. -- Sam

They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.

You know you're in love when you cant even put into words, how you feel for a person.

His eyes are so intense I want to look away . . . or never look away, I can’t decide.

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.

You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.