Clockwork Orange Book Quotes & Sayings

You got shook and shook till there was nothing left. You lost your name and your body and your self and you just didn't care. — Anthony Burgess

And yet, in a sense, in choosing to be deprived of the ability to make an ethical choice, you have in a sense really chosen the good. — Anthony Burgess

The intention to act violently is accompanied by strong feelings of physical distress. — Anthony Burgess

The thrill of theft, of violence, the urge to live easy - is it worth it when we have undeniable proof, yes, yes, incontrovertible evidence that hell exists? — Anthony Burgess

It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out. — Sophie Kinsella

There's nothing I love more in the world than layering voices. — Laura Mvula

There were in her at the moment two beings, one drawing deep breaths of freedom and exhilaration, the other gasping for air in a little black prison-house of fears. — Edith Wharton

Less speed, less strength, less stamina since I hadn't "bloomed". But I'd bet I was outweighing everyone around me in the brain category. — Lili St. Crow

Iraq will not allow any action on its soil that could harm the U.S. We don't want any action from our soil to target our neighbors. — Ahmed Chalabi

Synchrotron light has revolutionized the field of protein crystallography. It has made it possible to look at much larger structures with much smaller crystals. — Gregory Petsko

Well, everything's a lesson, isn't it? Learning all the time, as you could say. — Anthony Burgess

On the surface simplicity
But the darkest pit in me
It's Pagan poetry
Pagan poetry — Bjork

When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. — Anthony Burgess

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement. — Anna Garlin Spencer

He closed his eyes in the languor of sleep. His eyelids trembled as if they felt the vast cyclic movement of the earth and her watchers, trembled as if they felt the strange light of some new world. His soul was swooning into some new world, fantastic, dim, uncertain as under sea, traversed by cloudy shapes and beings. A world, a glimmer or a flower? Glimmering and trembling, trembling and unfolding, a breaking light, an opening flower, it spread in endless succession to itself, breaking in full crimson and unfolding and fading to palest rose, leaf by leaf and wave of light by wave of light, flooding all the heavens with its soft flushes, every flush deeper than the other. — James Joyce

You can viddy that everything in this wicked world counts. You can pony that one thing always leads to another. Right right right. — Anthony Burgess

America is the new Roman Empire. Remember what happened to Rome. — Eddie Izzard

You have no cause to grumble boy. You made your choice and all this is a consequence of your choice. Whatever now ensues is what you yourself have chosen. — Anthony Burgess

And now, talking of praying, I realise sadly that there will be little point in praying for you. You are passing now to a region where you will be beyond the reach of the power of prayer. — Anthony Burgess