Kon Quotes & Sayings

If god is dead, who's going to fix this mess? — Satoshi Kon

That is entirely fitting I'm sure, but I personally can't get over the memory of 2005. When Michael Jackson stood essentially alone and accused and convicted in the minds of many of the most perverse crime. — Geraldo Rivera

With feelings of gratitude for all that is good in this world, I put down my pen. Well, I'll be leaving now. — Satoshi Kon

He's not god! He's just the asshole who fucks with us. — Satoshi Kon

A rabble-rouser from the UN high commission for refugees ... the former magi who resigned in protest against purification ... plus a girl ... and a dog. — Mamoru Oshii

Nobody can change the world. But you can make a difference. — Seong Pill Kon

A senator got up today in Congress and called his fellow senators sons of wild jackasses. Now, if you think the senators were hot, imagine how the jackasses must feel. — Will Rogers

You know what happens to me! — Satoshi Kon

The you in you isn't the you you think is in you. — Satoshi Kon

Do the words 'human rights' even exist in this country anymore? — Mamoru Oshii

The Kon-Tiki expedition opened my eyes to what the ocean really is. It is a conveyor and not an isolator. The ocean has been man's highway from the days he built the first buoyant ships, long before he tamed the horse, invented wheels, and cut roads through the virgin jungles. — Thor Heyerdahl

Now that I have created moe, men of the world will never know peace as they struggle with the pitfalls of 3D. — Satoshi Kon

Oh, man. I'm not interested to driving the Lamborghini. I'm more interested in making Lamborghini. That's what creativity means to me. — Seong Pill Kon

[ ... ]virtue is not some kind of mode whose value is
incontestable, it is simply
a scheme of conduct, a way of getting along, which varies
according to accidents of geography and climate and which, consequently, has no
reality, the which alone exhibits its futility.
Only what is constant is really good; what changes perpetually cannot
claim that
characterization: that is why they have declared that immutability belongs to the
ranks of the Eternal's perfections; but virtue is completely without this quality: there
is not, upon the entire globe, two races which are virtuous in the same m
anner;
hence, virtue is not in any sense real, nor in any wise intrinsically good and in no sort
deserves our reverence. — Marquis De Sade

I keep thinking of Kon-Tiki as we fly along... the ocean is very blue. Sometimes we fly over white cloud banks that extend for miles and miles to the horizon.I feel content and very appreciative of the sunshine and good company, the little things which mean so much." This from a young man going to war.
"No peace treaty, no international government, is any good at all without the spirit underneath it. I look to the principles of a Christian life, not stopping at a 'gentlemanly' Christian life but working toward a saintly one. I hope one day to find and work toward God." And I never even knew what religion [Doug Bradlee] was, some sort of Protestant, I suppose. — James Brady

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp. — Richard Bach

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right. — Satoshi Kon

Kon's films present a fractured, multifaceted world in which everyone has their own different reality. — Andrew Osmond

Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Hopefully, any character I play has an anchor in reality. — Michael Sheen

A serious bibliophile never lends his books. In fact he does not even read his books, for fear of wearing them out. — Gerard De Nerval

Well, I don't know what they'll turn out to be, but I'm working on a film of Kon Tiki. — Phillip Noyce

No one else has ever made me feel the way you do. Not even close. — Mia Sheridan