Orlac Quotes & Sayings

Why not get a job in West Yellow Stone selling buffalo turds? I could make clocks out of them. — Jonathan Evison

Tempting is not forcing. — Peter Kreeft

If she was pretty and well-mannered, a daughter could marry up; a son could not. A son needed his own prospects. — G. Willow Wilson

This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall down from the heights of possibility, down into diminished selves and dismal societies. Many now do not even hope for a better society, but they recognize it when they encounter it, and that discovery shines out even through the namelessness of their experience. Others recognize it, grasp it, and make something of it, and long-term social and political transformations, both good and bad, arise from the wreckage. The door to this ear's potential paradises is in hell. — Rebecca Solnit

And unbidden, floating into consciousness came the truth of his utter wretchedness. Even the very earth seemed to cry out in pain. Hodburn Wood — J. Tyson-Capper

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. — Paul Watzlawick

For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it. — Kage Baker

And I'm a pair of pants with a hole scorched through the ass? — Spider Robinson

Two brothers who were also about to learn the hard way that just because I wasn't wearing my cut didn't mean that I was weak. Or that I forgot how to pull a motherfucking trigger. — T.M. Frazier

A lie to the faithless is merely a conversation in their language. — Lorrie Moore

In fact, it's doing it all over the world. Obama, first of all, is running the biggest terrorist operation that exists, maybe in history. The drone assassination campaigns, which are just part of it. All of these operations, they are terror operations. — Noam Chomsky

I had a fascination with 3D that goes back to the View-Master. I'd always dreamed of making a film in 3D. It's like a combination of theatre and film. There's something 3D gives to a movie that takes you to another land. Working with RealD creatively was a liberating experience. Thank you RealD for allowing us to make something like Hugo. — Martin Scorsese

Pain or damage don't end the world ... — Al Swearengen

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts. — Kage Baker