Redbelt Trailer Quotes & Sayings

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes. — Mignon McLaughlin

Wagons rattling and banging,
horses neighing and snorting,
conscripts marching, each with bow and arrows at his hip,
fathers and mothers, wives and children, running to see them off
so much dust kicked up you can't see Xian-yang Bridge!
And the families pulling at their clothes, stamping feet in anger,
blocking the way and weeping
ah, the sound of their wailing rises straight up to assault heaven.
And a passerby asks, "What's going on?"
The soldier says simply, "This happens all the time.
From age fifteen some are sent to guard the north,
and even at forty some work the army farms in the west.
When they leave home, the village headman has to wrap their turbans for them;
when they come back, white-haired, they're still guarding the frontier.
The frontier posts run with blood enough to fill an ocean,
and the war-loving Emperor's dreams of conquest have still not ended. — Du Fu

The fact that many things have no explanation ought to prevent them from happening; but it doesn't. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I've done a lot of period dramas, but I love modern productions, too. — Rupert Evans

People say the most stupid things on the spur of the moment that they then have to retract. — Michael Palin

The more people who know a secret, the more likely it is to leak. — Richelle Mead

God. Love. People use words all the time. Doesn't mean they agree on their meaning. It doesn't mean they've thought through what they mean when they use them. — Various

Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons or mass transport; it is irresponsibility. The loss of an acre of forest every second, the mass slaughter of elephants for their ivory, the extinction of entire species of plants, insects and animals all over the world is not something that "just happens" because there are more of us human beings. It happens because the race of ruling beings put in charge has almost wholly lost its sense of stewardship. We have turned away from God. — Winkie Pratney

Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline. — Larry David

Someone you haven't even met yet is wondering what it'd be like to know someone like you. — Iain Thomas

I know a person who will poke the fire, set chairs straight, pick dust specks from the floor, arrange his table, snatch up a newspaper, take down any book which catches his eye, trim his nails, waste the morning anyhow, in short, and all without premeditation - simply because the only thing he ought to attend to is the preparation of a noonday lesson in formal logic which he detests. - William James — Mason Currey

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity? — Wilkie Collins

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that. — William Shakespeare

Im not your biggest girly girl. — Maggie Siff

Yet surely she was as culpable as he was; recalling her casual speculation about when Jasper's wife's grandmother might die and thereby free Jasper and Susan to divorce, Liz wondered if a stronger sign of a relationship's essential corruptness could exist than for its official realization to hinge on the demise of another human being. — Curtis Sittenfeld