V Kon Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is the anticipation of future happines. — Anna Carey

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

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

You know what happens to me! — Satoshi Kon

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

Thus every principle of simplicity urges us to adopt the natural view, that there really are objects other than ourselves and our sense-data which have an existence not dependent upon our perceiving them. — Bertrand Russell

Gus: "It tastes like ... "
Me: "Food."
Gus: "Yes, precisely. It tastes like food, excellently prepared. But it does not taste, how do I put this delicately ... ?"
Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down around your canal-side dinner table."
Gus: "Nicely phrased."
Gus's father: "Our children are weird."
My dad: "Nicely phrased. — John Green

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

The errors could have been avoided by mentally moving the who or whom back into the gap and sounding out the sentence (or, if your intuitions about who and whom are squishy, inserting he or him in the gap instead). — Steven Pinker

Poverty and nakedness are nothing, provided you have a good wife — Nikos Kazantzakis

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

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

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

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

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