Wolf Creek Film Quotes & Sayings

I had a hard time watching Wolf Creek. It is a film with one clear purpose: To establish the commercial credentials of its director by showing his skill at depicting the brutal tracking, torture and mutilation of screaming young women. When the killer severs the spine of one of his victims and calls her "a head on a stick," I wanted to walk out of the theater and keep on walking. — Roger Ebert

The Ark was a humble piece of religious furniture which originally contained the covenant itself. It was dear to the Israelites, reminding them of their lowly origins, and standing for the pristine orthodoxy and purity of their theocratic creed. The Bible account gives later justifications for David's failure to build a temple for it: God would not allow him, as he was above all a warrior, a 'man of blood'; it was also said that he was too busy making war.172 — Paul Johnson

When she fell asleep, she dreamed of death
not just for her, not just for her species, but for every living thing she had ever known. The earth was flat and brown, a field of dirt as barren as the moon, a single road stretching in the distance. the last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world. Then they disappeared, and there was nothing left but nothing. — Dan Wells

Parents who are cowed by temper tantrums and screaming defiance are only inviting more of the same. Young children become more cooperative with parents who confidently assert the reasons for their demands and enforce reasonable rules. Even if there are a few rough spots, relationships between parents and young children run more smoothly when the parent, rather than the child, is in control. — Sandra Scarr

We all pay federal taxes that we send to Washington and it is not unusual that as Americans we would expect some federal investment in the cities and metro areas because we're the ones that are generating the economic activity. — Michael Nutter

Human beings, in their thinking, feeling and acting are not free agents but are as causally bound as the stars in their motion. — Albert Einstein

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel. — Christopher Isherwood

Everyone has one or two secrets they never want to reveal to others. But they also want at least one person to accept everything about them ... no matter how they suffer or how painful it gets — Minari Endou

She kept hoping that something would happen to rescue her from her own small-scale, predictable dreams. — Chuck Palahniuk

A great nation betrayed the principles which have made it great, and thereby became hostage to hostage-takers. — Daniel Inouye

It is the history of our kindnesses that alone makes this world tolerable," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. "If — Kay Redfield Jamison

I am lucky enough to be married to a guy who tells me I look beautiful every day. — Debra Winger

The creation of wealth is not simply a physical process and cannot be explained by a chain of cause and effect. It is determined not by objective physical facts known to any one mind but by the separate, differing, information of millions, which is precipitated in prices that serve to guide further decisions. — Friedrich Hayek

Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful. — Louisa May Alcott

It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. Those who have followed the assertive idiot rather than the introspective wise person have passed us some of their genes. This is apparent from a social pathology: psychopaths rally followers. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb