Quentin Coldwater Quotes

Dear Q,

Hell of a thing getting you out of that dungeon. Richard showed up, finally, for which I suppose we should be grateful, though G-d knows he doesn't make it easy.

We wanted to stay, Q, but it was hard, and getting harder every day. The centaurs said it wasn't working. But if you're reading this then you woke up after all. I'm sorry about everything. I know you are too. I know I said I didn't need a family to become who I was supposed to be, but it turned out that I did. And it was you.

We'll meet again.

-E ~ Lev Grossman

As a teenager in Brooklyn Quentin had often imagined himself engaged in martial heroics, but after this he knew, as a cold immutable fact, that he would do anything necessary, sacrificing whatever or whomever he had to, to avoid risking exposure to physical violence. Shame never came into it. He embraced his new identity as a coward. He would run in the other direction. He would lie down and cry and put his arms over his head or play dead. It didn't matter what he had to do, he would do it and be glad. ~ Lev Grossman

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you. ~ Quentin Crisp

Movies are not about the weekend that they're released, and in the grand scheme of things, that's probably the most unimportant time of a film's life. ~ Quentin Tarantino

And on and on, and it all sounded completely, horribly plausible. Any one of a thousand options promised - basically guaranteed - a rich, fulfilling, challenging future for him. So why did Quentin feel like he was looking around frantically for another way out? Why was he still waiting for some grand adventure to come and find him? The professors Quentin talked to about it didn't seem concerned at all. They didn't get what the problem was. What should he do? Why, anything he wanted to! ~ Lev Grossman

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked. ~ Quentin Crisp

One of your greatest protections against making bad choices is to not put on any mask of anonymity. ~ Quentin L. Cook

Do you ever think of moving back?"
"To Coldwater? Heck, no. England suits me fine. These Brits love my accent. The first time Gavin asked me out it was just to hear me talk. Lucky for him, it's one of the things I do best." All teasing left her eyes. "Too many memories back home. Can't drive down the street without thinking I see Scott in the crowd. ~ Becca Fitzpatrick

Our love affair with guns has nothing to do with tyranny, or militias, or self-preservation. Just ask any NRA member the following: If Jesus Christ himself were to come down off the cross and grant you one wish, would you opt for a world without guns
or the one we live in now? If every gun owner truly feared for their life and liberty, the answer would be obvious. But it's not about life and liberty. It's all about the sheer hard-on of owning a gun. ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

My family knew I was gay when I was 15, long before I got famous. But it's a very different thing coming out to your family and coming out to the universe. That's a big step. Maybe without me, there wouldn't be Adam Lambert. Without Bowie, there wouldn't be me. Without Quentin Crisp, there wouldn't have been Bowie. So everything is part of a big daisy chain. ~ Boy George

I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture. ~ Quentin Blake

I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page. ~ Quentin Tarantino

We don't have a gun problem; we have a math problem: ZERO GUNS = ZERO GUN-RELATED DEATHS. ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I found this really fantastic used record store in Japan, and I bought all these different records and different 45s. And one of the 45s was just, it had the theme, "Green Leaves of Summer," the theme to "The Alamo" on one side, and then on the flip side was a theme to, the theme to "Magnificent Seven." ~ Quentin Tarantino

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion. ~ Quentin Crisp

I once hit Quentin on the head with my ball and chain. ~ Chiaki Kuriyama

Besides, even if you went all the way, what would you be? Feather-weight champion of the world. Who gives a shit? I doubt you can even get a credit card based on that.
Marsellus Wallace ~ Quentin Tarantino

I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it. ~ Quentin Bryce

Quentin had told Spike that inking 'percussion' across your
knuckles was kind of lame. It takes more than ten letters to make
a badass knuckle tattoo. That was the problem with drummers.
They didn't listen. But they always seemed to get laid anyway. ~ Ros Baxter

I used to be a hopeless romantic. Now I'm just hopeless. ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything. ~ Quentin Tarantino

'Django' was definitely the beginning of my political side, and I think 'Hateful Eight' is the ... logical extension and conclusion of that. I mean, when I say conclusion, I'm not saying I'll never be political again, but, I mean, I think it's like, in a weird way, 'Django' was the question, and 'Hateful Eight' is the answer. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Always wanted a girl with a heart-shaped ass. Most of my exes have ass-shaped hearts. ~ Quentin R. Bufogle

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. ~ Quentin Crisp

Quentin Tarantino is controlled insanity, I would say. He's very loud and fun. I don't think there's anybody on the planet like him that I have ever met. ~ Rose McGowan

You should be semi-embarrasse d about certain people seeing your movie. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I laugh, but I'm still thinking about ten-year-old Margo having a crush on ten-year-old me. ~ John Green

I think it is the fact that birds are two-legged, like us, which gives them something of our balance and gesture and makes them nearer to us. ~ Quentin Blake

I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater. ~ Quentin Tarantino

Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those
who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement. ~ Quentin L. Cook

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one. ~ Quentin Tarantino

...being around him wasn't good for Quentin. He could feel himself regressing in the direction of an adolescent tantrum - it was like trying to talk to his parents. He lost all perspective on who he was and how far he'd come. ~ Lev Grossman

It's easy to have high morals when you'd be safe naked in the middle of San Quentin Prison. ~ Ed Williams

I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I thought that if I couldn't make a living as an artist, at least I shouldn't starve.

By the time I had finished these studies, I had realized that I simply did not draw well enough to be the kind of artist and illustrator that I wanted to be, and so for two days a week over two years I drew - and drew and drew - from the models in the life classes at Chelsea School of Art. I really found out how people looked and moved and balanced, and though nowadays I almost never use a sketchbook and just make everything up as I go along, it's those days in the life room that are the back of it all. ~ Quentin Blake

I'm definitely not on Twitter. I do have a Facebook page and Facebook friends. It's a lot of fun, especially if you don't just start friending people you don't know. ~ Quentin Tarantino

What I wanted most of all was to use sex as a weapon to allure, subjugate, and, if possible, destroy the personality of others. ~ Quentin Crisp

I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.' ~ Quentin Tarantino

A thing when I was writing the movie [The hateful eight] was, I hate The Confederate cause. I've always felt that they are our Nazis and the rebel flag was our swastika. So I totally have no love for that whole romance for that Antebellum time period. ~ Quentin Tarantino

I don't have to play the song all the way to the very end - I use it while it's good and while it's cool and while it's exciting, and then I get out. ~ Quentin Tarantino