Spike Spiegel Quotes

Spike Spiegel: Hey, Jet, did you know that there are three things that I hate?
Jet Black: Whatever ...
Spike Spiegel: Kids ... animals ... and women with atitude.
Jet Black: Oh?
Spike Spiegel: So why do we have all three neatly gathered on our ship! ~ Keiko Nobumoto

Life will challenge you to do things....
.... sometimes, you just have to let go! ~ Spike Spiegel Cowboy Bebop

A sure cure for seasickness is to sit under a tree. ~ Spike Milligan

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films. ~ Spike Lee

And it be well for a knowlessman that he should not be here, for he would be taken from this place and his gaskin slit, his moules shown to the four winds, his welchet torn asunder with many hooks and his figgin placed upon a spike (...) ~ Terry Pratchett

It seems that the desire to oppress others is so ingrained in many humans that they readily distort even a liberating theory or concept into its inverse, creating another wall of defense against positive change. Ultimately, an unbiased observer of human behavior must conclude that most action is not shaped by theory, but rather theories are shaped to conform to actions we have no intention of changing. ~ Marjorie Spiegel

Even in this world where you're getting everything you need and having this nice life, there's still loneliness and longing and disconnection. ~ Spike Jonze

Under normal conditions people react to a threat with a temporary increase in their stress hormones. As soon as the threat is over, the hormones dissipate and the body returns to normal. The stress hormones of traumatized people, in contrast, take much longer to return to baseline and spike quickly and disproportionately in response to mildly stressful stimuli. The insidious effects of constantly elevated stress hormones include memory and attention problems, irritability, and sleep disorders. They also contribute to many long-term health issues, depending on which body system is most vulnerable in a particular individual. ~ Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes. ~ Spike Lee

If any of you haven't tried going to the movies alone, I suggest you do. It's not like I do it because I'm single; I've gone to the movies alone when I'm in a relationship, too. It's just a nice escape, time to zone out. Plus, nobody talks to you during the film, nobody puts their grubby hands in your popcorn, and nobody judges you for bringing in airplane bottles of vodka to spike your lemonade with. ~ Sarah Colonna

I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie. ~ Chris Rock

Chris Cooper I got to work with many times. ~ Spike Jonze

My sister Laura's bigger than me
And lifts me up quite easily.
I can't lift her, I've tried and tried;
She must have something heavy inside. ~ Spike Milligan

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy. ~ Spike Milligan

The soul is a verb." He impales a lit candle on a spike. "Not a noun. ~ David Mitchell

Said Hamlet to Ophelia,
I'll draw a sketch of thee.
What kind of pencil shall I use?
2B or not 2B? ~ Spike Milligan

The Dead Father was slaying, in a grove of music and musicians. First he slew a harpist and then a performer upon the serpent and also a banger upon the rattle and also a blower of the Persian trumpet and one upon the Indian trumpet and one upon the Hebrew trumpet and one upon the Roman trumpet and one upon the Chinese trumpet of copper-covered wood. Also a blower upon the marrow trumpet and one upon the slide trumpet and one who wearing upon his head the skin of a cat performed upon the menacing murmurous cornu and three blowers on the hunting horn and several blowers of the conch shell and a player of the double aulos and flautists of all descriptions and a Panpiper and a fagotto player and two virtuosos of the quail whistle and a zampogna player whose fingering of the chanters was sweet to the ear and by-the-bye and during the rest period he slew four buzzers and a shawmist and one blower upon the water jar and a clavicytheriumist who was before he slew her a woman, and a stroker of the theorbo and countless nervous-fingered drummers as well as an archlutist, and then whanging his sword this way and that the Dead Father slew a cittern plucker and five lyresmiters and various mandolinists, and slew too a violist and a player of the kit and a picker of the psaltery and a beater of the dulcimer and a hurdy-gurdier and a player of the spike fiddle and sundry kettledrummers and a triangulist and two-score finger cymbal clinkers and a xylophone artist and two gongers and a playe ~ Donald Barthelme

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both. ~ Spike Lee

I really don't deal with hypotheticals. ~ Spike Lee

Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums. ~ Spike Jonze

You must be rather new out here."
"Yes sir, new out here, but old everywhere else. ~ Spike Milligan

His hand trembled as he tried to summon the strength to make himself reach up and pull the spike free from his ~ Brandon Sanderson

Money! Father Rudden had tried everything to raise funds to repair the church, he even went to the bank. 'Don't be a fool, Father!' said the manager, 'Put that gun down.' Money! ~ Spike Milligan

I would still work with Mel Gibson! He's talented, man! Come on, he came up with 'Apocalypto,' man! I want to work with this guy. I've worked with Steven Seagal. He's out of his mind. I mean, I've worked with Spike Lee for four films. I've worked with some people that you can say are right there teetering between genius and madness. ~ Isaiah Washington

Technology businesses in general are susceptible to hacking. That's why you have to work really, really, really hard with law enforcement, with security experts, internal and external groups, to make sure you're paying attention and addressing security concerns. ~ Evan Spiegel

Very rarely is there a spike in news-stand sales. ~ David Remnick

(That was when the sprint on vampirism had been proposed and unanimously actioned as an emergency spike.) ~ Charles Stross

I don't know if its really important, or intelligent even, when people say to me I'm a white Spike Lee, because they said to Spike Lee you're a black Woody Allen. ~ Mathieu Kassovitz

I like people to look like they're floating. ~ Spike Lee

Any conversation I have with anybody that's real is always revealing and inspiring. ~ Spike Jonze

In the Philippines around 1916, an offensive style of passing the ball in a high trajectory to be struck by another player-the set and spike-was introduced. These players also developed the bomba, or kill, and called the hitter the bomberino. ~ Bonnie Kenny

I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out. ~ Spike Jonze

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances. ~ Spike Jonze

And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels. ~ Spike Lee

'Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do. ~ Randy Couture

When you're close to somebody, you can never really know how they're experiencing the world. ~ Spike Jonze

Amongst black people, you have always heard it said that once a black man reaches a certain level, especially if you are an entertainer, you get a white trophy woman. I didn't make that up. ~ Spike Lee

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. ~ Brian Cox