Tobe Quotes

No matter where you're going it's the wrong place. ~ Tobe Hooper

The stinging slap against her cheek whipped her head sideways. Her hand reflexively went to her burning face.
"I told you no," Tobe said, barely above a whisper.
Daphne had no words. He'd never so much as hinted at touching her in anger before. She now understood what stunned speechless meant. ~ Hunter Shea

I think the Chainsaw remake is very good and captures the spirit of the original film. It's true to the tone of the original, to the point that it's almost a companion piece. ~ Tobe Hooper

It takes time for people to grow. ~ Keiko Tobe

Just like this, the kids we raised slowly start growing up and away from us. We have to gradually let go of their hands for them to grow... but as parents we're reluctant... because the instant of letting go is just too harsh. Even though deep down, we know that we have to let go one day. ~ Keiko Tobe

The influences in my life were all kind of politically, socially implanted. And then there was Watergate. ~ Tobe Hooper

I'm always hoping that it will be his last tantrum. ~ Keiko Tobe

I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that. ~ Tobe Hooper

The Yoruba religion is the science of allowing God to flow through you, so that each breath becomes a prayer, and as God breathes, you breathe. ~ Tobe Melora Correal

Today is a good day, too. I say that every morning. It's so I don't get depressed and to encourage myself. ~ Keiko Tobe

I don't know when the Return of the Living Dead are happening. That's been on the Internet for years. ~ Tobe Hooper

Laughter sometimes hurts us, and sometimes it makes us feel better. No matter how down you feel... laughter brings a new ray of hope. Laughter brings happiness to the home. A smiling face is the best reward you can see. ~ Keiko Tobe

The films I liked were European films-Fellini, Antonioni, Truffaut. ~ Tobe Hooper

They are miserly, the princes of Austria, you need not grieve about it; they may not donate anything, but they allow themselves tobe fleeced, the good lords. ~ Franz Grillparzer

I noticed the dudes in the ambulance were staying put; I hoped they were calling for backup, or maybe somebody who could do an exorcism, or maybe my pal Stephen King, because if anybody on earth could figure a way out of this mess, it'd be Uncle Stevie. ~ Tobe Hooper

Autism isn't your fault. Each child has the ability to grow. Those words saved me from a dark place. ~ Keiko Tobe

Almost all accidents and injuries happen when an individual is not being present and not paying attention to what they are doing. ~ Tobe Hanson

I readan article by a highly educated man wherein he told with what conscientious pains he had brought up all his children tobe skeptical of everything, never to believe anything in life or religion or their own feelings without submitting it to many rational doubts, to have a persistent, thoroughly skeptical, doubting attitude toward everything ... I think he might as well have taken them out in the backyard and killed them with an ax. ~ Brenda Ueland

We must also consider the nature of prayer. It is curious that Christians are pushing so strenuously for prayer which they don't believe to he prayer. Christians pray to the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ-not to Allah, Krishna, or God-as-you-conceive-him/her-tobe. If we were successful in establishing Christian prayer in the
schools, we would be violating the religious liberties of those who are not Christians. If we establish prayer that is not Christian, what have we gained? Why fight to get prayer in the schools when you believe the prayers, once instituted, won't get past the ceiling? Do we really want our children led in a daily vain repetition? ~ Douglas Wilson

You can't get away, you can't escape. You'll jump through a plate-glass window several times and end up being right back in the spider's web. ~ Tobe Hooper

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy. ~ John H. Tobe

I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano. ~ Tobe Hooper

I had worked so hard for so long that I developed a speech impediment. It happens when I get tired. ~ Tobe Hooper

Encourage them to do what they can, and help them do what they cannot. ~ Keiko Tobe

I don't believe in using too much graphic violence, although I've done it. It's better to be suggestive and to allow the viewer to fill in the blanks in their minds. ~ Tobe Hooper

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out. ~ Tobe Hooper

To be kind is to respond with sensitivity and human warmth to the hopes and needs of others. Even the briefest touch of kindness can lighten a heavy heart. Kindness can change the lives of people"
~ Aung Sun Suu Kyi ~ Aung Sun Suu Kyi

The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce. ~ Tobe Hooper

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it. ~ Albion Fellows Bacon