#blood

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water. ↗

— Rider Strong

#covered #days #falling #four #i

I value the blood of one Christian more than that of a hundred Indians. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#christian #hundred #i #indians #more

It's a standard staple in Japanese cinema to cut somebody's arm off and have red water hoses for veins, spraying blood everywhere. ↗

— Quentin Tarantino

#blood #cinema #cut #everywhere #hoses

Character, to me, is the life's blood of fiction. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#character #fiction #life #me

By blood a king, in heart a clown. ↗

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

#clown #heart #king

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink. ↗

— F. H. Bradley

#cold #dull #epigrams #experiences #fixed

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment. ↗

— Joel Coen

#birds #blood #bumper #car #flock

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#efficient #example #face #far #for example

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off? Or pretending? He let them fall. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#tears #blood