Rage Quotes - Page 24

• I certainly do believe that a lot of comedy comes from awkwardness and embarrassment - pointing out the ways things are uncomfortable. Definitely the stuff that interests me. I don't necessarily think that comedy comes from a dark place, like you have to be a strung-out heroin addict. But I don't think it comes from happiness, that's for sure. It comes from frustration and suppressed rage, and wishing the world were different.

  Christian Finnegan

  Happiness, Believe, Dark

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. June 17, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Between 1995 and 2005, the prison population grew by 30 percent, meaning an additional half million criminals were behind bars, rather than lurking in dark alleys with switchblades. You can well imagine liberals' surprise when the crime rate went down as more criminals were put in prison. The New York Times was reduced to running querulous articles with headlines like Number in Prison Grows Despite Crime Reduction and As Crime Rate Drops, the Prison Rate Rises and the Debate Rages.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, New York, Dark

  Ann Coulter (2006). “Godless: The Church of Liberalism”, p.44, Crown Forum

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marketers keep inventing desires, necessities for you and for me. I need this. I need that. I need. I need. It's the need of a smoking fit. If you don't smoke that cigarette now, you'll die - when in reality you die because you succumb to the rage and rattle of the needy greed that keeps you busy needing more and more things. Is this the American Dream - the greedy need?

  Giannina Braschi

  Dream, Reality, Greed

  "United States of Banana". Book by Giannina Braschi, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• A day cannot live in infamy without the nourishment of rage. Let's have rage.

  Lance Morrow

  Infamy, Nourishment

  "The Case for Rage and Retribution". content.time.com. September 14, 2001.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know well that the greater and more beautiful the work is, the more terrible will be the storms that rage against it.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Beautiful, Storm, Terrible

  28 Copy quote

• When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?
  If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,
  Threatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?

  William Shakespeare

  Wind, Sea, Mad

  William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate (1995). “Titus Andronicus: Third Series”, p.201, Cengage Learning EMEA

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have a 14 year old daughter now. You know, it was that time in these kids lives when these girls are becoming women and the hormones are raging. They didn't know if The Beatles were any good, they just went for it 'cause The Beatles were attractive.

  Jack Jones

  Girl, Daughter, Kids

  4 Copy quote

• Understanding is the key to everything. To rage, fear, love. If you understand a situation, it's going to make you mad. Or it's going to make you feel fearful. If any of us even had a clue as to what Bush and those people were up to, we'd be running stark crazy mad out of fear.

  Jimmy Santiago Baca

  Running, Crazy, Keys

  Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Where words leave off, gesture begins. Don't we speak of a person being speechless with rage, dancing with impatience, setting his teeth? The final motions of the soul are speechless, animal, grotesque, or of an incomparable beauty.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Animal, Dancing, Soul

  Charlie Chaplin, Kevin J. Hayes (2005). “Charlie Chaplin: Interviews”, p.81, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't think about the end game. I've got lots to occupy my mind. It's the rage that keeps me going.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Games, Mind

  "'The best thing I ever did was stand up and say I have Alzheimer's': Terry Pratchett speaks to Fiona Phillips". Interview with Fiona Phillips, www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

  Max Lucado

  Humility, Apology, Axes

  Max Lucado (2008). “Cast of Characters: Lost and Found: Encounters with the Living God”, p.71, Thomas Nelson Inc

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm usually a mellow, go-with-the-flow person, except when someone tells me I should do something. Then I get stubborn. If they don't back off, I get this horrible rage and want to kill them. When I was four and my mom would send me to my room, I'd get so mad I'd go outside and bang my head on the sidewalk.

  Josie Maran

  Mom, Mad, Bangs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• My parents were very volatile but very loving. My father would get jealous if my mother looked at somebody. I used to be insanely jealous. It comes out of insecurity. It can come and go, but you get to the point in life where you don't have this raging jealousy and protectiveness about your world.

  Felicity Kendal

  Mother, Father, Jealous

  4 Copy quote

• Through much of the last century, America's faith in freedom and democracy was a rock in a raging sea. Now it is a seed upon the wind, taking root in many nations.

  George W. Bush

  Rocks, Wind, Sea

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between the present and the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Past, Nostalgia, Settling

  Don DeLillo (1999). “White Noise”, p.210, Penguin

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then.

  Dabo Swinney

  Football, White, Lame

  Source: theblacksheeponline.com

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• I project that this next election - the 2016 election - if it is about anything thematically, it is going to be about that sense of rage and displacement among white working-class voters.

  Joy-Ann Reid

  Class, White, Voters

  Source: www.msnbc.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the referendum. This leaves over a million of loyal, proud Scots disenfranchised. It gives me the rage.

  Damian Barr

  Scotland, Giving, Loyal

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Too, some of my teachers helped me to navigate those books, showed me the maps and paths and secret decoder rings - people like Linda Kintz and Forest Pyle and Mary Wood and Diana Abu Jaber. They didn't treat me like a messy writer girl in combat boots who had infiltrated the smart people room. They treated me like I deserved to be there, potty mouth and all, they helped make a space for me to rage and ride my own intellect. That's why I'm saying their names out loud.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Girl, Teacher, Smart

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways - literal, symbolic, you name it - that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Hipster, Journey, Names

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

  Laura Moriarty

  Beautiful, Real, Intelligent

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You could be attached to merely a description of a plant or a flower. Or a narrative of an event. Or rage at injustice. Isaiah and the other Hebrew prophets, in their rage, were being altogether attached - not at all detached, although as I think of the word "detachment," I also think of a sheet of paper, loose from its notebook, fluttering around somewhere in the wind trying to find its home again.

  Gerald Stern

  Notebook, Flower, Home

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has political roots.

  Kate Zambreno

  Roots, Political, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The technique of the book and the technique carried by the figure of Scheherazade is one of opening the Sultan's mind. He's emblematic of the ignorant person: the ignorant, lock-in, raging man who wants to kill all he doesn't understand. The model of the book is the extraordinary, very-large, Mirror of Princes.

  Marina Warner

  Book, Men, Mirrors

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Legitimate rage on the part of working men and women is directed not only towards government but, I think quite correctly, towards liberals, who speak in a very hypocritical language about caring for their interests and yet support institutions that carry out an assault against working men and women.

  Chris Hedges

  Caring, Men, Thinking

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source