Killers quotes
187 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is."
"You got to have the killer instinct. If you do not have it, forget about basketball and go into social psychology or something. If you sometimes wonder if you've got it, you ain't got it. No pussycats, please."
"How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in."
"I never tried to be a mercenary or a killer but a hard working fighter."
"If you believe that I'm a cop killer, you believe David Bowie is an astronaut."
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"It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila."
"The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted."
"He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survive."
"In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die."
"Fear is the mind-killer."
"Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience."
"I 'aint a killer but don't push me."
"The killer looked up as the bullet hit him. He looked as if he were puzzled by some strange occurence, being too freshly dead to be aware of it."
"America is still the No. 1 killer in the world."
"Fear is a killer, when it comes to the creative process."
"I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now ."
"An anaesthetic is a poet-killer."
"It's a pretty big shock to realise that the only people you can identify with are psychopathic killers."
"Suicide is the #1 killer of a person who is in a boat and happens to be passing under a bridge at the wrong time."
"Unless carefree, mother love was a killer."
"As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles."
"Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today."
"It's a family that's loaded with grudges and passion. We come from a long line of robbers and highwaymen in Italy, you know. Killers, even."
"What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?"
"A lot of really good directors have a killer in them, as if they'd do anything to get that image. But that comes with the terrain and I don't mind it."
