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Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Total quotes: 53
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
— Stanley Kubrick, via Wikiquote
Tagged: schools, Teaching, Fear, motivation, Learning
“It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.”
— Stanley Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick: Essays on His Films and Legacy
Tagged: love and pity, Love & Relationships
“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don’t want.”
— Stanley Kubrick, Inspiring Stanley Kubrick Quotes About Filmmaking
Tagged: Wants, preferences, knowing yourself, self, Inspirational
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.”
— Stanley Kubrick, The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
Tagged: Darkness, Positivity, struggles, Problems
“Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in. [axes the door]”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: pigs, huff and puff, three little pigs
“I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon, Tikmbuktu, Goddamned, Bartender
“What you got back home, little sister, to play your fuzzy warbles on? I bet you got little save pitiful, portable picnic players. Come with uncle and hear all proper! Hear angel trumpets and devil trombones. You are invited.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Music, sound system
“Gentlemen of the court, there are times that I'm ashamed to be a member of the human race and this is one such occasion.”
— Col. Dax, Paths of Glory
Tagged: Best Military Movies, Shame, human race
“It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Viddy, Colors
“I woke up. The pain and sickness all over me like an animal. Then I realized what it was. The music coming up from the floor was our old friend, Ludwig Van, and the dreaded Ninth Symphony.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Pain, sickness, Beethoven, Beethoven's Ninth
“We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: shagged, fagged, fashed, Tired
“I jumped, O my brothers, and I fell hard but I did not snuff it, oh no. if I had snuffed it, I would not be here to tell what I have told.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: suicide attempt
“Alex: Hey dad, there's a strange fella sittin' on the sofa munchy-wunching lomticks of toast.

Dad: That's Joe. He lives here now. The lodger, that's what he is. He rents your room.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: surrogate son
“Bobby: I had my first wet dream in a sleepin' bag.

Ed: How was it?

Bobby: Great. [pause] There's no repeatin' it.”
— Bobby Trippe, Deliverance
Tagged: wet dream, camping
“God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drink, Soul, Beer, Goddamned
“Lloyd: What will you be drinking, sir?

Jack Torrance: Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drinking, hair of the dog
“I am Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your senior drill instructor. From now on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of your filthy sewers will be 'Sir.' Do you maggots understand that?”
— Gny. Sgt. Hartman, Full Metal Jacket
Tagged: Best Military Movies, Maggots, Drill Sergeant
“Lloyd: Women: can't live with them, can't live without them.

Jack Torrance: Words of wisdom, Lloyd my man. Words of wisdom.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Women, Words of Wisdom
“[staring at the drink in his hand] Here's to five miserable months on the wagon, and all the irreparable harm it has caused me.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Alcoholism, on the wagon
“Ho, ho, ho! Well, if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: yarbles, balls, poison, insults
“Sometimes the truth of the thing is not so much in the think of it, but in the feel of it.”
— Stanley Kubrick, 2001: Filming the Future
Tagged: Truth, Feeling, Intuition, Gut, Thinking, Mind
“Wendy, listen. Let me out of here and I'll forget the whole damn thing! It'll be just like nothing ever happened. Wendy, baby, I think you hurt my head real bad. I'm dizzy, I need a doctor. Honey, don't leave me here.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: dizzy, pleading, Begging
“Larry, just between you and me, we got a very serious problem with the people taking care of the place. They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes.”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: Assholes, Unreliable
“[about Wendy]
Delbert Grady: I feel you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, Mr. Torrance.

Jack Torrance: There's nothing I look forward to with greater pleasure, Mr. Grady.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Pleasure, punishment
“Come out, come out, whereever you are.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Threat
“The only film of mine that I don’t like is Spartacus”
— Stanley Kubrick, Work and life of Stanley Kubrick
Tagged: film
“I was cured, all right!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: cured, atavism
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: Beethoven, bliss, Gorgeousness
“Oh bliss! Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now. As I slooshied, I knew such lovely pictures!”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: bliss, Heaven, Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven's 9th
“Here's Johnny!”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Johnny Carson
“White Man's Burden, Lloyd, my man! White Man's Burden.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: white man's burden, rudyard kipling
“Jack Torrance: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize ya. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh, chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out.

Delbert Grady: That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: caretaker, Murder, Amnesia
“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep for ever, and ever and ever.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: suicide attempt, cruel world, Pain
“I was excited by everything about [A Clockwork Orange]: the plot, the ideas, the characters, and, of course, the language. The story functions, of course, on several levels: political, sociological, philosophical, and, what's most important, on a dreamlike psychological-symbolic level”
— Stanley Kubrick, Work and life of Stanley Kubrick
Tagged: film
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: all work and no play
“Some places are like people: some shine and some don't.”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: Places, People, Shine
“No time for the old in-out, love, I've just come to read the meter.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: the old in-out
“Minister: As I was saying, Alex, you can be instrumental in changing the public verdict. Do you understand, Alex? Have I made myself clear?

Alex: As an unmuddied lake, friend. As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer. You can rely on me, friend.”
— Alexander DeLarge, A Clockwork Orange
Tagged: clear, unmuddied lake
“[smashing the door to bits with an axe] Wendy, I'm home.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: scary, axe
“Danny Torrance: Dad?

Jack Torrance: Yes?

Danny Torrance: Do you like this hotel?

Jack Torrance: Yes, I do. I love it. Don't you?

Danny Torrance: I guess so.

Jack Torrance: Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever... and ever... and ever.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: hotel, Forever
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