Words matter. These are the best Extremity Quotes from famous people such as Meg Rosoff, George Packer, Meriwether Lewis, John Hillcoat, Lucy Walker, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Teenagers are very dark, I think. That’s all the goth and emo stuff. They’re experiencing a lot of stuff that adults experience, but in a much more raw way. It’s that extremity that I’m interested in, to be able to go down so far and come up so quickly.
In the extremity of war, character is revealed.
We procured from an Indian a weasel perfectly white except the extremity of the tail which was black: great numbers of wild geese are passing to the south, but their flight is too high for us to procure any of them.
Unfortunately, I’ve seen violence, and I think, in films, it is the dramatic extremity of it.
I find titles the hardest thing. I was worried that ‘Waste Land’ was too much of a downer. For me, ‘The Crash Reel’ confronts what the film is about: it’s not just about the reality of a crash, it’s about the extremity we all face, and what happens when life crashes on you.
Stories about vicars are always being told because they’re at the heart of our society. Vicars touch all parts of the community and see life in all its extremity.
While women may look different, as some wear suits and others wear saris, or some cover their hair while others wear their hair loose, women need to stand together because they all face the central point of discrimination, although the extremity of which may be different from Kigali to Kabul.
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.
I’m interested in the dark side of man. I’m interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more ‘normal’ characters by forcing a comparison.
Man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.
Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth – look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Sometimes I think my purpose is as a saboteur when I’m working with other people, derailing what they’re trying to do or taking things to a ludicrous extremity.
