James Patterson Quotes

I think the time has changed. Because of 9/11, because of the economy, it is more and more now. There is a darker awareness, although it would seem to reason that because life is so much tougher now people would seek entertainment to just totally escape.

I don't want to talk about methods of killing. But what is the difference between a bomb worn on the body and one dropped from an airplane? Both of them kill people.

If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

What? You want us to kill people? Take lives? Not on my watch.

I felt people responded to two things. One, obviously, is the gore and the scenes like the eye gauging.

A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity?

Because we're not as serious about terrorism as we can be, people all across the globe feel like they can just murder innocent people.

Science leads you to killing people.

When people go at war they cheapen things.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

We see images of people being beheaded on TV. That's not a thing that you see all the time. That's a different kind of scary. Unfortunately, some of the scary stuff is political, and that's a change from our past.

When we talk about violence, we're talking about the destruction of the human body, and I don't lose sight of that. In general, my filmmaking is fairly body-oriented, because what you're photographing is people, bodies.

How do people come up with a date and a time to take life from another man? Who made them God?

We’ll be back!” he snarled. It was really Ari’s voice. Boy, you just can’t kill people like you used to,” said Fang

My advice to all young people who wish to become poets is: do something easy, like learning how to blow up the world - unless you're not only willing, but glad, to feel and work and fight till you die.

One man's gospel truth is another man's blasphemous lie. The dangerous thing about people is the way we'll try to kill anyone whose truth doesn't agree with ours.

Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.

Wow. I feel like in this riot of people, I have been kicked in the stomach, but by the giddy police. Forget about the need for oxygen. My mouth wants to go back to the place it just left.

… people didn't seem to be able to remember what it was like with the elves around. Life was certainly more interesting then, but usually because it was shorter. And it was more colorful, if you liked the color of blood.

People are easily shocked when their routine is disrupted and their ease of travel is restricted. We are dealing with a complete new face of terrorism - killing for the sake of killing.

Putting a bomb in a dumpster or putting it with a timer by a race, it is not the kind of - similar to the attacks that we've seen where people open fire with assault rifles and things like that.

For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen.