Philip Reeve Quotes

I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

You don't want madhouse and the whole thing there.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.

If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

The world is so crazy.

I make my world chaotic. It's like a whirlpool.

Usually for the last play, everyone goes helter-skelter. They go to the wrong spots. They don't do the right thing.

All we need to remember is that Trump loves the hate. He thrives on criticism and insults. He delights in chaos and confusion. Taking to Twitter to call him names only fuels him and riles his base.

The game is to have them all running about with fire extinguishers when there is a flood, and all crowding to that side of the boat which is already nearly gunwale under.

I flung open the door. I got a momentary flash of about a hundred and fifteen cats of all sizes and colours scrapping in the middle of the room, and then they all shot past me with a rush and out of the front door; and all that was left of the mobscene was the head of a whacking big fish, lying on the carpet and staring up at me in a rather austere sort of way, as if it wanted a written explanation and apology.

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo.... It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that form. In a word, it was nothing but a zoo, you can't put it better

Most of Set’s forces were running towards our boat, screaming and throwing rocks (which tended to fall down and hit them, but no one says demons are bright).

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded.

He was transfixed at the sight of the lords and ladies of his realm running about like demented chickens.

I've got a quote for you, a good quote to describe Television...In madness there is order.

Work, the what's-its-name of the thingummy and the thing-um-a-bob of the what d'you-call-it.

This is not anarchy, Eve. This is chaos.

One day, when I came home from work, I accidentally put my car key in the door of my apartment building. I turned it, and the whole building started up. So I drove it around. A policeman stopped me for going too fast. He said, "Where do you live?" I said, "Right here!" Then I drove my building onto the middle of a highway, and I ran outside, and told all of the cars to get the hell out of my driveway.

Nations with nations mix'd confus'dly die, and lost in one promiscuous carnage lie.