Quotes tagged ‘Plague’
(8 total)
“You make me sick with your heroics! There's a stench of death about you. You carry it in your pack like the plague. Explosives and L-pills—they go well together, don't they? And with you it's just one thing or the other: destroy a bridge or destroy yourself. This is just a game, this war! You and Co…”
— Carl Foreman, Michael Wilson, Cmdr. Shears, William Holden, imdb.com
“He's plague, he's smallpox, he's typhoid. I don't want to follow his goddamn show. I want out of that 8 o'clock spot. I've got enough troubles without Howard Beale as a lead-in. You guys scheduled me up against 'Tony Orlando and Dawn,' NBC's got 'Little House on the Prairie,' ABC's got 'The Bionic W…”
— Paddy Chayefsky, Laureen Hobbs, Marlene Warfield, imdb.com
“[in the Senate where all the senators are gathered] Gracchus: But the Senate is the people, Sire, chosen from among the people, to speak for the people. Commodus: I doubt if many of the people eat so well as you do, Gracchus, or have such splendid mistresses Gaius. I think I understand my own people…”
— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Senator Gracchus:, Derek Jacobi, imdb.com
“War, earthquake, winds, fire, famine, the plague. Year after year, it's been nothing but disasters. And bandits descend upon us every night. I've seen so many men getting killed like insects, but even I have never heard a story as horrible as this. Yes. So horrible. This time, I may finally lose my…”
— Akira Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto, Priest, Minoru Chiaki, imdb.com