Anyone Can Die/Quotes

A phone on the table
A man on your side
Someone that you think that you can trust
Is just
Another way to die

—Quantum of Solace

Congratulations to Game of Thrones, nominated for 19 Emmys, including Best Drama, Best Supporting Actor, and Worst Job Security. If you’re an actor on Game of Thrones I bet you wait for next week’s script the way most people wait for biopsy results. “I think you better sit down: Your character has been invited to a wedding.”

—Seth Meyers, 66th Emmys

Shows like Game of Thrones, The Good Wife, and Fargo have the right idea: When you show starts getting some attention and critical acclaim, kill off all the main characters. Otherwise, before you know it, you’re paying Shel don a million dollars an episode.

—Seth Meyers, 66th Emmys

"Sometimes it's hard to understand the drift of things. This was a good boy. He'd have been a good man. He didn't get his chance. Death can come for ya any place, any time. It's never welcomed. But if you've done all you can do, and it's your best, in a way I guess you're ready for it."

—Wil Andersen, The Cowboys

"This is the 'GASH' Pacifier Baton. One metre of oscillating carbon fibre and ceramic and your best friend on the street. Now, the Baton can be used in a defensive manner to block knife and club blows like so... but the primary purpose of the baton is offensive. Can we have a test subject, please? And you axe?"
"Alan Connelly."
"So, what do you do Alan?"
"Watch t.v."
"Right, now Alan is going to be my arrest subject in which I will use the full potential of the GASH baton to restrain him."
"Pardon?"
"Now Alan, I want you to be a mugger."
"A what?"
"All will become clear. Now, you have just killed an old lady, robbed her of all her money and now you've just been stopped by the Shivers, namely me. I want you to react in a violent manner and be, in general, abusive. Okay?"
"Eh, I'm not sure but I'll try. I still get my 50 don't I?"
"Yes, now we may proceed."
"Up yours, you god damn Shiver scu..."
Thud! Thump! Crack! Thud!
"Now, this is the result of a civilian coming up against a well trained Shiver with a Pacifier Baton. Please report to your tutors for your assignments. Bates, Henderson... you two get this corpse out of here. It's bleeding on the crash mats."
Commander Cradle giving an introductory talk to trainee Shivers about the use of a Pacifier Baton, Mort 897 SD.

—SLA Industries core rule book

"For though Eru appointed to you to die not in Eä, and no sickness may assail you, yet slain ye may be, and slain ye shall be: by weapon and by torment and grief..."

—The Doom of the Noldor in The Silmarillion

"If anything in this life is certain; if history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone."

—Michael Corleone, The Godfather

"How is it that...the character that you portray as the central main character...as the protagonist of this fucking series...not to mention, Sean Bean is probably the highest...is probably among the highest if not THE highest paid actor on your payroll! He's on all the advertisements. Your press photos. He's on the goddamn cover of the FUCKING BOOK! And he doesn't make it past season one?!"

—Larry Williams, speaking of Game of Thrones

"We are here for only a moment, visitors and strangers in the land as our ancestors were before us. Our days on Earth are like a shadow, gone so soon without a trace."

—King David Chronicles

"Anyone can be killed."

—Arya Stark, Game of Thrones

"Military fiction in which only bad people—the ones the readers want to die—die and the heroes don't suffer agonizing personal losses isn't military fiction: it's military pornography. Someone who write [sic] military fiction has a responsibility to show the human cost, particular [sic] because so few of his readers may have any personal experience with that cost.

—David Weber, while discussing the Honor Harrington series

"In the real world, people die. And no self-promoting asshole in a fucking leotard can stop it!"

—Wolverine, Logan

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