Whiplash Quotes

• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.
  The animal wrests the whip from its master and whips itself in order to become master, not knowing that this is only a fantasy produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

  Franz Kafka

  Animal, Order, Knowing

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• There are no two words in the English language more harmful than good job.

  J.K. Simmons

  Jobs, Two, Language

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• The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Motive, Ulterior Motive

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

  Ted Nugent

  Spiritual, Eye, Musical

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?

  Sojourner Truth

  Mother, Strong Women, Jesus

  Sojourner Truth, “Ain't I A Woman?”

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• She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Mom, Mother, Strong

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• When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

  Hugh Bonneville

  Eye, Storm, Eye Of The Storm

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's like they talk about how American actors have the method and English actors just kind of switch views faster. And John [Hurt] is telling me the story as he's sitting in that witness chair, and they're putting the final touches of makeup on. And he goes, "Hold on a second," to stop his story so he can do the take. And he does this incredible take. They go, "Cut." And then immediately John goes, "Anyways, so Alec, he's playing the chess." And I'm just going, "Holy crap." You get whiplash from those kinds of quick turns!

  Judd Nelson

  Hurt, Cutting, Makeup

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I see a good film, it's like a whiplash. I run away, in order not to be influenced. Thus, the films I liked most are those I think least about.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Running, Thinking, Order

  Source: scrapsfromtheloft.com

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• There was a time when doing "Zoolander 2" that I was literally flying between the "Zoolander" shoot and "The Leftovers" in Texas and at that point, I was getting comedy whiplash. It was a relief, though, to get to Rome and be like, "Oh my God, I get to laugh on set."

  Justin Theroux

  Texas, Rome, Laughing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

  Feist

  Style, Origami, Assuming

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.

  Jonathan Hull

  Monday, Tired, Fate

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.

  Cesare Pavese

  Art, Pain, Suffering

  Cesare Pavese (2017). “This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950”, p.207, Routledge

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• It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down.

  Emile Hirsch

  Ties, Giving, Challenges

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• I was in good shape from Divergent. Damien Chazelle, the director of Whiplash told me, 'Stop Working Out! Don't go outside!' He wanted me pale and doughy. This is the first movie where I shut myself off from the world. It was, by far, the hardest thing I've ever done.

  Miles Teller

  Work Out, Divergent, Directors

  "Poor Miles Teller Said Doing 'Divergent' Made Him Feel 'Dead Inside' :-(" by Heather Dockray, uproxx.com. September 24, 2013.

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• Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Mother, Men, Squares

  Mario Vargas Llosa (2011). “The War of the End of the World”, p.331, Macmillan

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• There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.

  Agatha Christie

  Energy, Hung

  Agatha Christie (1965). “Poirot loses a client”, Dell Pub Co

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• I’d only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff

  Sarah Dessen

  Sexy, Hair, Style

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “Dreamland”, p.128, Penguin

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• It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.

  Janet Fitch

  Beach, Art, Flower

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