Quotes About Control

Kill if you will, but command me nothing!

Semi-automatics have only two purposes. One is so owners can take them to the shooting range once in awhile, yell yeehaw, and get all horny at the rapid fire and the burning vapor spurting from the end of the barrel. Their other use – their only other use – is to kill people

I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let her have her way on this one

Any system created by the mind of man can be hacked by the mind of man.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Writing controlled fiction is called "plotting." Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however…that is called "storytelling." Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.

Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

It was not just Danny the Overlook was working on. It was working on him, too. It wasn't Danny who was the weak link, it was him. He was the vulnerable one, the one who could be bent and twisted until something snapped.

Jack Torrance thought: Officious little prick.

If it's ka, it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone.

Murder is the worst kind of pornography, murder is let me do what I want taken to its final extreme.

In the end, all things, even the Beams, serve the Dark Tower. Did you think you would be any different?

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

He wanted what evil men always want: to have power and use that power to make mischief.

There's a gate in our heads, too-that's what I think. One that keeps the insanity in all of us from flooding our intellects. And at critical moments, it swings open and all kinds of weird shit comes flooding through.

You cant be too careful on a skateboard.

Try not to think of a polar bear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky once said, and you will see the cursed thing come to mind every minute.

Telekinesis is the ability to move objects or to cause changes in objects by force of the mind.

the powers that be have a way of outlawing many beautiful things made by ordinary people. I don't know why that should be, I only know it is.

We don't own things. Things own us.

Of course, the writer can impose control; It's just a really shitty idea. Writing controlled fiction is called plotting. Buckling your seatbelt and letting the story take over, however... that is called storytelling. Storytelling is as natural as breathing; plotting is the literary version of artificial respiration.

Leave it at this: man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that get in his way.