Quote

There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

Seth Grahame-Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Seth Grahame-Smith
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: January 4
Author
Executive Producer
Film Producer
Manufacturer
Novelist
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Rockville Centre
New York
Seth Jared Greenberg
Better
Fighting
Intention
Men
Faces
Havens
Time
Idea
Seek
Desire
Haven
War
Type
Death
Second
Two
Seen
Slightest
Ideas
Face
Types

More quotes by Seth Grahame-Smith

Image
Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank you,' said Elizabeth, composing herself, 'but I should rather my gown be soiled than my honor.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do for I shall not have my best warrior resigned to the service of a man who is fatter than Buddha and duller than the edge of a learning sword.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Movie characters rarely get to think out loud or talk very much about their emotions. Instead they have to, very briefly, show their feelings through their action or through dialog.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
put the car in d set the compass to n and get the fout of there
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Contrary to his infallibly honest image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Elizabeth sheathed her sword, knelt behind him, and strangled him to death with his own large bowel.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historical revisionist fiction, whatever you want to call it - mash-ups, gimmick lit, absurdist fiction - I don't know if I want to do that anymore.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
But I am happy. And happiness, I have decided, is a noble ambition.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
My day job is making TV shows.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.
Seth Grahame-Smith
Image
If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.
Seth Grahame-Smith