Jessica Sedig > Jessica's Quotes

“- My instructors in science and technology have taught us about how the brain works. It's full of electrical impulses. It's like a computer. If you stimulate one part of the brain with an electrode, it...
- They know nothing.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“My mind," he said, "rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four

“What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

“Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, Éowyn!”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
― Socrates

“What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.”
― Confucius

“People love a happy ending. So every episode, I will explain once again that I don't like people. And then Mal will shoot someone. Someone we like. And their puppy.”
― Joss Whedon

“There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'.”
― Joss Whedon

“I cannot abide useless people.”
― joss whedon

“I also felt that Ron and Hermione would have gotten divorced. I'm sorry, I just do. The end of Harry Potter did feel ultimately to me...just the fact everybody had married everybody. The books were so real and so grounded in what things are really like when you're that age, she nailed that so beautifully. And then there was this slightly fantastical ending. I know that was there for her to say, 'Really, I mean it, no more books,' but you do sort of go, people who were in a war are different from people who haven't been, and how does it affect them? But am I going to second-guess my favorite writer? I think not.”
― Joss Whedon

“Uh, hey, I got a idea. Instead of us hanging around playing art critic 'til I get pinched by the man, how's about we move away from this eerie-ass piece of work, and get on with our increasingly eerie-ass day. How's that?”
― Joss Whedon

“Everything I do is going to contain the message that men who are going to be comfortable with powerful women are going to be more powerful men”
― Joss Whedon

“Sadly, I hate foreigners. And Americans. And animals. And flora, and some fauna. Also the magma that is the very core of this our mother earth. I'm full o' hate!”
― Joss Whedon

“I mean, I knew I wasn't a nice person, but what did I do in my past life to deserve this? I must have hit a bus full of nuns while driving a stolen car on my way to selling drugs to schoolchildren!”
― Joss Whedon

“Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they might stop telling you that a little bit. Whatever you think of the movie, it’s done a great service. And after The Avengers, I think it’s changing.
Johansson: A lot of the female superhero movies just suck really badly.
Whedon: The suck factor is not small.
Johansson: They are really not well made, and already you’re fighting against the tide. There are a couple [female-driven action movies] that have worked-ish, don’t you think?
Hemsworth: Angelina Jolie tends to do it pretty well, as the dominant female.
Jackson: They got to get The Pro to the screen!
Whedon: [Groaning] See, that is the problem. Sam is the problem!
Jackson: I love that book!
Whedon: [Reluctantly] The Pro is hilarious.
Jackson: The Pro’s hilarious. [To the group] You ever see or hear of it?
Johansson: No, what’s The Pro?
Jackson: It’s [a comic book] about a hooker who gets super powers!
Johansson: [Pauses] That is exactly the problem right there.
Whedon: That’s why I wasn’t going to bring up The Pro!

(From an Entertainment Weekly interview)”
― Joss Whedon

“In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness...but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.”
― Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 8, Vol. 2: No Future for You

“What's plan b?'
'We all die now.'
'What's plan c?”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 4: Unstoppable

“When Roseanne read the first script of mine that got into her hands without being edited by someone else she said, 'How can you write a middle-aged woman this well?' I said, 'If you met my mom you wouldn't ask'.”
― Joss Whedon

“I really like beer.”
― Joss Whedon

“I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted

“You can't just throw people at all your problems, dear.”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

“Diplomatic #@@@@@##%%%%#%%%%@@@@@@$$$$$####!!! Immunity?”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted

“I’m assuming you’re as mystified by this as the rest of us, Rasputin.

No. I’m not. I have been planning to destroy the Breakworld since I was a child.

[silence]

This is why I don’t make so many jokes. I never know when is good.”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 4: Unstoppable

“I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.”
― Joss Whedon

“Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you.

I know the feeling.”
― Joss Whedon

“Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted

“That all you got...Bub?”
― Joss Whedon, Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 2: Dangerous

“That wouldn't be a first, now would it?"

"Jean."

"Jean Grey is dead, Agent."

"Yeah, that'll last.”
― Joss Whedon , Astonishing X-Men, Vol. 1: Gifted

“A vague disclaimer is nobody's friend”
― Joss Whedon