Best Whiplash Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Way Matter Whole Attention Too Much Fate Masters Mass Tired Hated Weekend Monday Reminding Deluded Respite Snapping Whiplash

Book:Losing Julia

Source: Losing Julia

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

Evil Motive Ulterior Motive Whiplash

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“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.”

Eye Spiritual Musical Brown Splits Apollo Kicking Cleansing Mics Whiplash

Author:Ted Nugent

“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."”

Laughing Comedy Flying Relief Texas Rome Leftovers Whiplash

Author:Justin Theroux

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

I Can Style Assuming Over It Looking Back Folds Origami Whiplash

Author:Feist

“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!”

Kind Doe Stories Turns Actors Can Do Hurt Views Cutting Holy Sitting Method Finals Incredibles Chess Witness Faster Chairs Makeup Crap Whiplash

Author:Judd Nelson

“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.”

Thinking Running Film Order Running Away Good Films Whiplash

Author:Michelangelo Antonioni

“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.”

“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”

Made Bigs Faces Found Sides Style Hair Mets Sexy Nervous Shock Tall Malls Whiplash

Book:Dreamland

Source: Dreamland

“There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.”

Energy Hung Whiplash

Book:Poirot loses a client

Source: Poirot loses a client

“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.”

Men Doe Enough Faces Mother Wife Sacred Remove Squares Slap Stains Whiplash

Book:The War of the End of the World

Source: The War of the End of the World

“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.”

Knows Firsts Kind Earth Mother Strong White Sun Wonderful Mom Rain Warm Gentle Generous Great Love Being A Mom Steadfast Whiplash

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“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?”

“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.”

World Firsts Done Wanted Shapes Directors Work Out Hardest Pale Hardest Thing Divergent Whiplash

Author:Miles Teller

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

Two Jobs Language Good Job English Language Whiplash

Author:J.K. Simmons

“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.”

Order Evil Animal Fantasy Knowing Masters Motive Not Knowing Whips Knots Ulterior Motive Whiplash

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“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.”

Giving Challenges Ties Whiplash

Author:Emile Hirsch

“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.”

Firsts May Art Pain Faces Suffering Forget Offers Intense Spots Bites Fangs Venom Whiplash

Book:This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

Source: This Business of Living: Diaries 1935-1950

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

Eye Storm Whiplash Eye Of The Storm

Author:Hugh Bonneville