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Steve Blackman Quotes

Total quotes: 40
“Peace is an illusion. And no matter how tranquil the world seems, peace doesn’t last long. Peace is a struggle against our very nature. A skin we stretch over the bone, muscle, and sinew of our own innate savagery.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: Peace, Illusion, Struggle, Human Nature
“The instinct of violence curls inside us like a parasite, waiting for a chance to feed on our rage and multiply until it bursts out of us.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: Violence, Instinct, Simile Examples, Parasite, Rage
“At its heart, violence is almost always, in one way or another, personal.”
— Quellcrist Falconer, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: heart, Violence, personal
“The ties that bind you together make you stronger than you are alone.”
— Sir Reginald Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals
Tagged: you're stronger than you think
“Jeb Cheney: You Minnesota boys don't got much in the way of backbone, now, do ya?

Hank Larsson: Well, now, I wouldn't say that. Just like to think things through.”
— Sheriff Hank Larsson, Fargo, Season 2: The Castle
Tagged: Minnesota, Backbone
“If you believe in yourself, just once, great things are gonna happen for you.”
— Vanya, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Number Five
Tagged: Believe In Yourself
“It is not our enemies that defeat us. It is our fear. Do not be afraid of the monsters, Miss Elizabeth. Make them afraid of you.”
— Poe, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Man with My Face
Tagged: enemies, Defeat, Fear, monsters, Afraid
“Diego: You know I can help you. 

Eudora: I know you give me agita.”
— Diego Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Run Boy Run
Tagged: you give me agita, i can help you
“I'm not nervous, I'm scared. I don't know how to talk to crazy people unless I'm dating them.”
— Angela Montenegro, Bones, Season 1: The Woman in the Tunnel
Tagged: Nervous, Scared, Crazy People
“Every society has its bottom-dwellers, and every society fears its bottom-dwellers, because they are a symbol of what happens in that society if you fail.”
— Temperance 'Bones' Brennan, Bones, Season 1: The Woman in the Tunnel
Tagged: Society, Bottom-Dwellers, Fear, Collapse
“Number Five: I'm not looking for happy.

The Handler: Oh...we're all looking for happy.”
— Number Five, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Number Five
Tagged: Happiness, we all want to be happy
“I think maybe you're the only person who really knows who I am and still likes me anyway. ”
— Allison Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: the person who knows me best, you still like me
“Number Five: I've decided you're the only one I can trust.

Vanya: Why me?

Number 5: Because you're ordinary. Because you'll listen.”
— Vanya, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals
Tagged: You're Ordinary, I can trust you
“If you're raised to believe if nothing about you is special, if the benchmark is extraordinary, what do you do if you're not?”
— Vanya, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Extra Ordinary
Tagged: Extraordinary
“Technology advances, but humans don’t. We’re smart monkeys, and what we want is always the same. Food, shelter, sex, and in all its forms, escape.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: technology advances, humans, smart monkeys, food, Shelter, Sex, escapes
“Number Five: The future. It's shit, by the way.

Klaus: Called it!”
— Klaus, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals
Tagged: the future is shit
“Rage at injustice is universal. The ability to strike back is not.”
— Quellcrist Falconer, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: Rage, Injustice, Universal, strike back
“One faulty cog and nothing works as it should.”
— The Handler, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: Cog , Machine, Metaphor
“Doctor: You're crazy.

Klaus: You got no idea.”
— Klaus, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Run Boy Run
Tagged: Crazy Family Members
“You are depriving some village of their idiot.”
— Klaus Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Number Five
Tagged: Village Idiot
“What's meant to be is meant to be. That's our raison d'être.”
— Number Five, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Number Five
Tagged: raison d'être, what's meant to be will be
“All the what-ifs start to haunt you.”
— Allison Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: what-ifs
“You don't have to apologize just for existing.”
— Leonard Peabody, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Man on the Moon
Tagged: Don't Apologize For Your Existence
“Sometimes men are unredeemable shits.”
— Allison, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Man on the Moon
Tagged: Men and Boys
“Ordinary is not a word I would use to describe you.”
— Leonard Peabody, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: Ordinary, description, Word, Special
“Eternal peace is probably overrated.”
— Klaus, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals
Tagged: Eternal Peace, Peace is Overrated
“We all wanted to be loved by a man incapable of giving love.”
— Vanya Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Extra Ordinary
Tagged: Incapable Of Love, Giving Love
“They're gone like a fart in the wind.”
— Klaus Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 2: Right Back Where We Started
Tagged: Gone, Simile Examples, Fart, Vanish
“Everyone I like is already dead.”
— Diego Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: dead, like, Enjoyment
“You don't get to blame your problems on anyone but yourself.”
— Allison, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Run Boy Run
Tagged: don't blame other people for your problems
“When something seems too perfect, it's usually anything but.”
— Allison Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Number Five
Tagged: Nothing Is Perfect
“I need a hit of sucrose. I'm heading to the vending machine.”
— Hazel, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: Sugar is addicting
“We didn't choose this life. We're just living in it.”
— Number Five, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: The Day That Wasn't
Tagged: we didnt choose this life, life choices
“One grows used to things, even if, sometimes one shouldn't.”
— Pogo, The Umbrella Academy, Season 1: Run Boy Run
Tagged: The Umbrella Academy, I'm Used To It
“A man who never loves gives no hostage to fortune.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Man with My Face
Tagged: Love, Hostage, Fortune
“War is the only thing we really understand.”
— Takeshi Kovacs, Altered Carbon, Season 1: Fallen Angel
Tagged: War, Understand, only thing
“That's the problem with a family business. Now, if one of my men defies me, puts a deal in jeopardy, I take his arm. If he talks out of turn, I take his tongue. But you, your children, your grandchildren...what are you willing to do to show us you're committed?”
— Joe Bulo, Fargo, Season 2: Fear and Trembling
Tagged: family business, Murder, dismemberment, Loyalty
“Anger is only fear turned inwards.”
— Angela Montenegro, Bones, Season 1: A Boy in a Bush
Tagged: Anger, Fear, Internalization
“I'm glad you finally found someone that treated you right.”
— Allison Hargreeves, The Umbrella Academy, Season 3: Meet the Family
Tagged: Love, Treated Right
“Simone Gerhardt: You know what depresses me? I missed the '60s—free love, drop acid, Woodstock. Wake up one day, decide you want to call yourself Flower Rainblossom, you just call yourself Flower Rainblossom.

Mike Milligan: Yeah, but the '70s were always coming, like a—what do you...A hangover. And you know what happened to Flower Rainblossom? She's on methadone in Bismarck, turning tricks for breakfast meat.

Simone Gerhardt: I know. But at least I would've had fun, be free like how you get to dream before you wake up.”
— Simone Gerhardt, Fargo, Season 2: Fear and Trembling
Tagged: 1960s, 1970s, woodstock, LSD, Hangover, Methadone, Bismarck
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