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David S. Goyer Quotes

Total quotes: 34
“It’s not who you are underneath, it’s what you do that defines you.”
— Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
Tagged: Behavior
“If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.”
— Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins
Tagged: Manliness, Ideal
“Men fall from the sky and gods hurl thunderbolts. Innocents die. That’s how it starts. The fever, the rage, the feeling of powerlessness that turns good men…cruel.”
— Alfred Pennyworth, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Fallen Angels, innocents, thunderbolts, Fever, Rage, Powerlessness, cruel
“Criminals are like weeds, Alfred. Pull one up, another grows in its place.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Criminals, Weeds
“Do you know the oldest lie in America, Senator? It’s that power can be innocent.”
— Lex Luthor, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Lie, Power, Innocence
“Next time they shine your light in the sky, don’t go to it. The Bat is dead. Bury it. Consider this mercy.”
— Clark Kent / Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Bury, dead, Mercy
“Man is still good. We fight. We kill. We betray one another. But we can rebuild. We can do better. We will. We have to.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Fight, Kill, build, Betrayal
“It’s true what they say about little boys: born with no natural inclination to share.”
— Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: boys, sharing, Anti-Male
“ [pulling the pin out of a UV grenade] You obviously do not know who you are fucking with!”
— Blade, Blade II
Tagged: Threat, grenade, Fucking
“Mark Wayne: Everything tastes like chicken, you notice that? Frog legs, snakes... even rabbits taste like chicken.

Charnetski: Everything except this shit.”
— David S. Goyer, Demonic Toys
Tagged: Tastes Like Chicken, Shit
“Be their hero, Clark. Be their monument, be their angel, be anything they need you to be. Or be none of it. You don’t owe this world a thing. You never did.”
— Martha Kent, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Hero, monument, angel
“It’s like a one-man reign of terror. This bat vigilante has been consistently targeting the port and the adjacent projects and tenements.”
— Clark Kent / Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: reign of terror, vigilante, Projects
“All this time. I’ve been living my life the way my father saw it. Mending wrongs for a ghost. Thinking I’m here to do good. Superman was never real. It’s just a dream of a farmer from Kansas.”
— Clark Kent / Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Kansas, Farmer, Ghost
“Twenty years in Gotham, Alfred. We’ve seen what promises are worth. How many good guys are left. How many stay that way.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: promises, Good Guys, Corruption
“We’re criminals, Alfred. We’ve always been criminals, nothing’s changed.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Criminals
“Deep down you may still be that same great kid you used to be. But it's not who you are underneath, it's what you do that defines you.”
— Rachel Dawes, Batman Begins
Tagged: Behavior
“The world needs to know what happened in that desert. And to know what he stands for. How far will he take his power. Does he act by our will, or by his own.”
— Senator Finch, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Power, Will, tyranny
“You will fly to him, and you will battle him to the death. Black and blue. Fight night! The greatest gladiator match in the history of the world. God versus man. Day versus night. Son of Krypton versus Bat of Gotham!”
— Lex Luthor, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: fly, Battle, Death, black and blue, Gladiator, krypton, Gotham
“The bells are already been rung, and they’ve heard it. Out in the dark, among the stars. Ding dong, the God is dead.”
— Lex Luthor, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: bells, ding dong
“I won’t kill you…but I won’t have to save you.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman Begins
Tagged: Mercy, Murder, Salvation
“The first time I stole so that I wouldn’t starve, yes. I lost many assumptions about the simple nature of right and wrong. And when I traveled, I learned the fear before a crime and the thrill of success. But I never became one of them.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman Begins
Tagged: Stealing, Right And Wrong
“I bet your parents taught you that you mean something, that you’re here for a reason. My parents taught me a different lesson, dying in the gutter for no reason at all. They taught me the world only makes sense if you force it to.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Parents, gutter
“My world doesn’t exist anymore.”
— Clark Kent / Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Nihilism
“Man made a world where standing together is impossible.”
— Diana Prince / Wonder Woman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: standing together
“This is my world. You are my world.”
— Clark Kent / Superman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: World, Obsession
“Nobody cares about Clark Kent taking on the Batman.”
— Perry White, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Nobody Cares, Apathy
“Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice-skate uphill.”
— Blade, Blade
Tagged: Motherfuckers, Against All Odds
“People need dramatic examples to shake them out of apathy and I can’t do that as Bruce Wayne. As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed, but as a symbol…as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman Begins
Tagged: Symbols, incorruptible, dramatic, Apathy, Everlasting
“People hate what they don’t understand.”
— Martha Kent, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Hate, Ignorance
“Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society’s understanding.”
— Henri Ducard / Ra's al Ghul, Batman Begins
Tagged: Criminals, Indulgence
“Create enough hunger and everyone becomes a criminal.”
— Henri Ducard, Batman Begins
Tagged: Hunger, criminal
“You don’t get to decide what the right thing is.”
— Perry White, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Right thing, Autonomy
“You’re not brave. Men are brave.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Brave, Men
“I’ve failed him in life. I won’t fail him in death.”
— Bruce Wayne / Batman, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Tagged: Failure, Life, Death, Regret
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