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Noah Hawley Quotes

Total quotes: 51
“I don’t care if you save me or the world if you don’t save yourself.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 8
Tagged: Saving The World, Saving Yourself, Save Yourself
“Gus Grimly: They're gonna give me a citation for bravery.

Greta Grimly: You? Come on, you're afraid of spiders.

Gus Grimly: Buzz Aldrin was afraid of spiders, and he went into space.”
— Greta Grimly, Fargo, Season 1: Morton's Fork
Tagged: Buzz Aldrin, Spiders, Arachnophobia, Bravery
“Do what you want. Take what you want. Gods make rules. They don’t follow them.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 15
Tagged: God, Do what you want
“Son, I could fill out a steamer trunk with the amount of stupid I think you are.”
— Hank Larrson, Fargo, Season 2: Rhinoceros
Tagged: Stupid, insults, Sick Burns
“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
“Your problem is you spent your whole life thinking there are rules. There aren't.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Crocodile's Dilemma
Tagged: Rules, Anarchy
“If evidence is collected, if confessions are made, if a verdict of guilty is entered in a court of law, then its happening becomes as the rocks and rivers, and to argue that it didn’t happen is to argue with reality itself.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: Somebody to Love
Tagged: evidence, Confessions, guilty, Rivers
“I know things that would curdle your blood, including a formula that literally curdles blood.”
— Jack Hodgins, Bones, Season 1: The Woman in the Car
Tagged: blood-curdling, Literally
“When you become my age, you realize it’s not about the thing done. It’s the beauty of the plan.”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 13
Tagged: The Plan, beauty, Trust The Process
“It’s just Thursday. My 260th Thursday as a passenger on the cruise ship Mental Health.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 1
Tagged: Mental Illness, Mental Health, Schizophrenia
“Is it such a terrible thing to feel sorrow for your enemy? What is he, except a brother with another name?”
— Amahl Farouk, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 11
Tagged: enemies, Enemy, Loving Your Enemy
“Nikki Swango: Ray, there's a man in my bathroom.

Ray Stussy: Let's not jump to any conclusions.

Nikki Swango: Are you saying he's not a man or he's not in my bathroom?”
— Nikki Swango, Fargo, Season 3: The Law of Vacant Places
Tagged: Misheard, jumping to conclusions
“Mister, we're not friends. I mean, maybe we will be someday. But I gotta say, if that were me in your position? I would have killed that man.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Crocodile's Dilemma
Tagged: Friends, Empathy
“Saint Lawrence. Patron saint of hard asses. Burned alive by the Romans. You know what he said? ‘Turn me over. I'm done on this side.’ That's a goddamn saint.”
— Stavros Milos, Fargo, Season 1: A Muddy Road
Tagged: Saint Lawrence, Romans, Burned Alive, Bravery, Hard Asses
“Well, I'm saying that the Romans raised by wolves, they see a guy turning water into wine, what do they do? They eat him. 'Cause there are no saints in the animal kingdom. Only breakfast and dinner.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Six Ungraspables
Tagged: saints, Animal Kingdom, Romans, wolves
“This is a community. People watch each other's backs. Someone gets sick, someone dies, you bring a casserole, help.”
— Ari Ziskind, Fargo, Season 1: The Six Ungraspables
Tagged: Community, help
“Madam, it’s just lazy to steal from someone without knowing their name.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy
Tagged: Theft, steal, Lazy, Rude
“Postal Worker: This is highly irregular.

Lorne Malvo: No, highly irregular is the time I found a human foot in a toaster oven. This is just odd.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: The Rooster Prince
Tagged: Irregular, dismemberment
“Molly Solverson: You talk a lot, you know that?

Lou Solverson: It's always been a problem.”
— Molly Solverson, Fargo, Season 1: The Rooster Prince
Tagged: Problem, talking
“Burt Canton: She stopped putting it in her mouth soon as the ring went on her finger.

Lorne Malvo: Well, that's a national tragedy, Burt.”
— Lorne Malvo, Fargo, Season 1: A Fox, a Rabbit, and a Cabbage
Tagged: blowjobs, Marriage, Dead Bedrooms, national tragedy
“Rye Gerhardt: I'm a man.

Dodd Gerhardt: You're the comic in a piece of bubble gum!”
— Dodd Gerhardt, Fargo, Season 2: Waiting for Dutch
Tagged: Man, Bubble Gum, comic, Insult, unmanly
“Do you know what the saddest words are in the English language? 'Vacant lot.'”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 9
Tagged: Empty, Sad, Words, English Language
“You can make someone do what they don’t want to do, but there’s no force on Earth that makes you enjoy it.”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 18
Tagged: Forcing Something, force, Human Nature
“Well, kid, you better learn to fly like a bird, because the age of the dinosaur is over.”
— Melanie Bird, Legion, Season 1: Chapter 8
Tagged: Learning, Learn To Fly
“Life, Dad said, was a Hail Mary. You only got one shot at it, and if you didn't train every day -- with wind sprints and grass drills -- you would blow it.”
— Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
Tagged: Football, Life, practice
“A private plane sits on a runway in Martha's Vineyard, forward stairs deployed.”
— Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
Tagged: first lines of books
“You have kids and you think I made you, so we're the same, but it's not true. You just get to live with them for a while and maybe help them figure things out.”
— Noah Hawley, Before the Fall
Tagged: Children, Parenting, kids
“It’s a war, baby, this life. The things we endure. You said you saw the future, and it’s an apocalypse. Who survives that, the lovers or the fighters? They sell us this lie that love’s gonna save us. All it does is make us stupid and weak.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 12
Tagged: Life, Life And Love, Love
“Love is what we have to save if we’re gonna save the world.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 16
Tagged: Love, Saving The World, Save Love
“We're only as good as the promises we keep.”
— Stavros Milos, Fargo, Season 1: The Six Ungraspables
Tagged: Good, promises
“Peggy Blomquist: We got a plan, you know?

Constance Heck: The word 'we' is a castle, hon, with a moat and a drawbridge. And you know what gets locked up in castles?

Peggy Blomquist: Dragons?

Constance Heck: Princesses. Don't be a prisoner of ‘we.’”
— Peggy Blomquist, Fargo, Season 2: Before the Law
Tagged: plans, castles, dragons, Prisoner
“Noreen Vanderslice: Camus says knowing we're all gonna die makes life a joke.

Ed Blomquist: So what, you just—you just give up?

Noreen Vanderslice: You could kill yourself, get it over with.”
— Ed Blomquist, Fargo, Season 2: The Gift of the Magi
Tagged: Albert Camus, Suicide, Life, Existentialism, Give Up, Surrender
“Things of consequence rarely happen by accident.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: The Lord of No Mercy
Tagged: accident, coincidence
“Love isn’t gonna save us. It’s what we have to save. Pain makes us strong enough to do it. All our scars, our anger, our despair, it’s armor. Baby, God loves the sinners best because our fire burns bright, bright, bright. Burn with me.”
— Syd Barrett, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 12
Tagged: Pain, Love, Love Won't Save You, Sinners
“I’m a good person. I deserve love.”
— David Haller, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 19
Tagged: I'm A Good Person, I Deserve Love, Love, Deserving Love
“Ask yourself: what’s more terrifying? Fear, or the frightened.”
— Narrator, Legion, Season 2: Chapter 15
Tagged: Fear, The Frightened
“Mike Milligan: Sovereignty is absolute power and authority.

Ricky G: Like a king?

Mike Milligan: Exactly. Which is who I am —your king.

Ricky G: Uh, it's America, brother. We don't do kings.”
— Mike Milligan, Fargo, Season 2: Palindrome
Tagged: Sovereignty, kings, Monarchy, America
“You're gonna think it's funny, but I always wanted to work for the post office. And be a mailman. I like that you get to see the same people every day. Bring 'em that check they've been waiting for. Presents for Christmas. You know, be part of the community.”
— Gus Grimly, Fargo, Season 1: Buridan's Ass
Tagged: Community, Christmas, Post Office, Mailman
“Lou Solverson: It's a diner robbery in Minnesota, Karl. Not a presidential assassination.

Karl Weathers: Oh, sure. That's how it starts—with something small, like a break-in at the Watergate Hotel. But just watch. This thing's only getting bigger.”
— Karl Weathers, Fargo, Season 2: Waiting for Dutch
Tagged: Presidential Assassination, Minnesota, Robbery, Watergate
“Very good. You just added a zero to your salary.”
— V.M. Vargas, Fargo, Season 3: Aporia
Tagged: salary raise
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