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The Shining Quotes

“Larry, just between you and me, we got a very serious problem with the people taking care of the place. They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes.”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: Assholes, Unreliable
“We've got canned fruits and vegetables, canned fish and meats, hot and cold syrups, Post Toasties, Corn Flakes, Sugar Puffs, Rice Krispies, Oatmeal... and Cream of Wheat. You got... [then, telepathically to Danny] How'd you like some ice cream, Doc?...a dozen jugs of black molasses, we got sixty boxes of dried milk, thirty twelve-pound bags of sugar... Now we got dried peaches, dried apricots, dried raisins and dried prunes. You know Mrs. Torrance, you got to keep regular, if you want to be happy!”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: ice cream, Fruits, vegetables, corn flakes, cereal, sugar puffs, rice krispies
“Some places are like people: some shine and some don't.”
— Dick Hallorann, The Shining
Tagged: Places, People, Shine
“[smashing the door to bits with an axe] Wendy, I'm home.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: scary, axe
“White Man's Burden, Lloyd, my man! White Man's Burden.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: white man's burden, rudyard kipling
“Come out, come out, whereever you are.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Threat
“Jack Torrance: [laughs] Well, it's certainly got plenty of that.

Stuart Ullman: ...The winters can be fantastically cruel. And the basic idea is to cope with the very costly damage and depreciation which can occur. And this consists mainly of running the boiler, heating different parts of the hotel on a daily, rotating basis, repair damage as it occurs, and doing repairs so that the elements can't get a foothold.

Jack Torrance: Well, that sounds fine to me.

Stuart Ullman: Physically, it's not a very demanding job. The only thing that can get a bit trying up here during the winter is, uh, a tremendous sense of isolation.

Jack Torrance: Well, that just happens to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'm outlining a new writing project and, uh, five months of peace is just what I want.

Stuart Ullman: That's very good Jack, because, uh, for some people, solitude and isolation can, of itself become a problem.

Jack Torrance: Not for me.

Stuart Ullman: How about your wife and son? How do you think they'll take to it?

Jack Torrance: They'll love it.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: wrinters, cruel, Isolation
“Lloyd: What will you be drinking, sir?

Jack Torrance: Hair of the dog that bit me, Lloyd.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drinking, hair of the dog
“Wendy, listen. Let me out of here and I'll forget the whole damn thing! It'll be just like nothing ever happened. Wendy, baby, I think you hurt my head real bad. I'm dizzy, I need a doctor. Honey, don't leave me here.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: dizzy, pleading, Begging
“[staring at the drink in his hand] Here's to five miserable months on the wagon, and all the irreparable harm it has caused me.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Alcoholism, on the wagon
“[about Wendy]
Delbert Grady: I feel you will have to deal with this matter in the harshest possible way, Mr. Torrance.

Jack Torrance: There's nothing I look forward to with greater pleasure, Mr. Grady.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Pleasure, punishment
“Jack Torrance: Well, that is quite a story.

Stuart Ullman: Yeah it is. It's still hard for me to believe it happened here. It did, and I think you can appreciate why I wanted to tell you about it.

Jack Torrance: I certainly can and I also understand why your people in Denver left it for you to tell me.

Stuart Ullman: Well obviously some people can be put off by staying alone in a place where something like that actually happened.

Jack Torrance: Well you can rest assured, Mr. Ullman, that's not going to happen with me.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Story, unbelievable
“I like you, Lloyd. I always liked you. You were always the best of them. Best goddamned bartender from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine. Or Portland, Oregon, for that matter.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Portland, Maine, Portland, Oregon, Tikmbuktu, Goddamned, Bartender
“Jack Torrance: The most terrible nightmare I ever had. It's the most horrible dream I ever had.

Wendy Torrance: It's OK, it's OK now. Really.

Jack Torrance: I dreamed that I, that I killed you and Danny. But I didn't just kill ya. I cut you up in little pieces. Oh my God. I must be losing my mind.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Nightmare, Murder
“God, I'd give anything for a drink. I'd give my goddamned soul for just a glass of beer.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Drink, Soul, Beer, Goddamned
“Wendy Torrance: Hey. Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound?

Jack Torrance: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.

Wendy Torrance: Oh.

Danny Torrance: What was the Donner Party?

Jack Torrance: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Danny Torrance: You mean they ate each other up?

Jack Torrance: They had to, in order to survive.

Wendy Torrance: Jack...

Danny Torrance: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.

Jack Torrance: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: donner party, Sierras, Mountains, Cannibalism
“Jack Torrance: Mr. Grady, you were the caretaker here. I recognize ya. I saw your picture in the newspapers. You, uh, chopped your wife and daughters up into little bits. And then you blew your brains out.

Delbert Grady: That's strange, sir. I don't have any recollection of that at all.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: caretaker, Murder, Amnesia
“Danny Torrance: Dad?

Jack Torrance: Yes?

Danny Torrance: Do you like this hotel?

Jack Torrance: Yes, I do. I love it. Don't you?

Danny Torrance: I guess so.

Jack Torrance: Good. I want you to like it here. I wish we could stay here forever... and ever... and ever.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: hotel, Forever
“Little pigs, little pigs, let me come in. Not by the hair of your chiny-chin-chin? Well then I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in. [axes the door]”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: pigs, huff and puff, three little pigs
“Have you ever had a single moment's thought about my responsibilities? Have you ever thought, for a single solitary moment about my responsibilities to my employers? Has it ever occurred to you that I have agreed to look after the Overlook Hotel until May the first. Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and 'trust' in me, and that I have signed a letter of agreement, a 'contract,' in which I have accepted that responsibility? Do you have the slightest idea what a 'moral and ethical principal' is? Do you? Has it ever occurred to you what would happen to my future, if I were to fail to live up to my responsibilities? Has it ever occurred to you? Has it?”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Responsibilities, Trust, Future
“Delbert Grady: Did you know, Mr. Torrance, that your son is attempting to bring an outside party into this situation? Did you know that?

Jack Torrance: No.

Delbert Grady: He is, Mr. Torrance.

Jack Torrance: Who?

Delbert Grady: A nigger.

Jack Torrance: A nigger?

Delbert Grady: A nigger cook.

Jack Torrance: How?

Delbert Grady: Your son has a very great talent. I don't think you are aware how great it is. That he is attempting to use that very talent against your will.

Jack Torrance: He is a very willful boy.

Delbert Grady: Indeed he is, Mr. Torrance. A very willful boy. A rather naughty boy, if I may be so bold, sir.

Jack Torrance: It's his mother. She, uh, interferes.

Delbert Grady: Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don't mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches, and tried to burn it down. But I 'corrected' them sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I 'corrected' her.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: outside party, nigger, n-word, racism
“Jack Torrance: Wendy, let me explain something to you. Whenever you come in here and interrupt me, you're breaking my concentration. You're distracting me. And it will then take me time to get back to where I was. You understand?

Wendy Torrance: Yeah.

Jack Torrance: Now, we're going to make a new rule. When you come in here and you hear me typing [types] or whether you don't hear me typing, or whatever the fuck you hear me doing; when I'm in here, it means that I am working, that means don't come in. Now, do you think you can handle that?

Wendy Torrance: Yeah.

Jack Torrance: Good. Now why don't you start right now and get the fuck out of here? Hm?”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: typing, Work, interruptions, Fuck
“Lloyd: Women: can't live with them, can't live without them.

Jack Torrance: Words of wisdom, Lloyd my man. Words of wisdom.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Women, Words of Wisdom
“Wendy Torrance: [crying] Stay away from me.

Jack Torrance: Why?

Wendy Torrance: I just wanna go back to my room!

Jack Torrance: Why?

Wendy Torrance: Well, I'm very confused, and I just need time to think things over!

Jack Torrance: You've had your whole fucking life to think things over, what good's a few minutes more gonna do you now?

Wendy Torrance: Please! Don't hurt me!

Jack Torrance: I'm not gonna hurt you.

Wendy Torrance: Stay away from me!

Jack Torrance: Wendy? Darling? Ligh, of my life. I'm not gonna hurt ya. You didn't let me finish my sentence. I said, I'm not gonna hurt ya. I'm just going to bash your brains in! [Wendy gasps] Gonna bash 'em right the fuck in!

Wendy Torrance: Stay away from me! Don't hurt me!

Jack Torrance: [sarcastically] I'm not gonna hurt ya...

Wendy Torrance: Stay away! Stop it!

Jack Torrance: Stop swingin' the bat. Put the bat down, Wendy. Wendy? Give me the bat...”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Death Threats, Domestic Violence
“All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: all work and no play
“Here's Johnny!”
— Jack Torrance, The Shining
Tagged: Johnny Carson
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: Horror, Why things scare us
“That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.”
— Stephen King, The Shining,
Tagged: How to be good at sex, For when things seem hard
“Any big hotels have got scandals. Just like every big hotel has got a ghost. Why? Hell, people come and go.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: creepy, hotels, Ghosts, haunting, Haunted
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
— Stephen King, The Shining
Tagged: creepy, monsters, Ghosts, Supernatural, Evil, spooky
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