Frasi di Max Brooks (46 frasi, pagina 2) | Citazioni e frasi celebri

Max Brooks: 46 frasi 0 Mi piace

Max Brooks frasi celebri

“La guerra ci ha riportati alle nostre radici, ci ha fatto ricordare che cosa significa essere russi. Siamo di nuovo forti, di nuovo temuti, e per un russo questo significa una sola cosa: finalmente siamo di nuovo al sicuro!”

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

Maria Zhuganova, p. 297
World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

“Mi ricordo che stavo accanto a questo tizio, Sergei, un miserabile, enorme figlio di puttana con la faccia triste. Le sue storie su come era cresciuto in Russia mi avevano convinto che non tutte le cloache del Terzo Mondo dovevano essere ai tropici.”

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

T. Sean Collins, p. 87
World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

“Gli americani hanno un rapporto particolare con le pistole. Sembrano apparire in ogni film, ogni programma televisivo, ogni romanzo, ogni fumetto. Gli eroi americani le hanno sempre portate, dallo sceriffo del vecchio West all’intrepido poliziotto di città. I criminali ci vanno a nozze; liberali e conservatori ne discutono continuamente. I genitori ne tengono lontani i figli e gli industriali ci fanno immense fortune. La pistola è sinonimo di America forse ancor più dell’automobile. Ma questa icona culturale quanto è utile di fronte a una folla di carnivori appena tornati dal mondo dei morti? A dire il vero non molto.”

Max Brooks libro Manuale per sopravvivere agli zombi

Origine: Manuale per sopravvivere agli zombi, p. 39

“Gli umani che credono di aver seminato i propri inseguitori non-morti farebbero bene a ricordare la storia della lepre e della tartaruga, con la differenza che in questo caso la lepre ha buone possibilità di essere divorata viva.”

Max Brooks libro Manuale per sopravvivere agli zombi

Origine: Manuale per sopravvivere agli zombi, p. 17

“Sarebbe impreciso affermare che gli zombi non hanno cuore. Non è invece impreciso affermare che in pratica non se ne fanno niente. Il sistema circolatorio dei non-morti non è che una rete di inutili tubicini pieni di sangue congelato.”

Max Brooks libro Manuale per sopravvivere agli zombi

Origine: Manuale per sopravvivere agli zombi, p. 16

Max Brooks: Frasi in inglese

“Well alright, anyone who has dreams of world empire, look what it did to Britain (chuckles heartily). There's a reason that whole country is one big Smith song. That's actually one exciting thing about studying history, there did come a point towards the end of the 19th century where the British were just like, "this ain't worth it mate". There's a reason why in 1945 they gave us the keys to the world. They were like, "here, it's yours, take it, go, we're fine, no? India, go. Africa, go." Because they'd had enough. Because it's really hard, we can't even run ourselves. We literally have people storming our capital with signs saying, "government, keep your hands off my social security". If we can't handle that, do we really want to try and run, Africa? I think what we need is not so much world empire, I think we need closer cooperation, closer alliances.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks

Lecture of Opportunity | Max Brooks: World War Z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGG5E04cog

“They teach you how to resist the enemy, how to protect your mind and spirit. They don’t teach you how to resist your own people, especially people who think they’re trying to “help” you see “the truth.””

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

World War Z

“There's a little pond, in a small town in Poland, where they used to dump the ashes. The pond is still gray, even half a century later. I've heard it said that the holocaust had no survivors, that even those who managed to remain technically alive were so irreparably damaged, that their spirit, their soul, the person that they were supposed to be, was gone forever. I'd like to think that's not true. But if it is, then no one on Earth survived this war.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

World War Z

“If there's four Vietcong in a village with knives and punji sticks, we'll bring in a B-52. And I think, sometimes we need to learn to fight smarter instead of to fight richer. And this is what I mean, you know, education, "oh, education's expensive;" no it's not, books are cheap, (the) internet's cheap, we can fight smarter, we can learn. So, that's where resource-to-kill-ratio comes from.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks

Lecture of Opportunity | Max Brooks: World War Z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGG5E04cog

“The Allies had the resources, industry, and logistics of an entire planet. The Axis, on the other hand, had to depend on what scant assets they could scrape up within their borders. This time we were the Axis.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

World War Z

“As soon as the report came in, [General Lang] sat down at his desk, signed a few final orders, addressed and sealed a letter to his family, then put a bullet through his brain. Bastard. I hate him now even more than I did on the way to Hamburg… he knew this was just the first step of a long war and we were going to need men like him to win it… That's why he deserted us like we deserted those civilians. He saw the road ahead, a steep, treacherous mountain road. We'd all have to hike that road, each of us dragging the boulder of what he'd done behind us. [Lang] couldn't do that. He couldn't shoulder the weight.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

World War Z

“People say, "get us out of the UN, we don't need the UN", we invented the UN. This is us, we are the ones who founded the idea of nations working together, and I think that's something we need to do. And it's, it's messy, and it's really complicated, and there's going to be a lot of countries out there that expect us to clean up there mess, or just want to see us fall on (our) face. And they love that, which is what I think president Obama said brilliantly at the UN, when he basically said, "that ok". If I'm paraphrasing, I don't think he's ever said "ok" in his life, he's probably said "well". But basically he said, "look, for the last eight years you've been on our case about going it alone, you know, we're imperialists, we're hegemonic, we're going it alone, we're going it alone… Ok, we're not going it alone anymore, we're going to listen to you, but you better ante up and kick in. Because, you don't have the right to have an opinion, if you can't back it up. It's put up or shut up time". And I was so happy when he said that, and the way he handled the Latin (American) countries, when he was dealing with the crisis in Central America, the coups in Honduras. And he said, "the very same countries who accuse us of doing nothing, are also the same ones who accuse us of being imperialistic. You can't have it both ways."”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks

Lecture of Opportunity | Max Brooks: World War Z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGG5E04cog

“No one would have expected [the escalation of nuclear hostilities], but then again, no one would have expected the dead to rise, now would they? Only one could have foreseen this, and I don’t believe in him anymore.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

World War Z

“Do you know how many times, when I was a kid, going to Europe, having a Frenchman try to get on my case about Vietnam. And that wasn't the problem, do you know what it was like to have other kids, other American students go, "yeah, it's pretty bad, in Vietnam, we should, yeah". And I'd be like, 'but, mhmm, French Indochina.', and they'd be like, "Oh is that near Vietnam" (groans). We don't educate our young people, and then we send them out into the world, as ambassadors as lameness. So no, no world empire, I don't want to be responsible for the plumbing in Rwanda, but we do need to become as much of a student of them as they are of us. Because, here's the thing. Well, the problem with the global village, remember in the early 90's, with the term now, global village, well the problem with the global village is that a lot of people are waking up realizing that they are in the global villages ghetto. And now with media, we are broadcasting these images of our wealth, and our power, our society, and the people in the global village are looking up on the hill seeing that mansion, but we're not looking down into the slum, and we need to do that. There's just so many times you can drive slowly through the ghetto in a rich convertible before you get carjacked. So this is what I mean, we need to engage…”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks

Lecture of Opportunity | Max Brooks: World War Z https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nGG5E04cog

“We relinquished our freedom that day, and we were more than happy to see it go. From that moment on we lived in true freedom, the freedom to point to someone else and say “They told me to do it! It’s their fault, not mine.” The freedom, God help us, to say “I was only following orders.””

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks libro World War Z. La guerra mondiale degli zombi

World War Z

“The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls — no matter what their label — these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.”

Help us translate this quote

Max Brooks libro Manuale per sopravvivere agli zombi

Introduction, p. xiii
The Zombie Survival Guide (2003)

Autori simili

Alessandro D'Avenia 173

scrittore, insegnante e sceneggiatore italiano

Diego De Silva 43

scrittore, giornalista e sceneggiatore italiano

Fabio Volo 212

attore, scrittore e conduttore radiofonico italiano

Daniele Luttazzi 124

attore, comico e scrittore italiano

Johnny Depp 37

attore statunitense

Tom Hiddleston 1

attore inglese

Paul Walker 2

attore

Jon Bon Jovi 2

cantante, musicista e attore statunitense

Rick Riordan 45

scrittore statunitense

Patrick Rothfuss 3

scrittore statunitense