The best Quotes from The Running Man

I'm not into politics. I'm into survival.

Damon Killian: "You bastard. Drop dead!"
Ben Richards: "I don't do requests."

Killian, here's your Subzero, now plain zero.

I won't kill a helpless human being. Not even sadistic scum like you.

Amber Mendez: "They think I'm your girlfriend."
Ben Richards: "I can straighten that out. See that camera up there? I'll strangle you in front of the whole audience."

Hello, this is Killian. Give me the Justice Department, Entertainment Division.

Amber Mendez: "They were last season's winners."
Fireball Stalker: "No, last season's losers!"

If you're not ready to act, give me a break and shut up!

Uplink underground. If you say that one more time, I'll uplink your ass, and you'll be underground!

The year is 2019. The finest men in America don't run for President. They run for their lives.

This is television, that's all it is. It has nothing to do with people, it's to do with ratings! For fifty years, we've told them what to eat, what to drink, what to wear... for Christ's sake, Ben, don't you understand? Americans love television.

I fled out of the deep night - the deep night of the protected child-life , and tugged into the bright Day - the bright day of being-grownup

J.K. Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Only enemies speak the truth. Friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

It was like drowning, only from the inside out.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

But I believe in love, you know; love is a uniquely portable magic. I don’t think it’s in the stars, but I do believe that blood calls to blood and mind calls to mind and heart to heart.

A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The world has teeth and it can bite you with them any time it wants.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

'I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?' She studied him, her eyes grave. 'Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.'

Sometimes you had to know. Sometimes you had to see.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Billy Freeman: "Not many ride the bus this far north. Are you running away from something?"
Danny Torrance: "I'm running away from myself, I guess."

Now, you need to listen to me. The world is a hungry place, a dangerous place, and a dark place. I’ve only met two or three people like us. They died. When I was a kid, I bumped into these things. I don’t know about magic. I always called it the shining.

The soil of a man's heart is stonier; a man grows what he can and tends it.

Maybe she'll learn something about what death really is, which is where the pain stops and the good memories begin. Not the end of life but the end of pain.

Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

Time is a face on the water

And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live.

Sarcastic people tend to be marshmallows underneath the armor.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. 'Grownups are the real monsters', he thought.

Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are a-sholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.

Your cells age at half the rate of a normal human. When you're 40, you'll still have the leucocytes of a teenager.