Favorite Quotes from The stand

[K4driver]

self explanatory.
Larry:Guess I'm not much of a writer, Alice Underwood:you can say that again Larry:guess I'm not much of a writer"
Stu:I saw Jim Morrison a few years after he died"
trashcan man"Thumpity Thump" "my life for you"

[thymeoperator]

this isn't a quote but the scene where nadine is 'taken' by flagg finally, that was so powerful and scary and surreal, i really loved that. personally 'the stand' didn't end up being one of my favourites of his (i know that's some kind of sacrilege to say!), but that one scene is one of my favourites, easily.

[Robbi]

One of my favorite most memorable is when Nick writes that he doesn't believe in God and Mother Abagail says that "It don't matter, cause he believes in you" or something similar.

[K4driver]

guess I will post another
"baby can you dig your man?"
"It is therefore required you watch this execution....Those of you with small children are excused"
"what was that line "I'll be in your dream if you'll be in mine?"
M-o-o-n that spells Tom cullum.

[michal]

There's one I really like
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." - Glen Bateman, The Stand (C&U), 3rd paragraph of Chapter 42.

There's also a nice page of Mr. King's favorite quotes (http://www.yoda.arachsys.com/sk/quotes.html) that will remind you some of the good ones. And they have quite a few from the Stand

[wally wonder]

the lord is my shepherd...i shall not want for nothing. he makes me lie down in the green pastures. he greases up my head with oil. he gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. amen....(and then a bit later)...M-O-O-N, that spells sore feet.

and

what christ should have said was 'yea, verily, whenever two or three of you are gathered together, some other guy is going to get the living sh!t knocked out him.' (there's more to it, but seems to apply. we never leave the playground)

[K4driver]

i can't wait to get the power back I am gonna play a fender electric guitar.

Sprung from cages out on Highway nine, chrome wheeled fuel injected and stepping out over the line

"we shut em up and then we shut em down. just like the boss says.you believe that happy crappy?" "sure" the trashcan man said. You dig the boss?" Sure trash said. he hadn't the slightest idea who the boss was or had been"

"if you can't afford the movies go to the zoo, if you can't afford the zoo go see a politician"

[mrbeer]

One of my favorite all time King quotes is in the stand.

"That wasn't any act of God. That was an act of pure human f*ckery."
-Larry Underwood

:rofl:

[George_Stark]

There's one I really like
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." - Glen Bateman, The Stand (C&U), 3rd paragraph of Chapter 42.

Have to agree there, not only is that my favourite quote from The Stand, its my favourite S.K quote period!

[THISisWHEREiMAKEmySTAND]

"No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of change. You just...come out the other side...Or don't. "

[Checkman]

Okay my favorite quote.

"Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. It's soooooo dark"

Got to love it.

[spilltheblood]

'And in the end, that burning was very great' from the Trashcan Man. i liked that line so much that i want to get it into a tattoo!

[LostGraveRobber]

"I'm going to see him in heaven. Tom Cullen is going to see him there, and he'll be able to talk and I'll be able to think."

This quote just really stood out to me when I was reading The Stand. Tom and Nick's friendship was one of the best part of the book for me, and this quote just made me smile when I read it.

[Ilian]

Glen Bateman(if i'm not mistaken): "Rationalism is the idea we can ever understand anything about the state of being"

[midnightlady]

M-O-O-N, that spells moon! Ratman forgives you this time.

[Nabila]

Mother Abigail : ( thinking of Randall Flagg). It's all time relevance scares me.

His goal was clear and simple: to destroy all of them.

This is one of the saddest lines I've come across in this book.

Trashcan Man was a beaten thing, used to accepting the punchings and pummelings of both fate and his own inexplicable nature... and doing so with a bowed head.

[Locnar1]

My Absolute Favorite Quote is when one of the characters(can't remember which one, I'm not a re- reader of this King novel). says something to the effect of "He thinks he's king turd of s**t mountain!"
A friend and I would lean over to each other at school and whisper this whenever someone was being too big for their britches. :laugh:

[aliciasimon]

Early in the book, one of the guys in the bar is in the hospital for the flu...(paraphrasing because I don't remember the exact text):
"Pretty sure something was in his a**. What's that for, sh*t radar???"

[Er0tic NeUr0t1c]

This first one is beautiful to me... its near the end and you should all remember it.

"And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire." Oh baby... oh yes oh go baby oh yeah OH OH CLIMAAAAAAAAAAX

and then "My life for you." [/B ]Trashy's awesome line repeated through the book.

"[B]A young man munching Fritos from a gigantic bag told Larry conversationally that he was going to fulfill a lifelong ambition. He was going to Yankee Stadium, run around the outfield naked, and then masturbate on home plate. "Chance of a lifetime man, man," he told Larry, winked with both eyes, and then wandered off, eating Fritos." FUNNY as hell.

"CIBOLLAAAAAAAAAAAAA" The look of sheer exhaustion and determination I pictured on his face as he screamed this led me to put it up here.

There are more but i can't keep thinking. Some have already been pointed out.

[AskJacq]

He coughed.

[Sarkisaur]

"Nick Andros. **** you". I really felt something for Nick as a character then.

[GNTLGNT]

"Christly woman's worse'n a jukebox with a broken record inside it."-Chris Ortega on the flight to Atlanta

[Pucker]

"You ain't no nice guy."

[Mjenn]

It's more of a moment than a quote, but it is what made me shift from enjoying reading Stephen King to another kind of admiration....

I love that the music of Dave Van Ronk survives, it is one of those moments that made me laugh out loud when I read it for the first time:

..."a startlingly good rendition of Dave Van Ronk's Backwater Blues drifted up to them" one of the characters is learning from an old record.

I grew up listening to my Dad playing DVR records and teaching me the songs, so I got a real kick out of this...

[DanMcKisic]

"She lay awake long into the night, thinking that warmth can only come from a burning--Prometheus got his eyes pecked out on that one--and that love always comes due in blood."

One of those rare occasions where you screech to a stop, because you just realized your passing a rose.

[Teddy Duchamp]

Near the end when they are in prison in Vegas.

I think its Glen Bateman trying to tell Lloyd Henreid the truth about Flagg, and urging him to shoot him.

He hesitates for ages and Flagg says sarcastically "well shoot one of us anyway"

[boogerb53]

My favorite saying is when Larry's friend was giving him a good talking too and he said, "Larry, there's something in you that's like chewing on tin foil...."

[doowopgirl]

Harold says to Fran before they leave Ogonquit 'I spent most of my life feeling like the only Cro Magnon in a herd of thundering Neanderthals

[sena]

it is exactly the same for me ..

[dharmageek]

"And the righteous and unrighteous alike were consumed in that holy fire." Oh baby... oh yes oh go baby oh yeah OH OH CLIMAAAAAAAAAAX

I totally had a Kingasm by that line too :laugh:

One paragraph near the end I thought was beautiful:

"Stu nodded, and a strange thought occurred to him-how much he would like to
sit down with Hap and Norm Bruett and Vic Palfrey and have a beer with them and
watch Vic make one of his sh*tty-smelling home-rolled cigarettes, and tell them
how all of this had come out. They had always called him Silent Stu; ole Stu,
they said, wouldn't say "sh*t" if he had a mouthful. But he would talk their
ears off their heads. He would talk all night and all day. He grasped Fran's
hand blindly, feeling the sting of tears."

Stu isn't my favorite character but that paragraph just yanked me back to the first pages of the book, it really hit home how long their journey had been and it was really going to end so soon :sleepy:

[cormac]

My favorite saying is when Larry's friend was giving him a good talking too and he said, "Larry, there's something in you that's like chewing on tin foil...."

that's one that sticks with me thru the years ... reminding myself to rise above that but thinking of that line when meeting others like that ... a perfect description of the 'early' larry i think

[K4driver]

that's one that sticks with me thru the years ... reminding myself to rise above that but thinking of that line when meeting others like that ... a perfect description of the 'early' larry i think

and according to the documentary for the making of Born To Run...that is what one of the producers in the studio would do to keep awake, since Bruce would be in the studio from 3:00 PM to 3:00AM...

[TheHardcase]

There are so many, but . . .

When Stu, Frannie, Glenn and others gather together after one of their committee meetings, Glenn is holding court. He comes up with a profound observation about the state of the world.

"At the end of all rationalism, the mass grave."

Great line.

[Sprite]

"They just gotta say screw this inflation ****. Screw this national debt ****. We got the presses and we got the paper. We're gonna run off fifty million thousand-dollar bills and hump them right the Christ into circulation." Bill Hapscomb (if only it were that easy-me)

[larasgirl]

I laughed out loud at "King sh** of turd mountain". Told my husband about it and he got a kick out of it as well.

and

Tom's prayer was too cute: "The lord is my shepherd...I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen."

[wings47]

I still get goose bumps when one of the army chiefs recites: What rough beast, it's hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born. I don't understand all the implications but the quote (from the bible or???) always chills me and sounds so dark and ominous! I think it's the word "slouches"!!
Sandy

[kellykid]

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a wimper.
- T. S. Eliot

[K4driver]

I still get goose bumps when one of the army chiefs recites: What rough beast, it's hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born. I don't understand all the implications but the quote (from the bible or???) always chills me and sounds so dark and ominous! I think it's the word "slouches"!!
Sandy

That was Yeats who said that. What I get from the quote is, In the city where great goodness was born, great evil will be born as well, since you can't have great good without great evil.

[Phantomking]

There's one I really like
"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home." - Glen Bateman, The Stand (C&U), 3rd paragraph of Chapter 42.


This. I love this quote and it really captures a lot of Glen Bateman's cynicism in the early parts of the book.

The Stand is just so epic, and yes there are some slow parts, but taken as a whole, it's incredible. It is definitely my favorite King book unless you want to count the Dark Tower as one book with 7 parts.

[frisbee]

I'm reading the Stand again for the first time since the 80's. One of my favorite quotes is actually from the tv movie. Flagg says to RF in the prison cell "Please to meet you, hope you guess my name." Then RF says something like "Classical reference....". I thought I had remembered that from the book but have just got through that part and it isn't what he said.

[TheHardcase]

The Stand is just so epic, and yes there are some slow parts, but taken as a whole, it's incredible. It is definitely my favorite King book unless you want to count the Dark Tower as one book with 7 parts.

I wholeheartedly agree. The depth of characterization and the way the story was crafted is amazing. It truly is an absolute masterpiece. As for my favorite quote. . .

Glenn Bateman: "At the end of all rationalism, the mass grave."

In fact, that entire exchange between Glenn and Frannie in the wake of Mother Abigail's disappearance was just amazing in the way it encapsulated what the Free Zone had to deal with in those early days.

The Stand is simply an incredible story, and the fact that I've returned to it six times over the past eighteen years is testament enough to this fact. I usually don't give even the most superlative fiction more than a second look. The Stand is in a class by itself.

[Olivia Dunham]

The first scene with Harold and Nadine-

"He looked at her shamefacedly, embarrassed at the hair-trigger way he had gone off. But she was only smiling at him with those calm, dark eyes that seemed to know everything, the eyes of a very young girl in a Victorian painting. A girl who knows too much, perhaps about her father."

[TheHardcase]

"He's come out the other side. That was it. No one call tell what goes on between the person you are and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just. . . come out the other side. Or you don't."

Someone knew the 12 steps very well in this book. They're all over it.

[tedb]

"they said, wouldn't say "****" if he had a mouthful. "

I use this saying quite a bit, but I'm a middle school teacher, so I modify it: "Wouldn't say beans if he had a mouthful"

"The Stand" has always been my favorite of Mr. King's. I usually re-read it each spring, and worry if a spring cold catches me. One of my favorite scenes is when the car is rolling down East 14th street in Des Moines, Iowa, past Grand View Jr. College. (it's Grand View University, now) I now these streets, I live here and travel down this busy street at least once a week. I am always reminded of this novel.

Maybe one of the reasons I so thoroughly enjoy this book is because of the references to my hometown.

ted

[kzilla689]

I like the part when the story is told through the dog (Kojak) when he travels to Nebraska and fights with every little strength he has with the dark man's wolves. I also thought the part when trashcan man finally gets away from the kid and again the dark man's wolves attack and kill him.