Max Brooks
We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.Collection: War
Use your head; cut off theirs.Collection: Halloween
[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.Collection: Hurt
There comes a point when you have to realize that the sum of all your blood, sweat, and tears will ultimately amount to zero.Collection: Zero
I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.Collection: Men
They didn't break me. I broke myself.Collection: Broke
Zombies will try to scale any surface no matter how unfeasable or even impossible. In all but the easiest situations, these attempts have met with failure. Even in the case of ladders, when simple hand-over-hand coordination is required, only one in four zombies will succeed.Collection: Simple
The highest distinction is service to others.Collection: Service To Others
If you believe you can accomplish everything by "cramming" at the eleventh hour, by all means, don't lift a finger now. But you may think twice about beginning to build your ark once it has already started rainingCollection: Rain
America is especially sensitive to war weariness, and nothing brings backlash like the perception of defeat. I say “perception” because America is a very all-or-nothing society… We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn’t uncontested, it was positively devastating.Collection: War
...because I'm sure that as soon as things really get back to "normal," once our kids or grandkids grow up in a peaceful and comfortable world, they'll probably go right back to being as selfish and narrow-minded and generally shitty to one another as we were.Collection: Growing Up
Americans worship technology. It's an inherent trait in the national zeitgeist.Collection: Technology
A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles.Collection: Class
Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.Collection: Emotion
But no matter what happens to the surviving humans, there will always be the walking dead.Collection: Walking Dead
Fear is the most valuable commodity in the universe.Collection: World War Z
Whatever bro, tell it to the whalesCollection: Whales
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.”-World War ZCollection: War
Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water. Don't bring water with you because it'll tire you out and you'll lose too much fluid. Bring a water pump.Collection: Feet
Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.Collection: Generations
The dead walk among us.Collection: Zombie
During the Qin Dynasty, all books not relating to practical concerns such as agriculture or construction were ordered burned by the emperor to guard against "dangerous thought." Whether accounts of zombie attacks perished in the flames will never be known. This obscure section of a medical manuscript, preserved in the wall of an executed Chinese scholar, might be proof of such attacks.Collection: Wall
Zombies don't run. They don't dance. They don't say, "More brains." There is no Thriller Night. Those are stereotypes that are perpetrated by Hollywood, which I think is very irresponsible because it can get you killed.Collection: Running
Organize before they rise!Collection: Organize
If your Soviet neighbor is trying to set fire to your house, you can't be worrying about the Arab down the block. If suddenly it's the Arab in your backyard , you can't be worrying about the People's Republic of China and if one day the ChiComs show up at your front door with an eviction notice in one hand and a Molotov cocktail in the other, then the last thing you're going do is look over his shoulder for a walking corpse.Collection: Block
When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...Collection: Book
Gu was a worrier, a neurotic curmudgeon. If he had a headache, it was a brain tumor; if it looked like rain, this year's harvest was ruined. This was his way of controlling the situation, his lifelong strategy for always coming out ahead. Now, when reality looked more dire than any of his fatalisitic predictions, he had no choice but to turn tail and charge in the opposite direction.Collection: Rain
. . . show the other side, the one that gets people out of bed the next morning, makes them scratch and scrape and fight for their lives because someone is telling them that they're going to be okay.Collection: Morning
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.Collection: Kids
The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.Collection: Ghouls
After all we'd been through, we still couldn't take our heads from out of our asses or our hands from around each other's throats.Collection: Hands
With so much protection, wouldn't one be able to wander among the undead ranks, taunting them at will with no danger of repercussion?Collection: Zombie
They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.Collection: Hate
But there were alternative media outlets. Oh sure, and you know who listens to them? Pansy, overeducated know-it-alls, and you know who listens to them? Nobody! Who's going to care about some PBS-NPR fringe minority that's out of touch with the mainstream? The more those elitist eggheads shouted "The Dead Are Walking," the more most real Americans tuned them out.Collection: Real
They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when the skies darkened and the nation called, both reawoke to the meaning of their existence. One shielded our bodies, the other, our souls.Collection: Real
Looking for love on the internet is like Janet Leigh asking Norman Bates if he likes her body.Collection: Looking For Love
1. Organize before they rise! 2. They feel no fear, why should you? 3. Use your head: cut off theirs. 4. Blades don't need reloading. 5. Ideal protection = tight clothes, short hair. 6. Get up the staircase, then destroy it. 7. Get out of the car, get onto the bike. 8. Keep moving, keep low, keep quiet, keep alert! 9. No place is safe, only safer. 10. The zombie may be gone, but the threat lives on.Collection: Moving
I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.Collection: Teacher
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.Collection: Jobs
I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of their world, they need a safe vessel for all their fears. Zombies provide that vessel because they're 'safe.Collection: Thinking