The Dead Zone Quotes

“Some things were better lost than found.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“We all do what we can, and it has to be good enough, and if it isn't good enough, it has to do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“She suddenly realized she was sitting in an apartment by herself late at night, eating an apple and watching a movie on TV that she cared nothing about, and doing it all because it was easier than thinking, thinking was so boring really, when all you had to think about was yourself and your lost love.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“PRECOGNITION, TELEPATHY, BULLSHIT! EAT MY DONG, YOU EXTRASENSORY TURKEY!”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Sometimes you just have to do what you can and try to live with it.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“I’m a man of the world, and all that means is I understand what powers the world. The fuel mix is one part high-octane to nine parts pure bullshit.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“The crowd had the plump, righteous, slightly constipated look that seems the exclusive province of businessmen who belong to the GOP.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“What would his father do then? Go on, Johnny supposed. People had a way of doing that, just going on, pushing through with no particular drama, no big drumrolls.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“The Question was this: If you could jump into a time machine and go back to 1932, would you kill Hitler?”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“But the people didn’t elect buffoons to Washington. Well—hardly ever.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“I'm going out for a bottle of champagne. We're going to get bombed.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Земята се върти, това е всичко. Можеш да се въртиш заедно с нея или пък да спреш, за да протестираш, в резултат на което да бъдеш изхвърлен от движението й.”
― st, The Dead Zone

“You ought to sue that son of a whore”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“95% of the people who walk the earth are inert, Johnny. 1% are saints, and 1% are assholes. The other 3% do what they say they can do.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“The man who senses the wind of change should build not a windbreak but a windmill.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“El dinero compra muchas cosas, pero no puede parar el rayo.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“And if he can’t be politically killed?” Ngo smiled at Johnny. He unfolded his index finger, cocked his thumb, and then snapped it down. “Bam,” he said softly. “Bam, bam, bam.” “No,” Johnny said, surprised at the hoarseness in his own voice “That’s never an answer. Never.” “No? I thought it was an answer you Americans used quite often.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“The first slow, scalding tears began to come. “Oh Johnny,” she said. “Everything was supposed to be different, wasn’t it? It wasn’t supposed to end like this.”
She lowered her head, her throat working painfully - and to no effect. The sobs came anyway, and the bright sunlight broke into prisms of light. The wind, which had seemed so warm and Indian summery, now seemed as chill as February on her wet cheeks.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“A charming eccentric, a piece of blank paper on which the electorate could write its message: You other guys are so wasted that we decided to elect this fool for two years instead.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Yes. Cumberland General. I know where it is. Just above Jerusalem’s Lot. Okay. All right. Daddy”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Go to hell,' she said merrily, 'nobody lives forever.'
'But everybody tries, you ever notice that?' he said, following her into one of the swaying gondolas.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Momma,’ he said, ‘haven’t you thought that God’s will was for some doctor to invent that drug so you could live longer?”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“He is a mechanic of the brain. He has cut it to piecese and found no soul. Therefore there is none. Like the Russian astronauts who circled the earth and did not see God. It is the empiricism of the mechanic, and a mechanic is only a child with superior motor control.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Did I grow a third eye?”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“Stillson had apparently discovered one of the great hidden muscles of principle which move the earth: if those who receive will not pay, those who have not often will, for no good reason at all.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“It’s been my experience that ninety-five percent of the people who walk the earth are simply inert, Johnny. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are the people who do what they say they can do. I’m in that three percent, and so are you. You earned that money. I’ve got people in the mills that take home eleven thousand dollars a year for doing little more than playing with their dicks. But I’m not bitching. I’m a man of the world, and all that means is I understand what powers the world. The fuel mix is one part high-octane to nine parts pure bullshit. You’re no bullshitter. So you put that money in your wallet and next time try to value yourself a little higher.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone

“When men do it in wartime, they give them medals, he thought.”
― Stephen King, The Dead Zone