19 quotes
Sometimes ah think that people become junkies just because they subconsiously crave a wee bit ay silence.
Trainspotting (1993)
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.
Trainspotting (1993)
Once you've been with each other in a primal, shagging state, it's hard to talk about the weather.
The Acid House (1994)
Funny scene, likesay, how aw the psychos seem tae ken each other, ken what ah means, likes?
Trainspotting (1993)
Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.
Trainspotting (1993)
How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?
Trainspotting (1993)
The rhetorical question, the stock-in-trade weapon ay burds and psychos.
Trainspotting (1993)
Ah jist shrugged, -- Well, as one anarchist plumber sais tae the other: smash the cistern.
The Acid House (1994)
Bad luck is usually transmitted by close proximity to habitual sufferers.
The Acid House (1994)
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.
The Acid House (1994)
You can't just have stuff that is free and escapist, you have to have stuff that is confrontational as well. You need stuff that is mystical but you need the realism too.
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know?
Trainspotting (1993)
Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.
Trainspotting (1993)
"We are all acquaintances now". It goes beyond our personal junk circumstances; a brilliant metaphor for our times.
Trainspotting (1993)
That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.
The Acid House (1994)
Ah thought that every cunt over twenty was a toss an no worth speakin tae, until ah hit twenty. The mair ah see, the mair ah think ah wis right. After that it's aw ugly compromise, aw timid surrender, progressively until death.
Trainspotting (1993)
Ah've never felt anything about countries, other than total disgust. They should fuckin abolish the lot of them. Kill every fuckin parasite politician that ever mouthed lies and fascist platitudes in a shell-suit and a smarmy smile.
Trainspotting (1993)
That beats any meat injection … that beats any fuckin cock in the world … Ali gasps, completely serious. It unnerves us tae the extent that ah feel ma ain genitals through ma troosers tae see if they're still thair.
Trainspotting (1993)
He had noted that with older people. They often try to control younger, more popular and vivacious people; usually due to the fact that they are jealous of the qualities the younger people have and they lack. These inadequacies are disguised with a benign, protective attitude.
Trainspotting (1993)