ZOMBIE QUOTES V

quotations about zombies

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The pinnacle of zombie cool came when the game Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ for those in the know) began taking over college campuses. I still don't understand the rules, but it involves Nerf guns and throwing rolled up socks at your friends. So I'm in.

TEAMEPICREADS

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Zombies are real! The Haitian government knows it so well that article 249 of the penal code prohibits anyone from turning others into zombies; it is considered premeditated murder and punishable by law.

FRANTZ MICHEL

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A zombie film is not fun without a bunch of stupid people running around and observing how they fail to handle the situation.

GEORGE A. ROMERO

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I know as a woman I'm supposed to have this innate love of babies, but the truth is, they kind of remind me of zombies. They stumble around, arms out, moaning. And if they get a hold of you, they suck the energy out of you.

CINDI MADSEN

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In their paper "When Zombies Attack: Mathematical Modeling of an Outbreak of Zombie Infection," a University of Ottawa research team concluded that a large-scale zombie outbreak would lead to societal collapse unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. The New York Times included the work among its top ideas of 2009.

MATT MOGK

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Everything's better with zombies -- NOT.

LILY HERNE

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Zombies are what the anthropologist Victor Turner calls 'threshold people', those anomalies that straddle crucial cultural boundaries, 'necessarily ambiguous, since this condition and these persons elude or slip through the network of classifications that normally locate states and positions in cultural space.' The most obvious boundary breach of the zombie is between the seemingly definitive states of life and death. Nearly every culture on the planet elaborates stories about the undead as a means of negotiating the perilous biological, cultural and symbolic passage between these two states. Like the North African ghoul or the Eastern European vampyre, zombies are also marginal folkloric creatures, clinging on in the uncertain zone between ancient belief and modern knowledge systems, who prey on those loved ones who hang around cemeteries too long.

ROGER LOCKHURST

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What Hamlet suffers from is a lack of zombies. Let us say Rosencrantz and Guildenstern show up--Ho-HO! Now you've got something that stirs the, um, something that stirs things that are stirrable. BOOM! A pack of ravenous flesh-eaters breaks open their heads and sucks out their eyeballs. No need for iambic pentameter because they are grunting, groaning annihilators of humanity with no time for meter. You're not asleep in the back of English class anymore, are you? This is what I'm talking about. Zombies.

LIBBA BRAY

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Some of these highest-functioning zombies are even lucky enough to remember a word or two of human speech. (Usually these will be simple words and phrases like "hello," "yes," "no," and "I am, in fact, a neurosurgeon. Now please let me closer to that succulent frontal lobe.") These zombies are the millionaires, the professional athletes, the rock stars of the zombie world. But as long as they remain appropriately humble, we have little reason to begrudge them their success.

SCOTT KENEMORE

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A zombie crawls through the forest. When it reaches a good spot, it freezes in place. A stalk slowly grows from its head. The stalk then spews out spores that spread, turning others into zombies. This is no Halloween story about the zombie apocalypse. It's all true. The zombie isn't a human, though. It's an ant. And the stalk that emerges from its head is a fungus. Its spores infect other ants, which lets the zombie cycle begin anew.

KATHRYN HULICK

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If the vampire is a serial killer who stalks his victims one by one, the zombie, on the other hand, belongs to the world of mass shootings.... The zombie horde is a killing mass, but in the lone gunman dispatching scores of hapless victims in a single session we find a model of the apocalyptic survivor whose capacity for massive violence is transformed within that fantasy into a virtue.

ROBERT DAVID STACEY

Tags: vampire quotes

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When you're dead, everything in the world is like a song that makes you cry.

ADAM SELZER

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The average undergraduate knows a lot more about zombies than about world politics.

DANIEL W. DREZNER

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There's no slavering horde of zombies. No actinic flash of thermonuclear war. No Earth-shuddering asteroid. The end comes in unforeseen ways; the stock market collapses, and then the banks, and then there is no food in the supermarkets, or the communications system goes down completely and inevitably, and previously amiable co-workers find themselves wrestling over the last remaining cookie that someone brought in before all the madness began.

MARK A. RAYNER

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Zombies are the most widely understood metaphor of our time.

KIM MCLENDON

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The zombies are a convenient plot point to get us to the real meaning of the show: that the living are way more dangerous than the dead.

NADA STAFF

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There's no fly-fishing movie in the works, but I've got an idea. Zombies are real popular. How about, "A River Runs Through Zombieland?"

CATCH CORMIER

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The flesh-eating ghouls of were an obvious symptom of social disorder. Romero himself was always anxious to play down their allegorical significance, but that didn't stop critics from trying to pin something on them. The packs of zombies--shambling, entranced, menacing--were variously interpreted as Nixon's "silent majority" risen from their condos or as the returning waves of corpses from Vietnam.

STEVE BEARD

Tags: Vietnam War

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Zombies are ... a contagion, driven by an empty but insatiable hunger to devour the last of the living and extend their domain until we reach the End of Days. Zombies are the Rapture with rot.

ROGER LOCKHURST

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I half expect a zombie to show up on Sesame Street and hang out with the Count.

GEORGE A. ROMERO

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