Shakespeare wrote about love. I write about love. Shakespeare wrote about gang warfare, family feuds and revenge. I write about all the same things. – Sister Souljah
Most action is based on redemption and revenge, and that’s a formula. Moby Dick was formula. It’s how you get to the conclusion that makes it interesting. – Sylvester Stallone
In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead. – Uwe Boll
I don’t think, generally speaking, people become writers because they were the really good, really cool, attractive kid in class. I’ll be honest. This is our revenge for people who were much better looking and more popular than us. I was a bit like that, I suppose. – Steven Moffat
At night, I try to sneak in some of the shows that I love. I can’t live without ’30 Rock’ – I was a fan before I joined the show in 2007 – and ‘The Office.’ ‘Revenge’ is my drama. And I love Jimmy Kimmel if I can stay up late enough to watch him. – Sherri Shepherd
Of course ‘Hamlet’ is a debate about the nature and morality of revenge and whether it is right to do something to assuage your angry feelings. – Samuel West
Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology. – Steven Pinker
If revenge motivates you, go for it! But the main thing is to set your game in order. – Viswanathan Anand
As readers, we sense when the game is being played for real and when something else is afoot: pride, showmanship, the pursuit of power, self-aggrandizement, revenge, making money. Not that there’s anything wrong with any of that, but I dislike closing a book with the sense that I’ve been had. – Stacey D’Erasmo
Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to – a notion so universal, it’s enscribed in all religions. If you didn’t, they might exact revenge upon the living. – W. G. Sebald
