Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert Hernandez

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.

Gilbert Hernandez

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

Gilbert Hernandez

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters.

Gilbert Hernandez

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

Gilbert Hernandez

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

Gilbert Hernandez

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

Gilbert Hernandez

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

Gilbert Hernandez

I always felt I was living in two worlds. One was the Mexican world, because nearly everybody I knew, relatives and cousins and kids in the neighbourhood, were Mexican. Then school was a different world. It was ethnically mixed.

Conrad Hall

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

William Gibson

Science fiction was one of those places, particularly during the McCarthy era, where you could write whatever you wanted because it was beneath contempt. They didn't bother censoring it.

Paul Bowles

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

William Cowper

Toll for the brave - / The brave! that are no more: / All sunk beneath the wave, / Fast by their native shore.

Brad Brownell

We've kind of been beneath the radar all year. People haven't talked about us that much.

Paul Di Filippo

Just as our solar system has a certain idiosyncratic assortment of planets and moons, different from any neighboring system yet categorically equivalent, so each distinct period of human history might have special qualities and individuals, characteristics and events, yet still be essentially akin beneath the surface to all the others.

David Jackson

Most Americans think agricultural work is beneath them.

Xinhua Agency

Waves of the explosion pushed down the temple, and some people were buried beneath the debris.

George Williams

I was getting a piece of plastic and there was a young cottonmouth beneath it,

Billy Graham

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

Gabriela Mistral

Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.

Bee Wilson

A recipe is not an exact formula, but it does need a certain structure. When the bones are right, you can dress it in many ways.

Bonnie Bassler

I went to UC Davis because I wanted to be a vet. It's a great profession if it's right for you, but it's memorizing the bones and the muscles, and I am terrible at stuff like that. Also, there's a lot of blood and gore involved.

Brittany Snow

I was 85 lbs. at my 2000 homecoming dance. But I wanted my collarbones and hip bones to show more. I'd feel my hip bones to make sure they were out. If not, I had more weight to lose. I lost my period until I was 17. I loved that. It meant I wasn't healthy, and I didn't want to be healthy.

Christien Meindertsma

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Christien Meindertsma

In interior decorating, the pig's actually quite there. It's used in paint for the texture, but also for the glossiness. In sandpaper, bone glue is actually the glue between the sand and the paper. And then in paintbrushes, hairs are used because, apparently, they're very suitable for making paintbrushes because of their hard-wearing nature.

F. Sionil Jose

Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny, not funny as crude slapstick.

Joe Carnahan

'The A-Team' compared to making 'Narc' was a breeze. There's a whole other skill set and whole other kind of bone structure that goes into making a movie like 'Narc' versus 'The A-Team.'

Yann Martel

I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

Strobe Talbott

The path down which India and Pakistan have started to move with these tests is a dead end, and no one else should follow down that path,

Mother Jones

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Jon Zofkie

That was a hard one to lose. The kid was ranked fourth in the state and he was dead at the end. If I could have got those two points, I think I could have took him in overtime.

Michelle Fontaine

We have always wanted there to be unfettered time for individuals to file these claims. The deadline serves no purpose.

Patrick Kavanagh

There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

Mike Stofile

We'll oust them. We won't keep dead wood.

Kelly Collins

Time is running out. The deadline is approaching. So far, Delta has not come forward with meaningful negotiations.

Paul Mooney

I could drop dead tomorrow, the truth will be here. Truth is forever; when you read our history, truth is forever, and it always outs itself.

Glen Hansard

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

I try not to regret too much. I find that feeling guilty takes up so much of my time already.

Cecelia Ahern

Love was one of those feelings that you could never control.

Carrie Chapman Catt

What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being able to trace from whence it came.

Carrie Underwood

Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Arnold Schoenberg

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words.

Bill Vaughan

One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings.

Charles R. Swindoll

Lead with action and let the feelings follow.

Sheryl Krmpotich

That was huge. At one point we were up by 20 (63-43 with 2:42 to play). You know, this team has done a lot of great things this year. We've had our ups and our downs, but it's just a great feeling to be number one.

Maya Lin

You just want to translate what you see. I keep saying I am no different from a 19th-century landscape artist.

Pete Carroll

We realized what the landscape was and how this thing was setting up.

Baz Luhrmann

We have some of the most extraordinary landscape on the planet and we want to get two of the most extraordinary actors in the world and put them ... in that landscape.

David Hockney

Of course you can still paint landscape - it's not been worn out.

David Hockney

Enjoyment of the landscape is a thrill.

Brian Setzer

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music

Bridget Riley

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

Aldo Leopold

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

Dylan Moran

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

C. S. Lewis

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

C. S. Lewis

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness...

Carrie Brownstein

You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was the way out of loneliness.

Carl Rogers

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Anthony Swofford

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

Bertrand Russell

In human relations one should penetrate to the core of loneliness in each person and speak to that.

Maurice Maeterlinck

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loneliness is bred of a mind that has grown earth-bound.

Barry Lopez

Conversations are efforts toward good relations. They are an elementary form of reciprocity. They are the exercise of our love for each other. They are the enemies of our loneliness, our doubt, our anxiety, our tendencies to abdicate. To continue to be in good conversation over our enormous and terrifying problems is to be calling out to each other in the night. If we attend with imagination and devotion to our conversations, we will find what we need; and someone among us will act—it does not matter whom—and we will survive.

Orlando Bloom

Wear comfortable clothes when you fly; my preference is T-shirt and jeans.

Kevin Durkin

(Metra) would prefer to let the victim be blamed.

Frank Biondi

We have other partnerships (with Viacom), ... we prefer to be the buyer.

Larry Ellison

You'll see it in the newspapers. Oracle's strong preference is to do everything hostilely.

Joe Flanigan

It doesn't bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously.

Brian Cook

We'd prefer to have a seven-day break, but there's not much you can do about it.

Jack Roney

We'd prefer this is not in place at all.

Charles Tillman

You always prefer to be in on more plays,

Josh Beekman

We don't get preferred housing, I wish that we did.

Laura Puchowicz

We wanted to make the motel better, but renovating the old structure would just have been a humongous problem.

Dave Foley

I like the sitcom, as a structure.

Carl Jung

Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche

Demetri Martin

They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure out what you can get out of that.

Jerry Green

We still have old time play time at recess, but we have structured play as well.

A. R. Ammons

Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.

Kathleen Blanco

If we're going to have recovery, we're going to have to have structured government. Time is of the essence,

John Hewson

It's not just the war itself. It's what you do after the war and what structure you put in place and how you make that structure work.

Kris Jenkins

They've let me know I have a support structure here and anything I need to get I can get.

Carl Sagan

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

William Shakespeare

There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you.

William Shakespeare

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

William Shakespeare

Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

Dave Mattson

If they keep this up for years they are going to completely wipe out winter tourism.

Diane Setterfield

Our lives are so important to us that we tend to think the story of them begins with our birth. First there was nothing, then I was born...Yet that is not so. Human lives are not pieces of string that can be separated out from a knot of others and laid out straight. Families are webs. Impossible to touch one part of it without setting the rest vibrating. Impossible to understand one part without having a sense of the whole. - Vida Winter

David Suzuki

Global trade has advantages. For starters, it allows those of us who live through winter to eat fresh produce year-round. And it provides economic benefits to farmers who grow that food.

Charles Dickens

Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.

Charles Caleb Colton

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.