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.

Craig McHugh

The patent application was to protect our invention. As you can see . . . the invention is significant.

Brandee Bryant

You can be involved and not have ever thought about science or invention in your life. You can have a lot of fun.

Edgar Degas

One reproduces only that which is striking; that is to say, the necessary. Thus, one's recollections and inventions are liberated from the tyranny which nature exerts.

Eli Whitney

An invention can be so valuable as to be worthless to the inventor,

Alfred North Whitehead

The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.

Alexander Graham Bell

Washington is no place in which to carry out inventions

Adolf Hitler

Conscience is a Jewish invention.

Sydney Smith

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

Chuck Palahniuk

I'm never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn't my invention.