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.

Todd Rundgren

I used to have sort of mixed feelings about a producer whose only skills seemed to be going into the studio, schmoozing the artists and making them feel good. I can see now that in some cases, that's what you have to do because that's the only way you're going to get them to produce.

Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

Idina Menzel

My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.

Inara George

I was raised in Topanga Canyon. It's an eclectic community up in the Santa Monica mountains. A lot of musicians lived there - Joni Mitchell, Neil Young - as well as artists and craftspeople.

Glen Hansard

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Warren Farrell

I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

William Quigley

Art should be witty, like a good Eddie Murphy movie, to make your life a little easier and better.

Will Shetterly

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

There are a lot of aspects of filmmaking that I love, but one of my favorites is in post, finding the right song for the right moment.

Zadie Smith

Unless you consider yourself some sort of human brand, which I don't, you have to deal with the fact that different people are going to like different aspects of your work. It's not consistent. I am not consistent. But I feel OK with that.

Jane Marshall

The points that I do correspond to organ systems that help physically with detoxification and strengthening of the body as well as the mental aspects of will power and letting go.

Brian Wildsmith

A lot of illustrators have one central character and then they develop it, and all their books are based around it. But that was not my wish. I wanted to introduce children to the whole creative side of many aspects of life.

Jean Chenoweth

The 100 Top Hospital award winners continue to demonstrate significant distinctions in provision of value to their communities, as shown by objective differences in clinical outcomes, patient safety, efficient operations and financial stability. These top 100 hospitals react quicker to challenges than their peers, and they focus on all aspects of care, not just one.

Rodney Brooks

Hands-on experience is the best way to learn about all the interdisciplinary aspects of robotics.

Patricia Polacco

My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.

Margaret Mahy

They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.

Mike Bibby

We were good in all aspects of the game tonight. Earlier in the year, they embarrassed us at home so we felt we owed them one and wanted to come in here tonight and get us one. We weren't going to take them lightly.

Win Butler

The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me.

David Walton

Once I started working as a professional actor, it was like, 'Bye-bye waiting tables, bye-bye bartending, bye-bye all the cliched jobs actors do.' But after a year of not getting work, there's this really difficult conflict, like, 'Do I have to go back to being a waiter when people recognize me from a show?'

David Siegel

Fabric is the hot thing. It's very dynamic and, in a cliched word, very cool.

Michael Cudlitz

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

Michael Mann

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced.

Beeban Kidron

I am still cautiously hopeful about the potential of the Internet. But it seems that the greatest revolution in communication has been hijacked by commercial values.

David Friedman

I know a lot of people who have tremendous commercial success and they go directly for it. There's something that has always been difficult about that for me.

Nicole Holofcener

I don't have a drawer full of ideas. I kind of look around and take notes and wonder what could actually be a whole movie. And each time, I think I'm going to do it more commercial this time; I'm going to get a big budget and make it. But I always come up with some small idea.

Jack Foley

The American marketplace is one conditioned by commercial movies, and the American moviegoer is in the greatest part a commercial moviegoer. They don't have much patience for high end.

Randy West

Because these show are live, script pages are being switched during the program and new commercial teases might be yelled in your ear with just enough time to scribble them on scrap paper before reading them.

Rick Rubin

I never really think so much about commercial success; I usually just think about records that move me, and 'Baby Got Back' was one that moved me.

Suranga Chandratillake

Today, the way the system works, when you sign up to provide your content for the system, you sign off that your content will be downloaded and replicated. We do have a DRM, but we are keeping it for more commercial content.

Paul Di Filippo

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

Philipp Meyer

When you hold things back, when you don't commit completely to your ideas and trust completely in your own instincts, you are guaranteeing your own failure - even if you end up having commercial success.

Gillian Armstrong

Frankly, I get sick of being considered a 'young woman filmmaker' rather than an individual artist, as a man would be.

Zoe Kravitz

I'm a big fan of, like, wearing old, vintage slips and stuff as outdoor wear. I got, like, a pair of these little silk bloomers. I think they were even, like, considered underwear in the '40s. I wore them as shorts the other day.

Yoko Ono

I feel that my work is not in vain, that it does have a place in society, even though it may not be considered that it has a place in society - it doesn't matter.

Brad Berenson

The overall lesson of the two nominations taken together is that there is considerable safety in drawing from the very small pool of people who are universally considered qualified for appointment.

Bayard Taylor

The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in Colorado.

Ali Tabassi

The applications, services, and the ecosystem required also have to be considered as well as the intellectual-property rights and the royalty fees that manufacturers have to pay.

Richard Sheridan

The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency

Roger McGuinn

I've always considered myself a folk singer, even though we strapped on Rickenbacker guitars and played pretty loud.

Peter Singer

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing; so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I realise I have inadvertently become a source of inspiration and hope for people in India simply by the fact that I grew up there, went to my local university, but could go on to do well internationally.

Billy Graham

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.

Zubin Mehta

I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

Celso Senise

The political factor is what's most influencing the market. It's just a few participants who are pushing the market around.

Jeremy Solomon

The policy is very clear. We still don't have all the facts of what took place.

Willie Randolph

The overriding factor for me is if he can help our club.

Oliver Plana

The peace and order situation is the primary factor that is weighing on the market right now.

Bikram Choudhury

Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.

Clint Eastwood

I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial. I thought that was terrific, as my wife is the same racial make-up.

Zadie Smith

I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.

Zac Goldsmith

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Yoko Ono

I think it's nice to let people know that there is an invisible part of the world. I think there are many people now who are interested in the invisible world.

Christina Baker Kline

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

John C. Calhoun

Remember, it is a deep principle of our nature not to regard the safety of those who do not regard their own. If you are indifferent to your own safety, you must not be surprised if those less interested should become more so.

Rassie Erasmus

We have to win to regain momentum. Winning is all we are interested in.

Reese Witherspoon

Well I had my kids so young that I kind of feel that I'm a kid too and am growing up with them. The things they're interested in tend to really influence me.

Mary Ellen Mark

I'm a street photographer, but I'm interested in any ironic, whimsical images, and there's something very romantic about a circus.

Jeff Fisher

We have to look at lot of things. We are interested in doing it, but whether we pull it off remains to be seen.

Chuck Kolner

We have a lot of members. It's something that we normally don't talk about.

H. Munro

Will is doing really well. He is playing at No. 1 and he normally plays at No. 2.

Bat for Lashes

I like it when people make an effort to wear things that you wouldn't normally put together - I like eccentrics.

Davis Drewiske

I wore what I normally would wear at a regular game. It wasn't too bad. I thought the weather was perfect. It couldn't have been any better.

Giovanni Trapattoni

We have to stop thinking about Sweden-Denmark. I'm sure they will play normally and honestly.

Mo Johnston

He said he was sorry. End of story. I'm not worried about that. He buckled down in the second half. Normally in the past, he would be sent off.

Scott Skiles

Just to run down and double-team Shaq all over the place, it normally doesn't pay off.

Scott Johnstone

It can be as little as $1, but normally it's $500, $1,000 or $2,000.

Mike Listerman

We take 21 more shots and make the same amount. I like to think we're a little better shooting team than that, but today we weren't. We just didn't stick it in like we normally do.

John Tesh

I'm almost a vegetarian. I have a very rigid exercise routine. I'm up at 6 A.M.; I take a lot of ginseng.

Madeleine L'Engle

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

Wilhelm Reich

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin.

Gail Carriger

It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

Mark Tacchi

That was the first time, other than the medley (relay) that we've put Libby (O'Brien) on anchor. Starting her just wasn't working. When Krissy (Brown) starts, that seems to spark her. We get more out of it all the way around with Krissy starting and Libby on anchor.

R. Robinson

I think just watching (tape of) the team we're going to play there seems to be more urgency, there's more awareness, more attitude.

Robin Wright

I think just by watching him, like, 'Let's get on with it. Let's just shoot the scene, and we're done,' which seems logical.

Randy Ready

(Johnston) has been hot. Anything he touches right now seems to work out for him.

Jimmy Baron

I was very concerned, but he seems to be fine.

Jim Smith

I tell them it's the future. It seems to be where truck tires are heading.

Travis Tucker

Yeah, it seems like that. But that's the way we like it.

Mike Sherman

He seems to understand that this is a big year for him. And I think he wants to do something about that.