Dave Sim Quotes

The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential. (p. 30)

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• I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Want
  • Know
  • Style

• To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.

  

  D. J. MacHale
  • Good
  • End
  • Mystery

• It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • People
  • Up
  • Mind

• I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

  

  Laurance Rockefeller
  • Art
  • Giving
  • Moment

• I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Mom
  • Beauty

• Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.

  

  Adam Oates
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• Though it has plenty of competitors, Slack claims to be the 'fastest growing business application in history'.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Business
  • History
  • Growing

• I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!

  

  Danai Gurira
  • Quality
  • Care
  • Loved

• I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers.

  

  Nate Powell
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Women

• The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.

  

  Zana Marjanovic
  • Me
  • Clothes
  • Sharing

• Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Like
  • Voice
  • Listen

• One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.

  

  Patricia Schroeder
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I love looking through magazines, and you know, I love getting dressed up to go to events and stuff.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Up
  • Love
  • Know

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • You
  • Best
  • Circumstances

• It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Winning
  • Losing
  • Temper

• I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Television

• 'The Rising' isn't Springsteen's masterpiece.

  

  David Means

• And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Believe
  • Heaven
  • Dog

• A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Writing
  • Door
  • Doors

• My father-in-law saw me at a dance performance. The next day, I got a phone call, and the caller said, 'I'm Dhirubhai Ambani... may I talk to Nita?' I said, 'It's a wrong number' and put down the phone. Then he called again... and I said, 'If you're Dhirubhai Ambani, then I'm Elizabeth Taylor.'

  

  Nita Ambani
  • May
  • Law
  • Numbers

• The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential. (p. 30)

  

  Dave Sim
  • Work
  • Mistake
  • Doubt