Dave Sim Quotes

Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.

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• Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Long
  • Business
  • Career

• It's nice that there are movies and songs about romance - it's what motivates us as human beings. I'm all for being brainwashed by rom-coms.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Nice
  • Movies
  • Being

• We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Fate
  • Become
  • Prophets

• I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Pleasure

• The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • Architecture
  • Possible
  • Late

• Jim Bakker. He's lost everything, he's ruined. And the worst thing of all he still has to wake up to her!

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Worst

• 'But what am I to do?' cried the Prince.'What you feel you must,' said the Theel. 'That’s the only thing to do at any time.'

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Time
  • Prince

• What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Red
  • Wine

• Animals that are killed for their flesh lead miserable lives. They are kept in disgusting conditions. The simplest little thing you can do not to hurt animals is just not eat them. I'm bringing my four children up vegetarian, and I know absolutely that I'm giving them the very best start in life.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I started Linux as a desktop operating system. And it's the only area where Linux hasn't completely taken over. That just annoys the hell out of me.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Taken

• A lot happened in Vancouver. It was my first Western experience. I learned English, which is my second language. I became very acquainted with Western culture. I had my first sewing machine when I was 9. I trained in fashion illustration when I was in school.

  

  Jason Wu
  • School
  • Experience
  • Culture

• John Baldessari, the 79-year-old conceptualist, has spent more than four decades making laconic, ironic conceptual art-about-art, both good and bad.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• Many weight issues stem from illness, be it physical or, indeed, emotional. And a large portion of people who sometimes struggle to maintain a 'healthy' weight deal daily with their own self-esteem crises.

  

  Jameela Jamil
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Emotional

• For whatever reason I tend to get roles that are more damaged.

  

  Kathleen Robertson

• When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Respect
  • Consistency

• Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man, youth never.

  

  Anna Jameson
  • Childhood

• Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

  

  Donal Logue
  • Dream

• I don't intend to stop making music.

  

  Frank Ocean
  • Music
  • Stop

• The cornerstone of our Tech 5 development platform is this uniquely textured map or world, where every surface doesn't have a repeating texture on it. It can all be stamped and modified due to the work done on it. The core technical question to be resolved on this was how do we get that media set to be playable on the iPhone.

  

  John Carmack
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

  

  James Rebhorn
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Once you have six children, you're committed.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Committed
  • Six

• And yet when you take Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, whatever, their combined killings in the name of religion -- well, that would be zero.

  

  Eric Bolling
  • Religion
  • Christianity
  • Killing

• The Free Body Culture gave me a gift I might never have received had I refused to play along. It left me with an acute sense of the absurd - one I still cherish - to be there among my fellow apes, awkward and less than half-willing, aiming and missing, leaping, landing and wincing.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Missing

• Leftists always want to... circle around subjects... rather than addressing any subject directly.

  

  Dave Sim