Jack Kirby Quotes
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
-
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
-
I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
-
In real life, I am emotionally confused, which enables me to write songs. I'm a Pisces, and they say that Pisces are very sensitive. If men were just honest with themselves, they would see that they all have that side.
-
Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
-
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
-
I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.
-
I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
-
If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
-
When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
-
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
-
Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
-
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
-
Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
-
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
-
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
-
No one wears high heels all day, every day.
-
I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.
-
Health clubs aren't healthy. In New York City, which has the most stairs of anywhere in the country, people pay money to go to a health club and use a stair master. When you live in a city, that has nothing but stairs and you pay money to use special stairs, that is not healthy behavior. It's fucking PSYCHOTIC!
-
Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.
-
You have to be better than your problems.
-
When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
-
Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
-
I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
