Mark Waid Quotes

Certainly, your characters - whether they are superheroes are not - should have foibles. They should have problems; they should have things that their powers can't solve. That's what makes them nuanced, interesting characters. They can have intense motivations. They should have intense motivations to do what they do.

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• My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Day
  • Public

• My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • School
  • She
  • Mother

• I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.

  

  Adam Kluger
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Son

• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• All of us are trying to achieve 100 percent in our work. That's all we struggle to do. We never do, but we never stop trying until the day we die. It's that struggle to achieve 100 percent, that's where our performance lies, that's what the audience gets. They get the struggle.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Stop

• We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Work
  • Value

• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Children
  • City
  • Closing

• Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Earth
  • Promise
  • Hell

• My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'

  

  Kamala Harris
  • May
  • Mother
  • You

• It's often been observed that the first casualty of war is the truth. But that's a lie, too, in its way. The reality is that, for most wars to begin, the truth has to have been sacrificed a long time in advance.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Truth

• The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Experience
  • Proud
  • Discipline

• A bad system will beat a good person every time.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • History
  • Name
  • Evidence

• I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Sleep
  • Fly
  • Ice Cream

• It's never black and white on 'Game of Thrones.' If you think it's black and white, you're watching it wrong.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Game
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • College
  • Thoughts
  • Anxiety

• The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Powerful
  • Personality

• 'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Bad
  • Society
  • Wealth

• A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

  

  James M. Barrie
  • Past
  • Interesting

• I prefer black and white and portrait photography. I like old, you know, interesting faces, so I think black and white brings out the contrast.

  

  Brooklyn Beckham
  • Black
  • Interesting
  • Photography

• You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Great
  • Morning

• Certainly, your characters - whether they are superheroes are not - should have foibles. They should have problems; they should have things that their powers can't solve. That's what makes them nuanced, interesting characters. They can have intense motivations. They should have intense motivations to do what they do.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Interesting