Mark Waid Quotes

By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'

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• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • World
  • Character
  • Book

• I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.

  

  Lamar Hunt
  • Why
  • Growing
  • Question

• The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the camera. There is also great sensitivity to the women whose stories are being told - never did I have a sense of the subjects being exploited.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Happy
  • Daughter
  • Yourself

• Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Family
  • Rules
  • Bitter

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Country
  • Alone

• Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Country

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Poverty
  • Program
  • Eliminate

• If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Lost
  • Failure
  • Learn

• I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Voice
  • Reach
  • Social Media

• You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Long
  • Think
  • Space

• I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Read
  • Just
  • Respond

• GMOs are linked to digestive problems, among other things. Antibiotics and growth hormone are other additives being excessively pumped into the animals we are eating, which means we're then consuming these excess antibiotics and hormones. And some processed foods actually contain toxic chemicals, often used to prevent spoilage and enhance flavor.

  

  Kristin Cavallari
  • Growth

• Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful.

  

  Earl Butz
  • May
  • Sometimes
  • Colorful

• Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now. We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.

  

  Pericles
  • May
  • True
  • Age

• Police officers and firemen are so visible in their daily work, there's no mistaking they're there - and that presence makes people feel secure.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • People
  • Work
  • Daily

• I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.

  

  Pritam Chakraborty
  • People
  • Family
  • Friends

• By coincidence and not design, 'Everstar' is written and drawn by an all-female creative team, and it makes me smile to think that there may be young female readers out there, future writers and artists, who get to see that comics doesn't have to be a 'boys' club.'

  

  Mark Waid
  • May
  • Future
  • Team