Mark Waid Quotes

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.

Mark Waid

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• I love myself. Anything that has my name I'm tickled to death.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Death
  • Name
  • Has

• In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Small
  • Best
  • Photography

• I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• I became interested in educating people in the variety of ways in which women can express their emotion. Which is much easier to do in a large role than in a supporting role to a male protagonist. In general, the women in a supporting role to a male protagonist - cry a lot.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Women
  • Emotion

• I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Man
  • Saying
  • Exploration

• Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Up
  • Want
  • Powerful

• I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

  

  Abraham A. Ribicoff
  • Time
  • Day
  • Politics

• Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

  

  Earl Monroe
  • Way
  • Leadership
  • Reminds

• I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Time
  • Great
  • Script

• I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.

  

  Harold Kushner
  • Life
  • Good
  • Book

• It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Know
  • Me
  • Kind

• A highly developed moral nature joined to an undeveloped intellectual nature, an undeveloped artistic nature, and a very limited religious nature, is of necessity repulsive. It represents a bit of human nature - a good bit, of course, but a bit only - in disproportionate, unnatural and revolting prominence.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Religious

• Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Men
  • Society

• I was always amazed when people were kind to us.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • People

• Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital, in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit.

  

  Karl Marx

• Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • May
  • Truth

• I used to play a lot of foreign women in my youth because I was prettier then. I would go for interviews, and directors would look at these sultry, exotic looks, hear this clipped accent and think the two don't go together. So they would give me a foreign accent.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Women
  • Together
  • Youth

• When I'm filming, survival requires movement. You need your energy, and you've got to eat the bad stuff, and survival food is rarely pretty, but you kind of do it. I get in that zone, and I eat the nasty stuff, but I'm not like that when I'm back home.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• I like the encouragement I get from doing new things. I like to feel scared or challenged in the hope that I can pull it off. That little bit of fear creates an energy that I can channel into the performance.

  

  Joanne Whalley
  • Hope
  • Fear
  • Energy

• In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

  

  John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Great
  • Hope
  • Faith

• The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

  

  William Griffith Wilson
  • Enemy
  • Permanent
  • Temporary

• A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.

  

  Mark Waid
  • Hope
  • Enemy
  • Superhero