Mark Waid Quotes

I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

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• It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I just want to help make other people happy, too.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Want
  • Problem
  • Complexity

• Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Music
  • Me
  • Just

• Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Science
  • Faith
  • Blind

• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Always
  • Picture
  • Start

• We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Country
  • Power
  • Energy

• Though ambition itself be a vice, yet it is often times the cause of virtues.

  

  Quintilian
  • Ambition
  • Times
  • Often

• How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Live
  • Desert
  • Within

• Film is my hobby, so I will work well through the night to develop films, whatever film I'm doing or dream projects I have.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Night

• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Up
  • Think
  • Know

• I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thought

• Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Waiting

• In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Good
  • Way
  • Screen

• You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Mind
  • You
  • Repetition

• There are many women with children under five who want to work and who lack affordable, high-quality child care.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Work
  • Women
  • Children

• To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Depressing

• To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Movie
  • Mean
  • Moment

• There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
  • Present
  • Childhood

• I am not in any way opposed to medieval studies (or for that matter Latin).

  

  Charles Clarke
  • Way
  • Study
  • Matter

• We burden ourselves with useless ideas which we carelessly take as facts. Instead of letting reality come as a new surprise, we insist that it conform to our habitual concepts, and thus, we spoil everything.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Reality

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• I was a truant. And if you're a truant in New York City, the truant officer gets after you, and then you get into the courts, and then things happen which they really shouldn't. But I ended up in a very sweet reform school. It's the place you go to if you've got a really kind judge.

  

  David Carradine
  • Up
  • School
  • City

• Lissa lowered her voice and added, "I might not even go to school anyway. I might defer and join the Peace Corps and go to Africa and shave my head and dig latrines." "Shave your head?" I said, because, really, this was the most ludicrous part of the whole thing. "You? Do you have any idea how ugly most people's bare heads are? They've got all kinds of bumps, Lissa. And you won't know until it's too late and you're flat-out bald.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • People
  • School
  • Kind

• I'm not a big fan of the George Lucas school of meddling and tinkering. That's a slippery slope.

  

  Mark Waid
  • School