Mark Waid Quotes
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
Quotes to Explore
-
To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
-
I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
-
I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
-
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
-
I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
-
There are some who complain that there is not enough food grain. But I put the argument that at the moment we use 2000 census population figures and require 50-55 million tonnes for distribution.
-
Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
-
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
-
Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
-
I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
-
Working together was a bit of a disaster. I'd tell him his ideas were cr*p and he'd say the same about mine.
-
It's brutal out on the football field.
-
When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
-
Men think a woman should not have an opinion.
-
I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
-
I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
-
What's been happening in Iraq, what young Americans wearing flak jackets, helmets and flight suits have done is... created the circumstances under which Iraq can become our closest ally in that part of the world and still have a representative government. And that's going to be a very good thing considering what's going on in that neighborhood.
-
Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
-
You'll be free or die!
-
I don't want to have to be pretty. I don't want to have to be adorable.
-
Anyone can write a detective story about a detective who fails, for Pete's sake. That's pretty unambitious.
