Mark Waid Quotes

I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

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• We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • People
  • Calm
  • Worried

• So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Job
  • Think
  • Grateful

• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Character
  • Man
  • Persistence

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • People
  • Father
  • Wrong

• 'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• You know, I had the music baskets and the writing basket. And I had the acting. And those eggs just hatched first, and the others were slow to incubate.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Acting

• Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Lost

• I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Perfect
  • Accept
  • Strangers

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• For my life, I need to make my own choices.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Choices
  • My Life

• We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Time
  • Joy

• Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • Wall

• Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Reading

• It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Support
  • End
  • Complex

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • End
  • Fruit

• When I was five, we moved to Virginia and lived inside an old fort that was surrounded by a moat. So when I heard stories of American history, I felt as if those dramas were taking place right in my own backyard.

  

  Mary Pope Osborne
  • American
  • History

• We all have different strengths, different gifts.

  

  Eric Metaxas
  • Different

• A sane being wished for peace and serenity, not to be the mortar in which the ingredients of destiny are finely ground.

  

  David Brin
  • Peace
  • Destiny
  • Serenity

• I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

  

  Megyn Kelly
  • Time
  • Women
  • She

• I just love rolling up my sleeves and doing research, and I especially love doing research on the origins of folklore and the origins of mythology.

  

  Mark Waid
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