Bob Kane Quotes

Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

Bob Kane

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• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Mine

• A government must always be prepared for the unexpected.

  

  Palaniappan Chidambaram
  • Government
  • Unexpected

• It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• I kind of woke up one morning and was like, 'Oh I see what's happening, I get everything'. I woke up and was like, 'I get it, I'm a product.'

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Morning

• Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Change
  • Only
  • Inevitable

• There is a tendency to try to dumb everything down and turn everything into a one-paragraph press release or even less, just a slogan.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Try
  • Down
  • Dumb

• How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • World
  • Same

• When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • She
  • Lying
  • Said

• Inside me I'm Ghanaian, and I'm proud to be African. But of course I'm Italian. I was born in Italy. I've never been to Africa in my life, but I will go one day.

  

  Mario Balotelli
  • Life
  • Proud
  • Italian

• The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.

  

  Branford Marsalis
  • People
  • Listening
  • Lion

• In 2012 there was a megafoolish, if well-funded, effort by a group called Americans Elect to raise an independent Cincinnatus to run for president via an Internet draft. It flopped, spectacularly.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Effort
  • Independent

• I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

  

  Billy Bragg
  • War
  • Listening

• I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Time
  • Long
  • She

• The fact that there's people out there that care about what I'm eating for breakfast or care about a tweet that I posted in 2012 that they pulled up because they were searching on my Twitter and things like that - it's hard to understand, because it's just me, and I just think, 'What's so interesting about me?'

  

  Alessia Cara
  • People
  • Up
  • Interesting

• In the early years of Rent the Runway, our challenge was twofold: getting investors to buy into our vision for how the world was changing and getting women to understand that renting was a viable - let alone a smarter - alternative to spending hundreds of dollars on dresses they would wear just once.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • World
  • Women
  • Alone

• Real-time feedback and coaching promotes learning. When feedback is connected to compensation, feedback is muted, distorted, and given less frequently.

  

  Jennifer Hyman
  • Time
  • Real
  • Learning

• Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford

• I think hope is the belief that tomorrow can be better than today, and I don't lose hope.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • Hope
  • Today

• 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X.' I've used it to demonstrate racial attitudes to people who I thought needed a better understanding of all human beings. Malcolm was not a racist. He was not looking for revenge. He realized that kindness and goodness did not come from any one kind of person.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Kindness

• I'd really like to work with Johnny Depp: he seems like a really cool guy; he can do a lot of different things.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Work
  • Different
  • Guy

• Taking Batman globally, not everything is going to have the same flavor as Gotham City; some places are going to be a lot more bright and airy. I would say that his stories are more broad, I guess I would put it that way.

  

  David Finch
  • Way
  • Batman
  • Broad

• I have spent many a night in an Internet chat room, but not since I've been married.

  

  Jane Green
  • Night

• It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

  

  Demetri Martin
  • Life
  • Real
  • Done

• Much is written about the Batman because he is publicly exposed in print. Very little is known personally about his creator, because I haven't given out that many interviews.

  

  Bob Kane
  • Batman