Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

Brian K. Vaughan

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• I believe in the free enterprise system.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Believe
  • Free
  • I Believe

• I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Experience
  • Wish
  • Colleagues

• I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Comedy
  • Doing
  • Become

• One of my closest friends was a half-black, half-Jewish girl. Another good friend had a shaved head... but I was also friends with jocks. I was a 'floater,' I guess you could say.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Black

• I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Intelligent
  • Living
  • Capable

• The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Society
  • Satisfied
  • Top

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Vulnerability
  • Fascinated

• The easiest way I can describe what makes a pop song a pop song is that it's a song you want to hear over and over.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Song
  • You

• I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Chair

• Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Up
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• You go through phases. You have to reinvent reasons for playing, and one year's answer might not do for another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • You
  • Year
  • Answer

• Because I'm so tall, clothes look different on me than they do on others.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Different
  • Me
  • Look

• If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Thinking
  • May
  • Truth

• If I'd ever grown prosperous like he was, I'd not have waited for my beloved's death before I erected a Taj Mahal.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Death

• When I was 4 years old … I dreamt that I'd been eaten by a wolf, and to my great surprise I was in the wolf's stomach and not in heaven.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Great
  • Heaven
  • Wolf

• In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • True
  • Science

• But there will be no justice, there will be no government of the people, by the people, and for the people, as long as the government and its officials permit bribery in any form.

  

  John Jay Hooker
  • People
  • Long
  • Justice

• Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Culture

• Not all the pride of beauty; Those eyes, that tell us what the sun is made of; Those lips, whose touch is to be bought with life; Those hills of driven snow, which seen are felt: All these possessed are nought, but as they are The proof, the substance of an inward passion, And the rich plunder of a taken heart.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Beauty

• In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan