Brian K. Vaughan Quotes

I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!

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• I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.

  

  Damien Rice
  • People
  • Life
  • Train

• It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • True
  • Best
  • Succeed

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

  

  Daniel Drew
  • Want
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Horse
  • Books
  • Racing

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Morning

• Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.

  

  Manfred von Richthofen
  • May
  • Eyes
  • English

• 'Halo' I wrote with my grandpa in his nursing home. When I went to visit him, he'd often comment on my halo. But of course, I couldn't see. And he always - he had pictures of Jesus with these beautiful halos. And so I asked him if he'd write a song with me about Jesus' halo.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Home
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Alone
  • Karaoke

• Barack Obama was a good president, and hopefully, Donald Trump is a good president.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Trump
  • President

• I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Bad
  • Marriage
  • Feel

• You can see how dysfunctional this Congress is.

  

  Pat Toomey
  • You
  • Congress
  • How

• I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Me

• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • World
  • War
  • Period

• I'll wake up and I'll train the next day. It's been like that since I started. I think I train harder, harder than the hardest workers in the off-season.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Up

• A poet, qua poet, has only one political duty, namely, in his own writing to set an example of the correct use of his mother tongue, which is always being corrupted. When words lose their meaning, physical force takes over.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Political

• What's Buffy got? A wooden stake, some garlic. Xena has a full arsenal of weapons.

  

  Lucy Lawless

• The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.

  

  John Adams
  • Men
  • Country
  • Knowledge

• The people here in fact seem to live in the streets, which are alive from morning until night, not as they are in New York with that never-ending determination for the 'long-green', but with a pleasure-loving crowd that doesn’t care what it does or where it goes, so that it has a good time.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I try and do films I know I'm going to enjoy watching as well as being in.

  

  Dougray Scott

• The smallest changes, like I stopped eating meat and I've been doing different kinds of exercise like Yoga and stuff like that, little changes have made me feel a bit more at peace I think.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Peace

• I heard during our label-searching that some labels hire statisticians instead of A&R people. They'll reach out to the bands that will statistically perform best monetarily instead of going out to shows and having an opinion on which music is good or bad.

  

  Lucy Dacus
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• I've been so fortunate to have the opportunity to work with some incredibly talented vocalists, guitarists and producers, and I can't wait to share more originals in the future.

  

  Kygo
  • Work
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• I really like Colossus, actually, especially because only Ultimate writers get to use him. Eat it, Whedon!

  

  Brian K. Vaughan