Brian Selznick Quotes

I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you can't do it.

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• We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Fight

• The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Good
  • Home
  • Kids

• In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Different
  • Lost
  • Memory

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Up
  • America
  • Light

• When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Beginning

• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Fall
  • Intellectual
  • Continue

• I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

  

  Patricia Millett
  • Help
  • Influence
  • Legal

• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Will
  • Laws
  • Thieves

• Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Believe
  • Influence
  • Legends

• I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Like
  • Take
  • Sensitive

• You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Control

• I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Funny
  • Myself

• For me, growing up in a ridiculously poor family living in dead-end neighborhoods, Superman was a deeply personal icon, one that said you can do anything if you put your mind to it. What he stood for formed the core of who I wanted to be as I grew up, and informed how I view the world and my responsibilities to other people.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Location is the sole difference between mobile and traditional Web.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Difference
  • Location
  • Mobile

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• A melody is not merely something you can hum.

  

  Aaron Copland
  • You
  • Something
  • Melody

• Humility is an attribute of every good Hindu.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Good
  • Humility
  • Hindu

• One of the things I've always enjoyed is moving around and staying fit. Physicality is such a big part of being an actor, but it's also about stillness and silence.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Moving
  • Silence

• Regulations have certainly gone too far in a number of areas, but it's important to remember that regulations are meant to be protective, and when it comes to the EPA, that means protecting human health and our world.

  

  Christine Todd Whitman
  • World
  • Important
  • Remember

• If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.

  

  Doug Larson
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Life
  • Important
  • Should

• You're always close and you never get that big romantic lead.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • You
  • Romantic
  • Lead

• I think the most important thing you can do is to keep drawing no matter what. And to not be afraid of drawing whatever interests you. If there is something that you want to draw, to make, then I think you should pursue it and not let anybody tell you that you can't do it.

  

  Brian Selznick
  • Important
  • Drawing