Jeff Lemire Quotes

I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

Jeff Lemire

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• Violence

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• My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Me
  • Mom
  • Inspired

• We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.

  

  Warren Weaver
  • Science
  • Ignorance
  • View

• I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Best
  • Flower
  • Gardening

• When I first got married to my husband, he had boxes full of photos of my two stepsons, ages 5 and 8 at the time, and I put them together in some little albums and wrote notes about how happy I was that they were a part of my life.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Together

• I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Dream
  • Best
  • Promise

• I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • More
  • Medicine
  • Practicing

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • House
  • Air
  • Sick

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Mind
  • Know
  • Body

• Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.

  

  Carlos Salinas de Gortari
  • Hand
  • Go
  • Ecology

• I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Wish
  • Same
  • Old

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • World
  • Long
  • Rome

• If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?

  

  Beck
  • Experience
  • Know
  • Judgment

• Hopefully, ... as we go here in preseason, we'll get in groove with our whole offense.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Team
  • Training
  • Offense

• Know more than other. Work more than other. Expect less than other

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows

• I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Dog

• And then he was kissing her, and she was struck by his nearness, his solidity, his smell. It was of the garden and the earth and the sun. When Cassandra opened her eyes, she realized she was crying. She wasn't sad, though, these were the tears of being found, of having come home after a long time away.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Earth
  • Sun
  • Garden

• Psychopaths are actually, really, really, really rare in our culture, are people who don't... Or in society, in the world. They're people who don't feel guilt. They're people who don't feel fear. I think that most of us feel those things. There's a kind of... They're almost like superheroes. Not to glorify them, but you know what I mean?

  

  Annie Parisse
  • People
  • World
  • Society

• I think America's obsession with guns and with violence in media and society is a horrible sickness.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • America
  • Society
  • Violence