Jerry Robinson Quotes

We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • World
  • Look
  • Say

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

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Men
  • Pride
  • Humility

• You can write whatever you want about me in websites and newspapers, but no one really knows me. They get the idea that I'm a tough, heroic figure, but I'm a sensitive pussycat.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Me
  • Idea
  • Tough

• There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Write
  • Nothing
  • Really

• I don't recognize my former self. Like I'm on the outside looking in at my life. Who is that guy?

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Life
  • Guy
  • My Life

• An individual voice can be heard in a choir that otherwise sings in unison. This is something that is not excused.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Voice
  • Individual
  • Choir

• I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Time
  • Career
  • Past

• 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

• It's about people rising up in Ferguson and in Egypt and in Occupy Wall Street and in every place where a community has had enough and decides to make change happen. It's not about praising one charismatic leader but celebrating thousands of them... 'Black Messiah' is not one man. It's a feeling that, collectively, we are all that leader.

  

  D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • Passion
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• Through thicke and thin, both over banke and bush In hope her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Hope

• The least we desire from the institutions of the free world, and especially the US and the countries of the European Union, is that they appreciate our struggle for freedom. We want them to discharge their responsibilities towards vulnerable people and support them in the face of the cruelty of rulers who continue to kill.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • World
  • Free

• The plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Long
  • Done

• And tiny vessels oozed into your neck And formed the bruises That you said you didn't want to fade But they did and so did I that day

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie

• While we are reading, we are all Don Quixote.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Reading

• We are in a culture where it's so easy to just turn things off that you don't like. And I think that doesn't make you a well-rounded person or artist. You have to be able to take the good with the bad and have opinions on things!

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Culture

• Fans write to us via our publisher and more than ever via the Internet, blogs and fan sites, and good writers should be actively seeking out that interaction. Gone are the days when writers are dead or hidden away in dusty attics; nowadays, you've got to get out there.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Good

• Al Plastino helped redefine Superman in the 1950s. His work on 'Superman's Girlfriend,' 'Lois Lane,' 'Adventure Comics' and pretty much any title in the Superman family will be fondly remembered for years to come. He will be missed.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Work
  • Family
  • Pretty

• It's not that you can do this calculated move to try to further your career. You just follow what's in your heart, and later you look back and go, 'I was either really dumb or really smart, I can't believe I did that.'

  

  Dierks Bentley
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Career

• Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

  

  Melanie Roach

• We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.

  

  Jerry Robinson
  • Depression
  • Batman
  • Superman