John Kricfalusi Quotes

Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

John Kricfalusi

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• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Mountain
  • Climbing

• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Model
  • London
  • Suburbs

• The first sentence of a book is a promise.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Book
  • Promise
  • First

• We all have fears, especially when we're younger. I was afraid of clowns.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Afraid
  • Fears
  • Clowns

• After graduating in engineering I went to the University of Kansas to get an MA in economics as a vehicle for allowing me to decide if I wanted to continue in economics.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Me
  • Engineering
  • Economics

• I think trust is the most important thing. If the actors and the director and the crew trust each other and you set up perimeters and boundaries, you give everyone space to do great work.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Long
  • Interesting
  • Thoughts

• My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • Responsibility

• There's always going to be someone out there who doesn't like what you do, doesn't like your style, your face. That's part of life. But I feed off that. I don't think I'd be where I am today if it wasn't for that. It puts a little fire in the belly, keeps me going so I can prove so many people wrong.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• In 10 months, I was replaced from three films. That's when I realised I need to take my work seriously. It's a blessing I didn't get things easy. If I had, I wouldn't realise the value of success.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Success
  • Value

• For the first time I understood the haunting beauty of the song. It was the song of a killer who longed to die. It was the song of justice yearned for but not yet done.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Done
  • Song

• I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

  

  Samuel Alito
  • Proud

• I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more— from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Excellence
  • Engagement

• I didn't want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

  

  David McCallum
  • Life
  • Money
  • Nice

• I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

  

  Jennifer Damiano
  • Funny
  • Teen

• This group, DAR, is probably one of the finest groups there is, not only in the State of Michigan but also in the United States of America, and to be recognized by this group here in Kalamazoo, and I believe statewide too, I'm very honored.

  

  James McCloughan
  • Believe
  • America

• I like to look casual yet chic. I love high fashion, vintage, and places like Zara, of course.

  

  Martha Hunt
  • High
  • Fashion

• I got my degree in theatre at a little school in Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg University. It was one of those situations where I went into the major because I loved it, but didn't really expect to see it as a moneymaking situation or career.

  

  Jimmi Simpson
  • School
  • Career
  • Theatre

• Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.

  

  John Kricfalusi