John Wesley Shipp Quotes

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

John Wesley Shipp

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• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Justice
  • Easy
  • Injustice

• I take four planes a week, honestly. You know, I am for intelligence screening.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Week
  • Intelligence
  • Planes

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• I don't know what would have happened to Wal-Mart if we had laid low and never stirred up the competition. My guess is that we would have remained a strictly regional operator.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • Know
  • Never

• If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Man
  • Blame
  • Cricket

• In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Job

• I don't have goals in life.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Goals

• The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Truth
  • Me
  • Sex

• I pick out young people and teach them in less time than it would take me to alter the methods of people from the boards, and I get actors who look the parts they have to fill.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • People
  • Time
  • Actors

• I'm the biggest music lover in the world. I mean, I have seen everybody. I went on tour with Michael Jackson and the Jacksons four or five times.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • World
  • Music
  • Mean

• At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Children
  • Small
  • Moment

• It's nice to be number one on the call sheet.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Nice
  • Call
  • Number

• A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Money
  • Hope
  • Man

• Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Love
  • Power
  • For Her

• The garlands fade, the vows are worn away; So dies her love, and so my hopes decay.

  

  Alexander Pope

• I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Writing
  • Song

• I heard your suitcase say goodbye

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Goodbye

• One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.

  

  Edmund White
  • Career
  • You
  • Benefits

• There is always this quarrel about what is preferable: the straight, naturalistic, epic storytelling or the modernistic, disjointed, slightly hermetic one. To me it does not matter, as long as it's good. I like both kinds. Although the common reader seems to prefer the first, which is to be expected, and who would blame her?

  

  Per Petterson
  • Good
  • Long

• Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

  

  Bill Rancic
  • Business
  • Learning
  • Trump

• The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

  

  Lauren Tarshis
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Advice

• Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

  

  John Wesley Shipp