Harvey Pekar Quotes

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in...

Harvey Pekar

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• A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • Men
  • Book

• I don't blame other people for the rap that Christians have. A lot of Christians are just mental. A lot of Christians are more concerned with telling you where you're gonna go when you die than what you can have while you're here.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • People
  • Die
  • Rap

• Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Week
  • Changing
  • Cinema

• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• My first husband met me as a career woman, and the second did, too. I was lucky.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Career
  • Woman
  • Husband

• Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • Good
  • Long
  • You

• There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Think
  • Game
  • Air

• I normally start at the computer with something really simple like a four-bar loop of a drum sample or a bass line. And then I just start adding layers of synthesizers.

  

  Washed Out
  • Simple
  • Start
  • Layers

• Today, currently, business owners can go out and find out if the person they are hiring is eligible to work here or if they are not. We need to think about how we are impacting workers.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Work
  • Business
  • Today

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Summer
  • Year
  • Winter

• There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.

  

  Candace Camp
  • Romantic
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Darkness
  • Lights
  • Curse

• I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Successful
  • Regret
  • More

• I have such a crush on Shirley Manson. I think she's the coolest thing.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Think
  • Crush
  • Shirley Manson

• When it comes to investing, you are your own worst enemy.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Own

• I just like putting outfits together without much thought and seeing what the outcome is.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Together
  • Thought
  • Seeing

• No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • May
  • She
  • Man

• If bigots oppose gay marriage so vehemently, it must be because marriage is a defining institution for them; gays will never be fully accepted until they can marry and adopt, like anyone else.

  

  Edmund White
  • Marriage
  • Never
  • Gay

• I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Done
  • Think
  • Language

• In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Control
  • Rock
  • Kid

• When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Kid
  • Hippie
  • Embarrassing

• All understanding begins in wonder!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Understanding
  • Wonder

• I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in...

  

  Harvey Pekar
  • Kid
  • Cosmics
  • Junior high school