Scott McCloud Quotes

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

Scott McCloud

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• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Life
  • World
  • Future

• How boring would this world be if everyone was the same?

  

  Halima Aden
  • World
  • Same
  • Everyone

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• Cyberespionage and cyberattack is exploding from our adversaries inside our country. We don't seem capable of stopping it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Inside
  • Capable

• A lot of people are angry about the democratic abuses that have been committed by the Spanish government.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • People
  • Government
  • Angry

• In computer circles, any unencrypted data is known as 'cleartext.'

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Computer
  • Data
  • Circles

• If you believe - which I do - that acting is a bit like advocacy for your character, then of course I want to find the positive points.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Positive

• It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Unknown

• Our dreams are firsthand creations, rather than residues of waking life. We have the capacity for infinite creativity; at least while dreaming, we partake of the power of the Spirit, the infinite Godhead that creates the cosmos.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • Life
  • Power
  • Creativity

• In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Food
  • Morning
  • Summer

• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Voice
  • Lord
  • Theologian

• The music industry is in such poor shape; it's in a really bad way, and a lot of people in the industry are very depressed.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Music
  • Bad

• When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Band
  • Going
  • Ending

• It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Human

• I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Fear
  • Doing
  • Rejection

• But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Funny
  • Thought
  • Movies

• From what they've said, it could be revolutionary. The product that they're going to be manufacturing has great marketing potential.

  

  Larry Williams
  • Marketing
  • Potential
  • Product

• The beauty with comics - and also the risk - is it is a far smaller number of voices. It's the writer and the artist and to a lesser extent the editor, who typically is the silent partner, if you've got a good enough team. Whatever you put out is the author's intent. You have to be able to defend that, of course. You have no one to hide behind, or no one to blame but yourselves, which I find refreshing because I've found in film too many times I've been blamed for other people's decisions.

  

  Eric Heisserer
  • Artist
  • Risk
  • Writer

• I think it's important for us as a society to remember that the youth within juvenile justice systems are, most of the time, youths who simply haven't had the right mentors and supporters around them - because of circumstances beyond their control.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Time
  • Important
  • Remember

• I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Potential
  • Comics