Scott McCloud Quotes

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

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• All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.

  

  Bart Stupak
  • Life
  • Law
  • Health

• When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Child
  • Well
  • Vegetables

• I have had the problem of seeing my male model go to Italy and... stay there.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Problem
  • Model
  • Seeing

• If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Life

• It's a strange lesson to learn in life that your differences, the things that make you feel uncomfortable about yourself are what will help you to grow into who you are. Those are your gifts.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Life
  • Help
  • You

• We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the physical universe is that this hope can never be realized. Sin always accompanies misery. There is no victimless crime, and all creation is subject to decay because of humanity’s rebellion from God.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Hope
  • Father

• Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

  

  Irving Howe
  • Writing
  • Single
  • Rest

• Loved people are loving people.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • People
  • Loved
  • Loving

• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Minds
  • Horror
  • Beasts

• Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Men
  • Charity
  • Brotherhood

• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Fool

• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Artist

• People ask me who he reminds me of. After this performance, he doesn't remind me of anybody.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • People
  • Performance
  • Reminds

• I have never felt any rest in sleep. For a few seconds I am numbed, then a new life begins, freed from the conditions of time and space, and doubtless similar to that state which awaits us after death. Who knows if there is not some link between those two existences and if it is not possible for the soul to unite them now?

  

  Gerard De Nerval
  • Space
  • Existence
  • States

• There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Die
  • Causes
  • Kill

• Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Sick
  • Healthy
  • Kill

• I'm collateral damage. I'm road kill. And in 72 hours, nobody is going to remember who I am nor are they going to care.

  

  Eric Massa
  • Remember
  • Kill
  • Damage

• To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

  

  Scott McCloud
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