William Gaddis Quotes

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

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• Now Heaven and Earth are older than the temples, and older than the Scriptures.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Now

• Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Comic

• I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Child
  • Movies
  • Books

• It's very exciting to be able to just work in this business, let alone on stuff you are extremely proud of. So it does make me a little nervous, because 'Breaking Bad' is so special. It's great being part of something so great because people pay attention to you, hopefully because you're doing good work.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Good
  • Years
  • Better

• I am not Dwight Schrute, okay? I played a character for 200 episodes, and it was an awesome character, and he was a beet farmer. That doesn’t mean you should hand me beets or make beet jokes every time I go into Starbucks and ask if they have like a beet latte or something like that.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Hand

• In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Enemy
  • Revenge

• I never read comic books as a kid.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Kid
  • Read
  • Comic

• There's a bunch of plays that I never got to do because I was either too young or too old for the parts, like 'Slow Dance on the Killing Ground' and 'Dutchman.' For 'American Buffalo,' I was the wrong color.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • American
  • Dance
  • Color

• I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.

  

  Anne-Marie Duff
  • Work
  • Nice

• Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a bottleneck, then now your mind has to make decisions of what is important and what is going to be above the radar and what's going to be below the radar.

  

  Apollo Robbins
  • Important
  • Mind

• How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.

  

  Marvin Minsky

• People have a comic bent or an angularity to their thinking, and those are the people who make jokes. And it's usually people who were in an environment, when they were young, where jokes were at a premium, or at least considered important to a life. My parents always listened to the comedy radio shows, we went to the comedy movies, and my parents appreciated comedy. So kids listen and follow what their parents like.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • People
  • Life
  • Thinking

• [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Life
  • May
  • Experience

• There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil.

  

  Gabriel Ba
  • Years
  • Famous
  • Comic

• I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Field
  • Comic
  • Pigeonholed

• I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Couple
  • Comic
  • Clean Material

• If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Star
  • Comic
  • Photojournalist

• If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Community
  • Scene
  • Comic

• One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

  

  Michael McMillian
  • People
  • Wonder
  • Comeback

• I grew up in a family where I had a lot of different siblings from - you know, I grew up in a big family, and I think it's a beautiful thing.

  

  Evan Ross
  • Family
  • I Think
  • Grew Up

• We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

  

  William Gaddis
  • Comic