Arik Roper Quotes

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

Arik Roper

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• I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Great
  • Heart

• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • History
  • Me
  • Big

• I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Think
  • Famous
  • Paris

• Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Science
  • Man

• When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Team

• Traditional history appears to be the defacto recognition of every evil deed that failed to be stopped or eliminated.

  

  Dagobert D. Runes
  • History
  • Evil
  • Deeds

• The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Ability
  • Consequence
  • Mark

• Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, "getting in touch with your sexuality," "raising your self-esteem," "relaxation therapy," and "being a recovered bulimic."

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Pride
  • Lust
  • Self-Esteem

• Theres nothing half so pleasant as coming home again.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Home
  • Half

• i remember we all cried like the Missouri when my Uncle Sol's coffin lurched because somebody pressed a button (and down went my uncle Sol and started a worm farm)

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Remember
  • Uncle

• Breaking my neck was the best thing that ever happened to me. I have an Olympic medal. I've been to so many countries I would never have been, met so many people I would never have met. I've done more in the chair, ... than a whole hell of a lot of people who aren't in chairs.

  

  Mark Zupan
  • People
  • Country
  • Done

• It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Loyalty
  • Betrayal

• Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Conscience
  • Neighbors
  • Pickup

• One arises from a low to a high station more often by using fraud instead of force.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Force
  • Fraud
  • Using

• When I'm singing, I connect the dots with notes.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Singing
  • Notes
  • Dots

• I seemed to have been born reading.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Reading
  • Born
  • Been

• We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.

  

  Morten Harket A-ha
  • Money
  • Loved
  • Starving

• I'd love to continue my career in Hollywood - I'd love to do another action film, or a romantic comedy, or horror. I love horror films.

  

  Rain
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.

  

  Josh Helman
  • Film
  • Comics
  • Fanatics

• I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism.

  

  Arik Roper
  • Horror
  • Comics
  • Underground