Ann Nocenti Quotes

When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

Ann Nocenti

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• I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Amount
  • Scholar
  • Nihilism

• Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Trying
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Think
  • Me
  • Bother

• The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Mind
  • You
  • More

• I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Important
  • Business
  • True

• We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Win

• I haven't fallen that much, but when I have, it's usually in the attempt to do something worthwhile. As for recovery, you just have to get up!

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • You
  • Something

• As a child, I had a serious illness that lasted for two years or more. I have vague recollections of this illness and of my being carried about a great deal. I was known as the 'sick one.' Whether this illness gave me a twist away from ordinary paths, I don't know; but it is possible.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • Great
  • Serious
  • Child

• I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • America
  • United Nations

• We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • You
  • Road
  • Grand Canyon

• Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Time
  • Why
  • Enjoy

• Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!

  

  Becky G
  • Time
  • Like
  • Got

• I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Human
  • Psychology

• People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots of good reasons for not reading novels! I'm also a game writer who doesn't play games - I keep everything very separate. The only crossover with me is comics. I write them, and I read them passionately.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • People
  • Good
  • Game

• I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Acting

• If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be 'Calm down!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Advice
  • Self
  • Calm

• To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Job
  • Feeling
  • Know

• My parents separated when I was 2, and my dad always lived in Chicago and my mother in L.A. I'd go back and forth and sometimes spend the summer with my dad, but L.A. was home.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Home
  • Mother
  • Parents

• Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.

  

  Brad Garrett
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sports

• Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Economy

• Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Political
  • Control
  • Gun

• I couldn't think of anything worse than going to a fancy dress party. So, if somebody invited me to one, I'd go as the Invisible Man and not turn up.

  

  David Morrissey
  • Up
  • Party

• My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.

  

  Jessica Stockholder
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• When you choose the sword over a gun, just like Green Arrow chooses an arrow over a gun and Catwoman chooses a whip over a gun, you have to be highly skilled and highly trained. I can grab Green Arrow's bow, but I'm not strong enough to shoot it. I can grab Catwoman's whip, but have you ever tried to whip a whip? It's not easy.

  

  Ann Nocenti
  • Strong
  • Green
  • Gun