Kelly Sue DeConnick Quotes

One of the things I enjoyed when working in manga was when I couldn't tell where anything was going because there weren't narrative tropes and structures I was used to. After doing it for seven years, I got to the point where I did see structures. I did start to learn, but at first I didn't know where it was going. It was very exciting for me.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Relationship
  • Government

• Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

  

  Eddie Kaye Thomas
  • Important
  • Comedy
  • Editing

• I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Book
  • inspirational
  • Lyric

• When I'm traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It's a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Community

• The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Think
  • Gay

• Just being in the gym every day with someone with goals in common is special.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Day
  • Goals
  • Gym

• Water is good, but if you have too much, you drown. So is water bad, or is it good? It's both.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Water

• I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Men
  • History

• Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - the concept maybe - something that we don't see at the end on the catwalk, I think the way it was, the genesis in my mind, was probably artistic, an artistic approach.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Mind
  • Moments
  • Thought

• You don't swing where you sleep.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Where

• Of Lord Chesterfield This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but, I find, he is only a wit among Lords!

  

  Samuel Johnson

• 'If you are prepared to die, you are prepared to live.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Live
  • Die

• He Simon Cowell is actually very lovely in real life. We share the same interests, and he shares my love for animals as well.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Life
  • Real

• The Constitution is a delusion and a snare if the weakest and humblest man in the land cannot be defended in his right to speak and his right to think as much as the strongest in the land.

  

  Clarence Darrow

• Whatever happens, I cannot be a silent witness to murder or torture. Anyone who is a partner in this is a despicable individual. I am sorry I cannot be moderate about it...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sorry
  • Partner

• After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Music
  • Silence

• There’s been a tsunami of media, and I’ve been riding it on a mercury surfboard.

  

  Charlie Sheen

• If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

  

  Kirk Douglas

• If you have something really important you want to say, you have to read your audience, I guess.

  

  Cary Fukunaga
  • Important
  • Want
  • Audience

• Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

  

  George Foreman
  • Sports
  • Boxing
  • Aspire

• As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Time

• In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi

• When you can't think of anything else, photograph graffiti, nudes, or plants.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Photograph
  • Graffiti
  • Can't Think

• One of the things I enjoyed when working in manga was when I couldn't tell where anything was going because there weren't narrative tropes and structures I was used to. After doing it for seven years, I got to the point where I did see structures. I did start to learn, but at first I didn't know where it was going. It was very exciting for me.

  

  Kelly Sue DeConnick