Chris Ware Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.
-
You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
-
The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You can't have a government within the country and not have control over everything that's happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.
-
The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
-
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
-
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
-
Media play a powerful role in establishing and perpetuating social norms.
-
Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
-
Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
-
There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.
-
Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
-
The whole of society is like a cabbage-stalk covered with caterpillars, and none is satisfied till it has crawled to the top.
-
A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
-
Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
-
I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
-
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
-
I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
-
I had this revelation, you are a lot better at the between-song stuff than you are at the song stuff. That was devastating. And I usually find devastating things to be pretty valuable.
-
Working with Barneys, and choosing the looks, I was thinking about whether a real woman would buy this outfit and feel beautiful and comfortable.
-
I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
-
I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.
-
There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.
-
Scaremongering is an age-old political ritual. There are public officials who have benefited by playing up the 'hacker threat' so that they can win approval by cracking down on it.
-
The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
