Comic Quotes
777 quotes by 558 authors
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video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".
— Guillermo del Toro
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Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.
— Jeannette Walls
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Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin…
— Wallace Stegner
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You used your power to toss one rock at me?" he exclaimed, an almost comic note of incredulity in his voice. "On the contrary," I…
— Richelle Mead
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Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days…
— Jonathan Stroud
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You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still…
— Bill Watterson
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The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged…
— Ralph Ellison
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I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
— Edward Said
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A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which…
— Louisa May Alcott
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I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
— Anne Frank
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Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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That’s nice of you, but it’s not necessary to loan me a car.†“I loan you cars all the time.†“And I almost always destroy…
— Janet Evanovich
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But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life…
— Katherine Applegate
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Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.
— Lev Grossman
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Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some…
— Kelley Armstrong
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I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in supermarkets and leaflets…
— Janice Galloway
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Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might…
— Alan Rickman
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Sarah turned her narrow-eyed gaze on him, making me glad once more that Antimony's comic books got it wrong, and telepaths can't actually kill you…
— Mira Grant
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Verbing weirds language.
— Bill Watterson
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If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen through a microscope,…
— Irvin D. Yalom
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