Classic Comic Book Quotes & Sayings

The world-traveler must, on the one hand, be ready (and actually seek) to visit a tribe in the Solomon Islands or stay with Tibetan nomads; on the other hand, he has to be prepared, when it is required, to wear his suit to attend a classical music concert in a big metropolis. Just as an important part of exploring Brazil is to visit its shantytowns, it is an indispensable part of understanding the French culture to eat at a gourmet restaurant in Paris. — Nicos Hadjicostis

I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world. — Anne Tyler

We have an agreement," she explained. "I watch nothing to do with a hobbit, Vulcan, or comic book hero, and in return, Dexter's not forced to sit through a foreign romance, a BBC production, or one my classic films. — Kristin Billerbeck

Do not fall in love with the praises of men or one day you will be heartbroken. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape. — Charles R. Schwab

Honesty pays dividends both in dollars and in peace of mind. — B.C. Forbes

I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just tell the band's stories; if I describe the music, it's to explain how it moved the overall story along. — Michael Azerrad

A cult classic ... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations. — Jim Jarmusch

What I'm always afraid of is going off-book,I always get upset when the director leaves the classic comic that was so very popular. I argued, and I won't say with who about what, but when we go way away from the original source material ... that material is popular for a reason and I like to stick with it. — Lauren Shuler Donner

Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter. — Corrie Ten Boom

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen. — Dana Gioia

I don't know why I feel so compelled to tell Olivia all my dirty little secrets, but I do — M. Leighton

They say that a shared sorrow draws people closer together; I can hardly believe that it often has that effect when those who share it are of widely different ages. — C.S. Lewis