Hernandez Quotes & Sayings

I think I related more literally to the early 'Spider-Man' comics from Steve Ditko because it could be upfront and direct about the problems of being a kid. He captured being a teenager so beautifully. — Gilbert Hernandez

Your Beauty Is What Counts. — Selena Hernandez

I watch YouTube and other peers of mine. There's a lot of things I can't do and also I'm very unorthodox, I want to work on my mechanics and technique. — Eric Hernandez

They're indifference should not be the cause of your non-existence. — Flor Hernandez

It was the only act of rebellion I knew - to be worthy of such an insult as "butterfly. — R.J. Hernandez

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts. — Lazaro Hernandez

Goth was sort of the melancholy cousin of punk that says: there's a lot of evil in this world, there's a lot of very mean spirited people and that makes me sad. — Aurelio Voltaire Hernandez

I don't feel so sad when somebody dies, Julio, because they fly away to explore the stars and planets. When it's our turn we join them in exploring the universe. — Gilbert Hernandez

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio. — Gilbert Hernandez

But the Twins opened the fifth with their second and third hits, and Beltre helped Hernandez by taking his bullet throw for a force at third on a bunt try. I felt it, ... My only worry was that he didn't throw me a sinker. He threw hard, but a good fastball. — Adrian Beltre

What I miss most about Mexico isn't the food or the customs; it's my family and the way we'd all sit around chatting together. — Javier Hernandez

I like doing whatever interests me. It's a challenge for me to try to make good comics out of any genre I tackle. I trust my instincts in getting me through the more difficult genres for modern readers, like violent crime or horror stories. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

I can't say anything I don't love about Seattle. — Felix Hernandez

Once I became a cop and it's like when I got back into drumming; if I focus on something I become that, so I became a cop. — Eric Hernandez

By virtue of their English and the light color of their faces, these teachers determine the words that creep into my dreams at night. I envy them. I want what they have. I want my words to matter. — Daisy Hernandez

I get to draw what I like to draw, basically people hangin' around, and write very humanistic kinds of situations and characters. But I do also like to draw adventure stories - more in terms of drawing them than writing them - and letting my imagination go wild. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

I shined off high school band, marching, jazz studies. At the time I was too cool for school, I had this professional gig and I was going home taking a shower and heading to downtown Hawaii, Waikiki. — Eric Hernandez

I've always been interested in the way males seem to need to start clubs, or cults, to keep girls out until they need them for sex. It comes from some weird immature tribal crap, I'm sure. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

It works for me, the way I play drums and the things I do but I also would like to know proper technique. Mainly for health - to last longer, be able to play longer. — Eric Hernandez

The Tom Strong thing was totally for the money. I plan to get looser after I finish this Maggie saga. — Jaime Hernandez

It wasn't until I started to do 'Poison River' that the readership started falling. 'Poison River' started out very slowly and simply, but then it got really dense and complicated. I don't know, I think the readers just got fed up or burned out. They started dropping off. — Gilbert Hernandez

I look at the white woman's cards and listen to her bold English words - dog, cat, house - and there is all the evidence of what is to come in my life. I am not to go the way of the two people I long for in the thick terror of the night. The first man I love and the first woman I adore, my father and my mother with their Spanish words, are not in these cards. The road before me is English and the next part too awful to ask aloud or even silently: What is so wrong with my parents that I am not to mimic their hands, their needs, not even their words? — Daisy Hernandez

Because he refused to adopt a defeatist attitude, he overcame the obstacles in his path. — James C. Dobson

All the young designers now are doing something interesting. — Lazaro Hernandez

I'm working so much I don't see the work of many young cartoonists so it's hard for me to tell which are my favourites. Maybe when I get to stick my head out of the sand I'll be able to let you know. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie. — Jaime Hernandez

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded! — Gilbert Hernandez

It is an empty room, that afterwards, a soledad, and it sits there at the center of a person's life and waits to be filled. — Daisy Hernandez

The classification above is based on a 2011 presentation by MIT grad student David Hernandez for my cosmology class. Because such simplistic taxonomies are strictly impossible, they should be taken with a large grain of salt: — Max Tegmark

I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me. — Gilbert Hernandez

I know what a good movie is. — Gilbert Hernandez

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like. — Jaime Hernandez

Two women in love confirms for me that there is a love that can push you beyond what everyone else says is possible. I — Daisy Hernandez

We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country. — Gilbert Hernandez

We're not in high school anymore and we've had a little more life experiences to help us better understand what were going through in terms of stardom and recognition. — Jay Hernandez

If you want to win the World Cup, you need to play against the best national teams in the world. — Javier Hernandez

He says black, I say white and we do grey — Lazaro Hernandez

Moving to a new country is always difficult, but the fact my dad and my sister came to live with me was a huge help. That made things easier. — Javier Hernandez

Holding onto resentment is like slapping yourself in the face and thinking someone else will feel the pain. — Nick Hernandez

I don't want to be just an average guy. I want to do whatever possible to win a lot of games. I'm a competitor. — Felix Hernandez

I leave a lot open so I can fill it in later. If I don't have any ideas right away, I can fill it in later. — Jaime Hernandez

Every year, you have to keep adjusting. I'm 28; I'm not 19 anymore. You have to work harder now. — Felix Hernandez

Death is the road to awe. — Fernando Hernandez

I've known gay people - men and women - since I was a young person. To me it's just naturalistic and realistic to portray gay characters in a humanistic light. As a young man, I knew enough gay people as people not to fear them. On the other side of the coin, I like to irritate conservatives and homophobes. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard! — Jaime Hernandez

Acting is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not an aspiring actor and you should be able to tell. — Keith Hernandez

As a drummer my job is to reproduce what made the people bop their heads when they first heard the album on the radio, or when they watched the music video. — Eric Hernandez

Living in a world: where to be born, is a mere by mention. To be living, a story. Then to die, our eternal; restart! — Stb Hernandez

[Dona Queta] says that her motherly advice is always the same: 'Only whores, thieves, and cops go out at night. Which one are you, asshole?' p. 157 — Daniel Hernandez

I'd heard about Texas football and how much of a religion it is, but to go to Odessa and experience it first-hand is something different than just hearing about it. — Jay Hernandez

I want to thank Jesus, and by Jesus I mean Jesus Hernandez, my bodyguard — Will Ferrell

Sales are proof that somebody is reading. — Jessica Hernandez

I grew up being really insecure and dumped on, over-feeling certain things in a negative way. So I thought I had something to prove. — Gilbert Hernandez

Best thing that's happened this year? Maybe Hostel. It was a great experience. I loved it. — Jay Hernandez

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things. — Jaime Hernandez

Sex is the main way we exist on the planet. It's an essential part of life. — Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story. They take time, effort, revisions. When — Daisy Hernandez

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process. — Lazaro Hernandez

There is an audience for everything; our job as writers is to do the work and provide readers with a choice. — Elizabeth Hernandez

I grew up in LA. I sort of watched the Raiders play and that sort of thing. — Jay Hernandez

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm like, 'Wait a minute, you've had those times in your life. Everybody has.' — Gilbert Hernandez

When you work somewhere and you feel comfortable, you don't want to leave. You want to stay there forever. — Felix Hernandez

When you can't pitch with your arm, you go with your heart. — Orlando Hernandez

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die. — Orlando Hernandez

Playing drums or music, being a musician, is inside of you. So you would always see me tapping on something, playing on tables ... I never felt the need to pull out drums. — Eric Hernandez

Hector Torrez, how can you communicate with Enzo Hernandez when he speaks Spanish and you speak Mexican? — Jerry Coleman

Feminism is comprised of values that are important to you as a woman, not ideals arrived at by forced consensus to which you should adjust your own life. — Daisy Hernandez

For me, the hardest part is taking lessons, and it's hard teaching an old dog new tricks, so part of my re-teaching myself is opening my mind too. I just want to get better and I think there's nothing wrong with wanting to get better. — Eric Hernandez

I do not believe that I should only write about what I know but that I should write also of the other. — Felisberto Hernandez

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace. — Gilbert Hernandez

Buenos dias, she said in response to Hernandez's soft greeting. They had a pact to speak only Spanish to each other, with the result that their conversation never got beyond hello and good-bye. — Wallace Stegner

I didn't cost the Series. I cost a game in the regular season. — Keith Hernandez

They can't have Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling lose a game. — Keith Hernandez

Life is like poker. Fair, random and risky.
As your crappy hand can win the game without it being seen, and even change mid-game.
-Alan Hernandez — Alan Hernandez

No, I was going to college and got discovered. — Jay Hernandez

I've sort of dealt with the characters' lives more; particularly the women characters. — Gilbert Hernandez

There are a couple of projects that are sort of on the plate; I haven't closed any of them yet. I'm trying to figure out which one is going to be the best one for me. — Jay Hernandez

Once I became a cop. I dived into that career. I never wanted to be an LAPD officer because I thought 'LA is super dangerous, not the place I'd want to be a cop'. But as a boy of course I was into guns, cops and robbers, so that's why it was cool to me and thought 'Yeah I could do this job'. — Eric Hernandez

America may not realize it yet, but Latin prototypes are being created right now, and not just by me. They are these mambo kings and salsa queens, Aztec lords and Inca princesses, every Hernandez and Fernandez, whom this country will one day come to understand and respect. — John Leguizamo

I was a child again. At home, sitting next to Grandfather...

'Ah!' I awoke with a gasp. — Briana Hernandez

As much as I hate to admit it, books have limitations. Over — Daisy Hernandez

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good. — Keith Hernandez

At times, my confidence is rock bottom, although I try for it to be sky high, thanks to the people that are always there with me and support me. — Javier Hernandez

Success is a journey, not a destination. — Rachel Hernandez

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal. — Gilbert Hernandez

My goal is not to have everlasting fame, it is simply to write the stories that are asking me to write them and to share them with the people that want to hear them. — Elizabeth Hernandez

Whichever character I'm using and wherever I am in my mind dictates what kind of story I'm going to tell. — Gilbert Hernandez

I felt like challenging myself and challenging my readers with something darker and heavier. I don't know how to explain it, because I'm not a political person. I have two political stories, and that's it: 'Human Diastrophism' and 'Poison River.' — Gilbert Hernandez

I am self taught. My dad threw me in with a drum set at the age of four and I figured it out! — Eric Hernandez

It's always challenging to go into a role. — Jay Hernandez

There are no do-overs in life. — Conchita Hernandez Hicks

I was in the situation of someone who has assumed, all his life, that madness was on eway, and suddenly in its grip, discovers that it is not only different from the way he'd imagined but that the person suffering from it is someone else, and that this someone else is not interested in finding out what madness is like: he is simply immersed in it, or it has descended on him, and that's that. — Felisberto Hernandez

My dad taught me not to overplay, to think about my parts when I play, even in a live situation. — Eric Hernandez

I was living in different accommodation and it was never in a place where I could set up my drums and play, so my drums would end up back in their cases and then in the garage. In the end I got used to the drums being locked up, I went a good eight years without touching drums. — Eric Hernandez

I pretty much isolated myself away from drums. I stopped looking at Modern Drummer, I stopped looking at websites. — Eric Hernandez

In this funny debut, flashy Filipino fashion designer Boy Hernandez sees his American dream become a nightmare when he's ensnared in a terrorist plot and shipped to Guantanamo. Gilvarry nails the couture scene, but Boy's rough journey from Manolo to Gitmo is no joke. — Andrew Abrahams

Science can make the legs of a dead frog dance by running electricity through them. But that doesn't mean dead frogs like to dance. — Carlos Hernandez

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody. — Felix Hernandez

In the old days, I just could not leave characters alone. Now I just try to keep the ones that still have something in the way of stories to tell. — Gilbert Hernandez