Marvel Kingpin Quotes & Sayings

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do. — Oscar Isaac

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation. — Peter Landesman

I feel like a fool, so I'm going to stop troubling you. — Sara Quin

The undeniable paradox of human existence is that a person seeks closeness with other people while protecting his or her sanctified right of privacy. Each person must carefully guard their personal identity in order to give their life a unique purposefulness. Loving other people and nature is not mutually exclusive of a person maintaining independence of thought and action. A person need not surrender his or her own pursuit of personal excellence when maintaining a respectful and reciprocal relationship with a life mate. — Kilroy J. Oldster

Despite all of our incessant tinkering, we can't manufacture the things we most desperately need. And if perchance we do, they will never be more than pathetically emaciated facsimiles that will leave us emaciated. And until we finally realize that we can only 'find' these things, we will never sense any compulsion to 'find' God. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Write what haunts you. What keeps you up at night. What you are unable to get out of your mind. Sometimes they are the hardest things to write, but those are often the things that are worth investigating by you specifically ... — Edwidge Danticat

A child's pleasure in listening to stories lies partly in waiting for things he expects to be repeated: situations, phrases, formulas. Just as in poems and songs the rhymes help to create the rhythm, so in prose narrative there are events that rhyme. — Italo Calvino

I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that. — Ray Bradbury

Nowadays, you form your beliefs to fit your behavior, not the other way around. — Judith Martin

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge. — Ludwik Fleck

If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb