Satrapi Cartoonist Quotes & Sayings

If you heart had a voice, Beloved, what would it say? — Iyanla Vanzant

There are two types of sufferers — Louis Mackey

The difficulty of living alone is that any mess he makes he is forced to clean up himself.
No, the real difficulty of living alone is that no one cares if you are upset. — Gabrielle Zevin

You can't build a society purely on interests, you need a sense of belonging — Valery Giscard D'Estaing

I took a photo of us, mid-embrace. When I am old and alone I will remember that I once held something truly beautiful. — Joe Dunthorne

The first time I was given money to shop for myself, I was 13 and staying with my godmother in New York. I went to Clinique and bought the three-step acne programme and felt so grown-up. — Trinny Woodall

Are there are fireflies on the West Coast? I never saw any when I lived in California. — Ben Lerner

The world never burned a casual Christian at the stake. — John R. Rice

it is always best to choose a task that is slightly above you, one that might be considered ambitious on your part. This is a corollary of the Law of the Creative Dynamic - the higher the goal, the more energy you will call up from deep within. You will rise to the challenge because you have to, and will discover creative powers in yourself that you never suspected. — Robert Greene

One of the failures of cellular communication is that tiredness often comes across as sadness. — Rachel Cohn

I am everyone's friend,'I said.'Except to my enemies. — Anthony Burgess

How can you come to understand your life when even the beginning is so complicated: a single cell imprinted with the color of your eyes and the shape of your face the pattern on your palm and the moods that will shadow you through your life. How can you be alive when every choice you make breaks the world into a thousand filaments each careless step branching into long tributaries of alternate lives shuddering outward and outward like sheet lightning. — Dan Chaon

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics ... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it. — Marjane Satrapi