Shortcomings By Adrian Tomine Quotes & Sayings

When I heard that the bees were in trouble, the fact that they're disappearing and not coming back to the hive, which is a big issue, since a third of the food we eat comes from plants, I figured you couldn't tell the story of the bees without the story of the flowers and how they basically have evolved together for over 150 years. — Louie Schwartzberg

I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool. — Gore Vidal

I can't tell the difference between unlucky and unskilled because the results are the same, — Michael V. Hayden

There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world. — Adrian Tomine

Darkness is a lot of what art is and certainly in our community a lot of it is people sort of wrestling with their demons. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Being born with power, as a boy, doesn't necessarily spur innovation. But being born entirely without it forces innovation in women, who must learn to survive almost from the moment they are born. Afghan women do not need much well-intentioned training on that. — Jenny Nordberg

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am. — Adrian Tomine

I'm death obsessed. You know, I have death all over my house. I have a stuffed two headed sheep! — Kirk Hammett

Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. — Wendy Mass

Some dreams are meant to be handed over to God. To be remolded and redirected in keeping with his will. Sometimes our plans do not fit with the plans of God. Linux helped ... — Janette Oke

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything. — Matthew Perry