Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

If you were casting the part of the evil scientist who would prove the Caped Crusader's deadliest nemesis, you'd likely glance at the headshot of German-born psychiatrist Dr. Fredric Wertham, with his owl-like glasses and severe Prussian features, and think, "Nah, too on-the-nose.

I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real." -Abe Sapien

My heart started racing, not the bad kind of heart racing, like I'm going to die. But the good kind of heart racing, like, Hello, can I help you with something? If not, please step aside because I'm about to kick the shit out of life.

In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities. A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.

Interestingly enough, whenever I cite examples from superhero comic books in a lecture, my students never wonder when they will use this information in their "real life". Apparently they all have plans, post-graduation, that involve protecting the City from all threat while wearing spandex. As a law-abiding citizen, this notion fills me with a great sense of security, knowing as I do how many of my scientist colleagues could charitably be termed "mad".

Nadie vive feliz para siempre, Tom. Si eso pasara, la historia tendría que parar. Porque la historia está sustentada en los esfuerzos y agonías sin fin del héroe. Las vueltas y los giros de una historia parecen un laberinto. Pero en realidad son su opuesto. No hay vueltas erróneas. Sólo un camino a seguir, y un punto final. Cada vez que cerramos un libro, les damos un respiro. Un momento de paz. Un momento, no más que eso. Pero créeme, jovencito...ese momento es lo más cerca que estarás, en toda tu vida, de un final feliz.

People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine

Speaking of boxes... Do you know that thought experiment with the cat in the box with the poison? Theory requires the cat to be both alive and dead until observed. Well, I actually performed the experiment. Dozens of times. The bad news is reality doesn't exist. The good news is we have a new cat graveyard.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine

That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)

The enrichment center would like to announce a new employee initiative of forced voluntary participation. If any Aperture Science employee would like to opt out of this new voluntary testing program, please remember; science rhymes with compliance. Do you know what doesn't rhyme with compliance? Neurotoxin. Due to high mortality rates, you may be reluctant to participate in the new initiative. The enrichtment center assures you this is a strictly selfish impulse on your part, and why can't you love science like [insert co-worker's name here]?

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.

There are few things less comforting than a tiger who's been up too late.

The right idea at the right time is like a dandelion...You may hack it down, but you only spread the seeds abroad.

They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. Bus monsters are people too.

They call us monsters because it makes it easier to hurt us. But monsters are people, too.

Semua makhluk hidup setiap harinya hidup seperti memutar roda keberuntungan.

When all is said and done, there is usually more said than done. [as quoted by Alfred E Neuman]

Who put the S in comic to make cosmic? / The Self, which is the self of all beings - / choosing to disguise from themselves / that everything is just a game. // With a laugh we could turn / from all the seriousness we learned / and connect with every atom to create / breathtaking beauty with graceful ease.

Why would a comediotic guy like Buzz Aldrin worry about who said what first? He was on the %$#@!+-oon!

A comic says funny things. A comedian says things funny.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.

They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book.

An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic.

Although according to certain philosophers it is quite difficult to distinguish the jester from the melancholic, life itself being a comic drama or a dramatic comedy.

Anybody who knows me knows I would never read a comic book. And I certainly would never read anything written by Kevin Smith.

As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living.

As far as talent goes, Marilyn Monroe was so minimally gifted as to be almost unemployable, and anyone who holds to the opinion that she was a great natural comic identifies himself immediately as a dunce.

Bill Hicks wasn't just a comic, he was a crusader against humanity's relentless capacity to underachieve

Chris [Farley] - I would consider him a comic animal. With the emphasis on "animal.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

Bob Saget is the dirtiest comic who's ever lived. Nobody touches him.

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Comedians are always going to be in the showbiz middle class, you're not Brad Pitt; you're never going to be Sam Rockwell or Shia LaBeouf or Leo DiCaprio. You're a comic.

Comic-Con is definitely grown from just being about comics to being about all forms of media.

Comic-Con has been an amazing experience. It's overwhelming, I have to admit, because of the lines and the crowds.