Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.

People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

The comic book world is a tough business.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

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The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it.

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position and it's funny.

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights.

What before seemed a...frustrating wall, the comic deftly and fearlessly steps through, proving the absurdity of it all.

When I was very young, I didn't really write my own material. I just memorized other peoples' jokes. Established comics, like Stanley Myron Handelman and people like that. And then, for every comic, you develop your own style after a while.

When you're onstage with Chris Rock, anything can happen. He is one of the greatest comic geniuses we've ever seen.

Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.