Quote Archive for: Mar 13, 2001 to Mar 24, 2001
Children are a perpetual, self-renewing underclass, helpless to escape from the decisions of adults until they become adults themselves.
-Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
In comics, images are generally impressionistic. Usually, they are rendered with economy in order to facilitate their usefulness as a language. Because experience precedes analysis, the intellectual digestive process is accelerated by the imagery provided by comics.
-Will Eisner, Graphic Storytelling
Goddess worship, feminine values, and women's power depend on the ubiquity of the image. God worship, masculine values, and men's domination of women are bound to the written word. Word and image, like masculine and feminine, are complimentary opposites.
-Leonard Shlain, in The Alphabet Versus The Goddess
'Tis better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln
You are a republic of voices tonight. Unfortunately, that republic is Italy.
-Jay McInerney, from Bright Lights, Big City
While the rules for proper female behavior aren't clearly stated, the punishment for breaking them is harsh.
-Mary Pipher, Ph.D., in Reviving Ophelia
Realism and the art of characture might seem strange bedfellows, but comics artists who employ the art of exaggeration often succeed at capturing the wide variety of real world human appearances in a way many more restained and 'serious' creators do not.
-Scott McCloud, Reinventing Comics
Father, I must speak. I can be silent no longer. All day long you muttered to yourself, gibbered, moaned and beat your head against the wall, yelling "I want to die." Now you may say I'm leaping to conclusons, but you're not completely happy, are you?
-Kate from Black Adder the 2nd