Comic Quotes

• My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.

  Nora Ephron

  Mom, Mother, Tragedy

  FaceBook post by Nora Ephron from Oct 30, 2011

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• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

  Elvis Presley

  Movie, Dream, Believe

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• When I was a child, ladies and gentlemen, I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I ever dreamed, has come true a hundred times... I learned very early in life that "Without a song, the day would never end; without a song, a man ain't got a friend; without a song, the road would never bend - without a song." So I keep singing a song. Goodnight. Thank you.

  Elvis Presley

  Inspirational, Movie, Dream

  Elvis Presley's acceptance speech for the 1970 Ten Outstanding Young Men of the Nation Award (January 16, 1971); later quoted in Jerry Osborne "Elvis - Word for Word: What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (p. 188), August 1999.

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• If you must make a noise, make it quietly.

  Oliver Hardy

  Funny, Humorous, Noise

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• I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

  Maria Menounos

  Book, Comic Book, Marvel Comics

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

  Elvis Presley

  Movie, Dream, Children

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• We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

  William Gaddis

  William Gaddis (1955). “The Recognitions: A Novel”, Harcourt

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• In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Witty, Firsts

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.

  Socrates

  Happiness, Laughter, Lying

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• The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

  Thornton Wilder

  Funny, Humor, Order

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.15, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

  Jim Carrey

  House, Would Be, Sitting

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• I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

  Bill Watterson

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Christmas, Girl

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• Sometimes you lie in bed at night, and you don't have a single thing to worry about...That always worries me!

  Charles M. Schulz

  Funny, Single, Lying

  "Fictional character: Charlie Brown". "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, July 6, 1985.

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• Never draw anything you can copy, never copy anything you can trace, never trace anything you can cut out and paste up.

  Wally Wood

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

  Jo Brand

  Singing, Trying, Relief

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• Hrithik is the go-to guy for queries related to diet. He is great with expressions and is funny in real life. I wonder why someone hasn't cast him in a comic role yet.

  Farhan Akhtar

  Real, Expression, Guy

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• If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.

  Christoph Waltz

  Book, Ignorance, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

  Josh Brolin

  Book, Stuff, Knows

  "Josh Brolin On Set Interview JONAH HEX – Read or Listen Here" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. May 13, 2010.

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• Life is deeply tragic and also very comic at the same time. It's everything at once.

  Paul Auster

  Life Is, Tragic

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

  Voltaire

  Destiny, Law, People

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• I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.

  Mickey Spillane

  Hammers, Literature, Danger

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

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• It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

  William Congreve

  Business, Kindness, Vices

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) epistle dedicatory

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• Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

  Mickey Spillane

  Book, Writing, America

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• I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax

  Larry King

  Relax, Relief, Messages

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