Famous Quotes
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"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"When you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?"
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
Quote by -J. D. Salinger
"People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase."
Quote by -Ja Rule
"The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"There are people that I didn't like, but I saw them suffer and it changed me. I promised myself that I would never tell a lie, never hurt another human being, and I would try to make the world as positive as I could."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"Everybody can draw, in my estimation. If you give a man 50 years, he'll come up with the Mona Lisa."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others--almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!"
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"There was violence because first of all, there were ethnic differences and names. If you were small, they called you a runt, and you had to do something about that even if there were five other guys."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"In the Army when we had judo classes, out of the class of 27 just me and another guy graduated. I grew to enjoy it because I knew I could do it well. I tried to do everything well."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I didn't like Army life. I didn't like taking orders. I didn't like discipline. I didn't like being yelled at. You'd get 10 years for punching a sergeant so I couldn't punch a sergeant."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I wasn't the kind of student that Pratt was looking for. They wanted patient people who would work on something forever. I didn't want to work on any project forever. I intended to get things done."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"If you think a man draws the type of hands that you want to draw, steal ‘em. Take those hands."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad."
Quote by -Jack Kirby
"I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that."
Quote by -Jack Kirby