I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.
I haven't ever found any great writing on that wonderful and often unappreciated art form, the insult.
I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song.
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
Since most American students cannot simply pay their full tuition out of pocket, financing a college education often takes the form of loans, both private and from the government.
News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose.
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.
It is not safe in the republican form of government that clannishness should exist either by compulsory or voluntary reason. It is not good for the government and it is not good for the individual.
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it... try to fake three laughs in an hour - ha ha ha ha ha - they'll take you away, man. You can't.
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
His music was direct from his heart and brain in the purest form possible.
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
It's estimated that there may be two hundred and fifty million children in the world engaged in some form of exploitative child labour.
Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
Success, in whatever form it takes, is a tricky thing - once you've achieved your goal, then what? Where do you aim?
My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.
The obituaries shot up to the top of my list when I discovered Robert McG. Thomas, the 'Times' obit writer who redesigned its traditional form and added a measure of stylistic elegance.
I'd love to thwart the Census form, but I want a constitutional basis for doing it - and here's the tricky thing. I think even constitutional purists would tell you that just because something isn't in the Constitution does not mean the government cannot do it.
The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good at it.
My biggest thing is that I would love in some form or fashion to return to the 'Marvel' universe, whether in television or a feature. I love the people at 'Marvel' and grew up reading the characters, and it was a real dream come true getting to play with the toys.
Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the countenance.
My job is to form the people, the story, the sentences. Every reader will bring their own life and their own history to the story and shape it accordingly. I guess you can say it's like I am sending them a letter.
As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction.
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
