Comics Quotes (page 7)
![Guillermo del Toro quote: "video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium..."](/pic/343889/600x316/quotation-guillermo-del-toro-video-games-are-the-comic-books-of-our.jpg)
So then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. "It isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible sharp eye for what makes you so."Oh but you're just as bad yourself. You can't resist me when I point that out."She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. "I can't indeed resist you."Then there we are!" said Strether.
Henry James
![Joss Whedon quote: "Men who are comfortable with powerful women are more powerful..."](/pic/341069/600x316/quotation-joss-whedon-men-who-are-comfortable-with-powerful-women-are.jpg)
![Anne Frank quote: "I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere..."](/pic/339362/600x316/quotation-anne-frank-i-am-what-a-romantic-movie-is-to-a-profound-thinker.jpg)
![Bill Watterson quote: "I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first..."](/pic/334638/600x316/quotation-bill-watterson-i-hope-some-historian-will-confirm-that-i-was.jpg)
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts.
Jonathan Franzen
![Patton Oswalt quote: "Comedy and terror and autobiography and comics and..."](/pic/333559/600x316/quotation-patton-oswalt-comedy-and-terror-and-autobiography-and-comics.jpg)
![Julio Cortazar quote: "Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a..."](/pic/330697/600x316/quotation-julio-cortazar-nothing-is-more-comical-than-seriousness.jpg)
[Jos] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile? he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive.
Harold Bloom
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . .
Wallace Stegner