Scott Mills > Scott's Quotes

“I offer you a fable for our times...
A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it.
If you opened this box and looked down into it...
...How could you ever possibly look up again?
- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow)”
― Rob Williams

“Midnighter: I told you this wasn't going to end well...
Bendix: ...but...I did what you...what the Authority...never could...fixed earth... Midnighter: No. You just gave them peace through corporate control and ignorance... through mindless consumerism.
Bendix: Bulls*%t! The air is clean...no wars...people are happier...you can't deny...it's a finer world.”
― Ed Brubaker, The Authority: Revolution, Vol. 2

“But what the hell do I know? I'm an agnostic episcopalian with a day pass to a Hindu heaven.”
― Neil Gaiman

“There is no us, and you know that as well as I do. There can’t be. This is just a dream we’re having. While all our friends sleep.”
― Ed Brubaker, Deadenders

“Ray: What else did they get rid of, truth, justice and the American way?
Leto jr.: Nah, truth ended when they shot M.L.K.. The American way died over in Vietnam.
Mitch: And Justice?
Leto jr.: Shit, man, there’s no justice.... There’s just us.”
― Brian K. Vaughan, Ex Machina, Vol. 2: Tag

“Captain America: Damn you, you fool! Hasn’t there been enough death today?
Colonel Karpov: You do not understand...you cannot. You and the Germans, you have your super-soldiers...your secret weapons...But we Russians...we have nothing but our winter.”
― Ed Brubaker

“Your date might be a psychotic sorceress from a dimension ruled by chaos-- doesn't mean she's not a nice person”
― Nick Spencer

“I once burned block-wide curse words into the streets of new york and declared cosmic jihad on the people of earth”
― Jason Aaron, Wolverine by Jason Aaron Omnibus, Vol. 1

“I've traversed countless different dimensions and parallel realities and i've yet to encounter a single problem that couldn't be solved with a series of well-placed bullets”
― Jason Aaron, Wolverine by Jason Aaron Omnibus, Vol. 1

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”
― Joseph Addison

“Superheroes. Supervillains. It's all self-propagating kid stuff. A chance for grown men to put their underwear on outside of their tights”
― James Robinson, The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 1

“Fear can cause blindness...we were already blind the moment we turned blind, fear struck us blind, fear will keep us blind”
― José Saramago, Blindness

“I can write a short story in six words. For sale: baby shoes, never used”
― Ernest Hemingway

“For he loved her, as you can only love someone who is an echo of yourself at your time of deepest sorrow”
― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead

“You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

“But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. Because there are somethings you can't go through in life and become friends, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them.”
― J.K. Rowling

“Today is gone. Today was fun.
Tomorrow is another one.
Every day,
from here to there,
funny things are everywhere.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Then what you will be privileged to witness will not be an interrogation, but an act of salesmanship as silver-tongued and thieving as ever moved used cars, Florida swamp land or bibles. For what I am selling is a long prison term to a client who has no genuine use for the product.”
― Lt. Frank Pembleton

“I'm saying you got a darkness, you, Tim Bayliss, you got a darkness inside of you. You gotta know the darker, uglier sides of yourself. You gotta recognize them, so that they're not constantly sneaking up on you. You gotta LOVE 'EM, 'cause they're part of you, because along with your virtues, they make you who you are. Virtue isn't virtue unless it slams up against vice. So consequently, your virtue's not real virtue. Until it's been tested. . . tempted.”
― Lt. Frank Pembleton

“If a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, then a family is more like a rope.
We're lots of fragile little strands, and we survive by becoming hopelessly intertwined with each other.
The happiest families I ever met were all frayed...but they were also tighter than a hangmen's noose.
- Hazel, Saga # 40”
― Brian K. Vaughan

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

“Reader's Bill of Rights

1. The right to not read

2. The right to skip pages

3. The right to not finish

4. The right to reread

5. The right to read anything

6. The right to escapism

7. The right to read anywhere

8. The right to browse

9. The right to read out loud

10. The right to not defend your tastes”
― Daniel Pennac

“I try not to speak to critics. It only encourages them.
-Snagglepuss”
― Mark Russell

“The world is on fire, young man. As writers, it is only proper that we do what we can to warn people.
But in telling the truth to the world, don't lie to yourself. Write whatever you want. Tell the truth.
Just don't imagine that you are changing anything.
Like I said, people just want to have a good time.

-Snagglepuss”
― Mark Russell

“Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win...
...you fight them merely because they need to be fought.

-Snagglepuss”
― Mark Russell