Gregory > Gregory's Quotes

“That was when it was all made painfully clear to me. When you are a child, there is joy. There is laughter. And most of all, there is trust. Trust in your fellows. When you are an adult...then comes suspicion, hatred, and fear. If children ran the world, it would be a place of eternal bliss and cheer. Adults run the world; and there is war, and enmity, and destruction unending. Adults who take charge of things muck them up, and then produce a new generation of children and say, "The children are the hope of the future." And they are right. Children are the hope of the future. But adults are the damnation of the present, and children become adults as surely as adults become worm food.
Adults are the death of hope.”
― Peter David, Tigerheart

“Truth usually makes no sense. If your desire is for everything to make perfect sense, then you should take refuge in fiction. In fiction, all threads tie together in a neat bow and everything moves smoothly from one point to the next to the next. In real life, though... nothing makes sense. Bad things happen to good people. The pious die young while the wicked live until old age. War, famine, pestilence, death all occur randomly and senselessly and leave us more often than not scratching our heads and hurling the question 'why?' into a void that provides no answers.”
― Peter David, Tigerheart

“If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.”
― Peter David, Q-in-Law

“To the brave crew and passengers of the Kobayshi Maru…sucks to be you.”
― Peter David, Stone and Anvil

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Please don't be dead. Because then I'd have to be the Sorcerer Supreme and there's no way I could rock the 'stache.”
― Brian Michael Bendis, The New Avengers, Vol. 3

“The second we put a bullet in the head of one of those undead monsters -- the moment one of us drove a hammer into one of their faces -- or cut a head off. We became what we are! And that's just it. THAT's what it comes down to. You people don't know what we are.

We're surrounded by the DEAD. We're among them -- and when we finally give up we become them! We're living on borrowed time here. Every minute of our life is a minute we steal from them! You see them out there. You KNOW that when we die -- we become them. You think we hide behind walls to protect us from the walking dead?

Don't you get it? We ARE the walking dead! WE are the walking dead.”
― Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Vol. 5: The Best Defense

“Deep down, Clark's essentially a good person... and deep down, I'm not”
― Jeph Loeb, Batman: Hush, Vol. 1

“Jesus, man. Why do people want to be Paris Hilton and nobody wants to be Spider-Man?”
― Mark Millar, Kick-Ass

“I offered them Utopia, but they fought for the right to live in Hell.”
― Mark Millar, Superman: Red Son

“It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.”
― Mark Millar, Kick-Ass

“I'm not young enough to know everything.”
― J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Seven Steps to Success
1) Make a commitment to grow daily.
2) Value the process more than events.
3) Don't wait for inspiration.
4) Be willing to sacrifice pleasure for opportunity.
5) Dream big.
6) Plan your priorities.
7) Give up to go up.”
― John C Maxwell

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“Every weakness contains within itself a strength.”
― Shusaku Endo

“Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck.”
― Joss Whedon

“To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of us always give the devil his due.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists

“I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane