Phil Foglio famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her--and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.
-- Phil Foglio

#Hero #Son #Upset
If we had to go live action, I'd hold out for Tim Burton to direct.
-- Phil Foglio

#Action #Direct
One of the characteristics I cherish in my friends is their childlike gullibility, and several excited minutes were spent trying to actually find this book.
-- Phil Foglio

#Book #Trying #Excited
My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.
-- Phil Foglio

#Character #Fighting #Hands
I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.
-- Phil Foglio

#Games #Stuff #Busy
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
-- Phil Foglio

#School #Math #Thinking
As it happened, I had a friend who was a good person who liked to present himself as a dreadful one. Using him as a role model, I created the first Buck Godot strip.
-- Phil Foglio

#Role Models #Roles #Bucks
Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. â€œThe only time you donâ€™t tell me something is when you think itâ€™s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.â€ She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. â€œAnd then,â€ she said sadly, â€œI have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell meâ€”
-- Phil Foglio

#Thinking #Hands #Iron
Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.
-- Phil Foglio

#Hats #Plans
Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.
-- Phil Foglio

#Sex #Nice #Writing

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