"Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what we wanted; the only problem was that we had a deadline."

-- Joe Shuster

#Problem Quotes #Slam Quotes #Restriction Quotes

“When I really want to be soothed and reminded of why people bother to fiddle with sentences, I often read poetry.”
“Love isn't what I have the opportunity to get from this world. Love is what I have the opportunity to give.”
“The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by emotions left and right, whether arising from sexuality or resulting from his necessary encounters with authority - this hero is a blessing, a relief and a release. The world he lives in, where feelings are totally under control, looks to the adolescent boy like heaven! This hero's lack of feeling - like Star Trek's Spock - is what allows him to be a genius, or allows him to shoot the bad guys and/or aliens, without a quiver to his lip.”
“The greatest results in life are usually attained by simple means and the exercise of ordinary qualities. These may for the most part be summed up in these two - common sense and perseverance.”
“Don't be ashamed of being a woman and don't be ashamed to be an accomplished woman.”
“Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.”
“It is not the object described that matters, but the light that falls on it.”

Source : Christopher Barnes, Christopher J. Barnes, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak (2004). “Boris Pasternak: A Literary Biography”, p.363, Cambridge University Press
“I love French style from the Thirties and Forties. French movie stars like Jean Gabin and Yves Montand had so much natural, effortless style.”

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