"My first influences were superhero artists."

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Source : "Scott McCloud's 'Zot!' is out of this world". Interview with Patrick Montero, www.nydailynews.com. August 24, 2008.

Scott McCloud

#Artist Quotes #Superhero Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.”

Source : Arthur Frommer, Pauline Frommer (1996). “Arthur Frommer's New World of Travel”, Frommer's
“The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple â€œfirstâ€ things.”

Source : "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, April 15, 2014.
“Our country is now at war and the only way out is forward. I would not change one word I have spoken against war but that is no longer the issue. We must now stand together.”

Source : David Starr Jordan (1922). “The days of a man: being memories of a naturalist, teacher, and minor prophet of democracy”
“The key to success is failureâ€¦ Success is made of 99 percent failure.”
“I've got a really good family; I've got great friends around me.”
“Does it sound outrageous to you that military spending for fiscal year 2000 will be almost $290 billion and all other domestic discretionary spending, such as education, job training, housing, Amtrak, medical research, environment, Head Start and many other worthwhile programs will total $246 billion, the biggest disparity in modern times ?”
“The way of the world is to bloom and to flower and die but in the affairs of men there is no waning and the noon of his expression signals the onset of night. His spirit is exhausted at the peak of its achievement. His meridian is at once his darkening and the evening of his day.”
“One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.”

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