American Splendor Quotes

#1. I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I wanted to expand them beyond superheroes and talking animals. And I knew that was going to take a long time. But I just started writing an autobiography about my quotidian life.

Harvey Pekar

#2. I came up with American Splendor. Some people think it's American Squalor.

Harvey Pekar

#3. I would do 'American Splendor' and 'About Schmidt' again in a heartbeat.

Hope Davis

#4. I've done all kinds of movies, but I wanna do some more independent films that are not your run-of-the-mill type movies like 'American Splendor', which I had a big part in, that are really trying to do something unique.

Judah Friedlander

#5. American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

Harvey Pekar

#6. In general, the heart seems to have a more reliable memory for what benefits the psyche than does the head, which has a rather unhealthy tendeny to lead an 'abstract' existence, and easily forgets that its consciousness is snuffed out the moment the heart fails its duty.

C. G. Jung

#7. real key to motivation is in the timing of exactly when players anticipate and receive rewards.

Anonymous

#8. Every blessing is a challenge to work.

Sunday Adelaja

#9. What kind of a day was it? A day like all others, that alters and illuminates our times. And you were there.

Harvey Pekar

#10. The Earth dark and quiet, the way it was before we showed up to fill it with noise and light. Something ends. Something new begins. This was the in-between time. The pause.

Rick Yancey

#11. Logic kills. Faith burns. Better to be the one with the torch than the one on the pyre.

Chris Galford

#12. From far away, on a clear day, she saw how all those mighty mansions were only temporary delusions, and how fashion would march on, and the chateaus and palazzos of American merchants would fall to the wrecking ball so that department stores might rise above.

Anna Godbersen

#13. Faith that is sure of itself is not faith; faith that is sure of God is the only faith there is.

Oswald Chambers

#14. The American Beauty Rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. This is not an evil tendency in business. It is merely the working-out of a law of nature and a law of God.

John D. Rockefeller