Azzarello Quotes

#1. It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

William Cobbett

#2. Joker: I don't mind you saying that, Johnny. Sometimes, I need to hear the obvious... now is not one of those times, though.

Brian Azzarello

#3. Work is, after all, not a busy running back and forth in established grooves, though that is the essence of our modern business and academic life, but the supreme energy and disciplined curiosity required to cut new grooves.

Hugh Nibley

#4. I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.

Charles Horton Cooley

#5. Unfortunately, fur is still flying off the racks. It's a billion dollar industry.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#6. Passive...Aggressive...Pussy.

Brian Azzarello

#7. Keep your right up or there'll be nothing left of you." - 100 Bullets

I love this quote because it has double meaning.

Brian Azzarello

#8. The independent project, in a general way, requests a constant work to spread, in the traditional way and in the alternative circuit. It is a fight ... but I believe that it is the way.

Katya Chamma

#9. Loop, you shot him in the head... Fuck yeah he dead.

Brian Azzarello

#10. Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer.

Denis Lavant

#11. You know what happens when you ask too many questions, Dizzy? Someone will ultimately tell you to shut the fuck up. (Mr. Branch)

Brian Azzarello

#12. You can forget ya keys or ya wallet, the first girl ya kissed, hell- even my birthday, but you'll never forget me.

Brian Azzarello

#13. After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.

Brian Azzarello

#14. You wear your shame like a badge, because you don't have the balls to actually pin one on.

Brian Azzarello

#15. And that to me is something. Coming to an understanding of who you are in the midst of discovering who you aren't.

Brian Azzarello

#16. He who regards the world as he does the fortune of his own body can govern the world. He who loves the world as he does his own body can be entrusted with the world.

Laozi

#17. If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

Stephen Leacock

#18. The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It didn't really hit me how important it was until I drew a scene early-on in the book that featured Superman crossing paths with a giant, intergalactic space armada.

Jim Lee

#19. I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.

Ben Aaronovitch

#20. The trouble with "now" is that no matter how much you wish it would, it doesn't last forever. But then... other than a grudge...what does?

Brian Azzarello

#21. Everyone knows that in Hollywood, when you're hot, you've got to run with it. Because eventually they kick you out.

Evan Goldberg

#22. The entire piece has been devised with the French in mind. In France, fornication in the streets with total strangers is *compulsory*.

John Wilmot

#23. I think that more than the winning, the weeks where I don't play well are what drive me the most.

Tom Lehman

#24. Sex, greed, debauchery - I love it. Brian Azzarello is brilliant.

Joseph Finder