Top 49 Craig Thompson Quotes
#1. You know, sometimes you look at me with longing ...
... even though I'm here with you.
Craig Thompson
#4. In the presence of my muse, I no longer NEEDED to draw.
Craig Thompson
#5. I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.
Craig Thompson
#6. We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?
Craig Thompson
#7. I'm still down with Jesus. I like to think of him mostly as a social revolutionary who mixed with bad crowds and hated the rich.
Craig Thompson
#8. Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
Craig Thompson
#10. I'm really interested in making a mark on a paper and letting that be cursive shorthand for an idea - that's the origin of cartooning.
Craig Thompson
#11. I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
Craig Thompson
#12. How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
Craig Thompson
#13. Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
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#14. And that's my comfort
that someone else was there and experienced the same thing. How else could I know it was real and not merely a dream?
Craig Thompson
#16. I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time.
Craig Thompson
#17. Christianity and Islam, they have the same morals, same lifestyle, some of the same stories that shaped them.
Craig Thompson
#18. My dad was a plumber, and my mom was on and off again, either a stay-at-home mom or working with the disabled as a visiting-nurse assistant.
Craig Thompson
#19. The state of your psyche is reflected in your body.
Craig Thompson
#20. But really I wanted to burn these childhood artifacts, because the lines -meant for escape- served as a reminder instead. I wanted to burn my memories.
Craig Thompson
#21. And yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together ... for a time.
Craig Thompson
#22. It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.
Craig Thompson
#23. For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?
Craig Thompson
#24. I think with 'Chunky Rice,' it felt novel to me to give this emo twist on these funny animals.
Craig Thompson
#25. At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.
Craig Thompson
#26. Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together.
Craig Thompson
#27. I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world
an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.
Craig Thompson
#28. Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
Craig Thompson
#29. I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.
Craig Thompson
#30. Pressed against her I can hear eternity
hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".
Craig Thompson
#31. Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
Craig Thompson
#32. I still believe in God; the teachings of Jesus even, but the rest of Christianity ... its Bible, its churches, its dogma
only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being HUMAN, and it ignores all these GAPS that need to be filled in by the individual.
Craig Thompson
#33. I was grateful for cereal
the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
Craig Thompson
#34. The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.
Craig Thompson
#36. See Eric J. Arnould and Craig J. Thompson "Consumer Culture Theory (CCT): Twenty Years of Research," Journal of Consumer Research, 31 (2005).
Douglas Holt
#37. In 2005, I did a lot on 'Habibi' and a lot of business stuff. I got an agent that year.
Craig Thompson
#38. What does the breathtaking view of the ocean mean without you?
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#39. You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.
Craig Thompson
#40. I had this desire to understand Islam better and then focus on the beauty of Arabic and Islamic cultures. And one of the first things to emerge was Arabic calligraphy, which was instantly inspiring.
Craig Thompson
#41. On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free.
I gorged myself until my tummy ached.
Craig Thompson
#42. Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.
Craig Thompson
#43. And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold.
Craig Thompson
#44. Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.
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#45. Now the birds & trees & the moroccan kitties are my muse.
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#46. After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.
Craig Thompson
#48. I grew up in a very working-class family and also a very fundamentalist Christian family. So, we didn't have access to the arts in the house in any form other than the Sunday funnies.
Craig Thompson
#49. The Sufi saint Rabi'a Al-Adawiyya was seen carrying a firebrand and a jug of water - the firebrand to burn Paradise, the jug of water to drown Hell ...
So that both veils disappear, and God's followers worship, not out of hope for reward, nor fear of punishment, but out of love.
Craig Thompson
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