John Allison Quotes

#1. I'm really interested in how people feel out new friendships, and at the start of college, that's really important.

John Allison

#2. Secondly, not only have we put additional agents on counterterrorism, but we've also built up our analytical structure so that we're better positioned to analyze the information we have.

Robert Mueller

#3. Boy, was I relieved! My best friend wasn't a robber after all. "SURE!" we shouted. Sometimes when we share the horrible truth, we become closer friends.

Suzy Kline

#4. Mr Bough has 'surprise picnic' written all over him.

John Allison

#5. As a kid, I went from reading kids' books to reading science fiction to reading, you know, adult fiction. There was never any gap. YA was a thing when I was a teenager, but it was a library category, not a marketing category, and you never really felt like it was a huge section.

John Allison

#6. We've taken SMS technology for consumers and improved it.

Jan Koum

#7. As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.

John Allison

#8. Roman Polanski is one of my favorite filmmakers, and John Phillips one of my favorite songwriters. I had the honor to meet each of these men and was almost giddy to be blessed with the chance to tell each artist what his work meant has to me.

Allison Anders

#9. I suppose I am one: an activist - for animals and a vegan lifestyle. I hear that word, however, and look around to see if someone is indeed referring to me.

Victoria Moran

#10. In dividing the light, things are seen. And we notice ourselves.

John Allison

#11. A moth is just a butterfly in love with the moon... So sad that their love can never be that he forgot how to be BEAUTIFUL.

John Allison

#12. I think I've changed my business strategy every year since 2003. You have to be watching the horizon constantly. The rug has been pulled out from under our feet so many times.

John Allison

#13. Careers are not all up, up, up; do good work, continue to grow as an artist, and opportunity finds you. I have no sour grapes.

John Allison

#14. Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.

John Allison

#15. I probably hung on for a couple of years too long on 'Scary Go Round.' I knew I had lost some of my enthusiasm for the characters and the setup, but I wasn't sure what to do next.

John Allison

#16. Forever's just a word.

Ryan Manley

#17. We witness in two ways: by life and by word ... God's purpose . , after we have been converted is that we be witnesses to His saving grace and power. We are to be commandoes for Christ. We are to be minute-men for Him.

Billy Graham

#18. Go! And remember! Zebra is fine creature to admire, but you do not have to ride it.

John Allison

#19. Poetry for me is a result of lyrical meditation, pre-verbal in origin, and much of the craft has to do with finding a contemporary diction that embodies, at times subverts but never betrays that pre-verbal lyrical source: the presence of song before it is sung.

John Allison

#20. So this is what love is.
It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.

John Allison

#21. I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My second album was named after my mom because I felt like I learned all my creative talents I learned from her.

M.I.A.

#22. Between the three of us," she said, gesturing to her daughters, "we could probably take them all out."
I winced. "You mean, kill them."
"No, take them all out for ice cream.

Rachel Hawkins

#23. (Basel Accords) to set capital ratios. Under these guidelines, the

John A. Allison

#24. I like my male characters as much my female characters, but I always seem to have less for them to say.

John Allison

#25. My business is the art of balancing the need to make money with the desire to create.

John Allison

#26. To be honest, and this is terrible to admit, I hardly read any teen mystery books at all.

John Allison

#27. Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Saadi

#28. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something about the world.

Umberto Eco

#29. I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.

Hannibal Buress

#30. I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Kahlil Gibran

#31. My comics have changed so much over the years, in the writing, in art style, sometimes incrementally, sometimes quite suddenly. So I've cultivated an audience who will go along with me because they trust me.

John Allison

#32. I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!

John Allison

#33. Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?" He said.
NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW.
"Which bit?"
THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOU BEING BORN AND YOU DYING. NO THIS ... MR. TULIP, THIS IS YOUR WHOLE LIFE AS IT PASSED BEFORE OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES ...

Terry Pratchett

#34. Wow. Listen. Just kiss both kinds of face. Maybe you'll enjoy them equally. That's fine. Let love rule. It's the nineties. Get used to it.

John Allison

#35. Women are more complicated communicators than men, who have a tendency to pronounce and bloviate, and that makes for better writing in talky work.

John Allison

#36. I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters.

John Allison

#37. Cars are a fairly unpleasant thing to have to draw.

John Allison

#38. Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.

John Mayall

#39. In many guilds artisans struck for higher pay and shorter hours. In an age when social conditions were regarded as fixed, such action was revolutionary.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#40. I'll play all five positions if my team needs me to.

Kevin Durant

#41. John Bond has blackened my name with his insinuations about the private lives of football managers. Both my wives are upset.

Malcolm Allison