Kate Beaton Quotes

#1. Nothing funny about happy people. I don't know, you just look at a situation or a life, and you can kind of pick up the areas of conflict and delve in there, because that's where the most story is. If someone's happily married for 20 years, that's great, but it's not that funny.

Kate Beaton

#2. If I only get to play Malaysian roles, there wouldn't be very many roles for me to play.

Michelle Yeoh

#3. I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes
those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped.

Kate Beaton

#5. Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.

Zach Wamp

#6. Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again ... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet ... ?

Hiroko Sakai

#7. I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

Sean Penn

#8. Life is fucking long, especially if you're stupid.

Justin Halpern

#9. The sitting room is subdued, symmetrical; it's one of the shapes money takes when it freezes. Money has trickled through this room for years and years, as if through an underground cavern, crusting and hardening like stalactites into these forms.

Margaret Atwood

#10. A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

Kate Beaton

#11. I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.

Kate Beaton

#12. 23 Yet he commanded the skies above and p opened the doors of heaven, 24 and he q rained down on them manna to eat and gave them r the grain of heaven. 25 Man ate of the bread of s the angels; he sent them food t in

Anonymous

#13. The world is not what it is supposed to be. We are tragically off course.

Bryant McGill

#14. Blasted spam pigeons!

Kate Beaton

#15. I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance.

Kate Beaton

#16. I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

Muhammad Ali

#17. Working at home is hard. It tends to give you bad habits. It feels more like you're going to work when you get up in the morning and leave your house and go somewhere.

Kate Beaton

#18. I'd basically described myself: a quiet, studious bookworm who would go to bed at a decent hour. A non-partier who wouldn't bring a parade of boys through our room, or make it the floor headquarters for beer pong.

Tammara Webber

#19. Like was not about getting what you wanted, it was about living with what you needed

R.K. Lilley

#20. I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.

Kate Beaton