Top 100 Kirby Quotes
#1. My favorite artists from comics were early ones like Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko who had a real heavy ink style. Captain America, co created by Jack Kirby, was a favorite of mine and I sometimes use an altered version of his costume on some of my characters.
Marcel Dzama
#2. You're always trying to do something that, on one hand, honors all those stories, that is still in some way the same character that Stan Lee and Jack Kirby were doing back in the sixties. But, at the same time, you want to be able to tell new stories and not just rehash what's come before.
Jason Aaron
#3. One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry - and that's where problems set in!
John Byrne
#4. I give you real world-changers like Homer, Jack Kirby, and the aforementioned Shakespeare as the archangels of pure story.
Bill Willingham
#5. During the Mavelmania days in the late '60's I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, "Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you're a pretty good inker." That's how it started.
Mike Royer
#6. I learned early Jack Kirby favorite movies were the Warner Brothers from the '30s. When you look at Jack Kirby's comic books, or at least when I do, I can make an instant connection. When he said he loved those movies it was like, "Of course."
Mike Royer
#7. When I finished my initial year at Oxford, I flew home to marry Kirby, who had been my girlfriend in college. We had met on a blind date.
Donald Hall
#8. He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.
Jim Leyland
#9. Maybe it'll stop you trying to be so desperate about making more money than you can ever use? You can't take it with you, Mr. Kirby. So what good is it? As near as I can see, the only thing you can take with you is the love of your friends.
Lionel Barrymore
#10. On behalf of Major League Baseball, I am terribly saddened by the sudden passing of Kirby Puckett. He was a Hall of Famer in every sense of the term. He was revered throughout the country and will be remembered wherever the game is played. Kirby was taken from us much too soon - and too quickly.
Bud Selig
#11. Tragedy and death would follow a person whereever he went in life. There was no such thing as escape, except maybe the kind that Mr. Kirby had accomplished ...
Joyce Maynard
#12. I live in the past when it comes to movies, but my own career is a matter of remembering the nuts and bolts and things like eating chocolate cake and drinking milk with Jack [Kirby] in his kitchen, but that's all I remember.
Mike Royer
#13. I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin.
Mike Royer
#14. JACK KIRBY is also the central personage of this novel because this is not a good novel. This is a seriously mixed-up book with a central personage who never appears. The plot, like life, resolves into nothing and features emotional suffering without meaning.
Jarett Kobek
#15. My most vivid memories of those times weren't the actual nuts and bolts, but just pleasant times sitting with Jack [Kirby] in his studio, going over the pages and looking out the window at my kids playing in his swimming pool .
Mike Royer
#16. In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
Donald Hall
#17. I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what I was gravitating towards.
Tim Fish
#18. Kirby played every day. You feed off of that. When you think of Kirby, you think of motivation. Im definitely going to dedicate this year to him.
Torii Hunter
#19. Her heart was walking around the building with Kirby. And her jacket was still in his car.
Regina Duke
#20. KIRBY: A man can't give up his business.
GRANDPA: Why not? You've got all the money you need. You can't take it with you.
George S. Kaufman
#21. This is a sad day for the Minnesota Twins, Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere. I loved Kirby deeply. A tremendous teammate, Kirby will always be remembered for his never-ending hustle, infectious personality, trademark smile and commitment to the community.
Carl Pohlad
#22. My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
Walter Mosley
#23. My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take it, like it's something they should be supportive about. I just mean that they are two basic facts about me.
Emily Giffin
#24. Tell Jack that after he finishs saving the universe again, he has to take out the trash in the kitchen."
-Rosalind Kirby, one day in 1971
Mark Evanier
#25. If I wanted to own some Jack Kirby original art unless it was something that Giacoia or Sinnott had inked I was too close to it. I didn't want to collect his pages inked by me. Of course 40 years later I'd LOVE to have some of that stuff.
Mike Royer
#26. A story knows no honor. A story knows no allegiance. A story simply is.
Matthew J. Kirby
#27. You know ... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.
Jessi Kirby
#28. It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person.
Jessi Kirby
#29. I am sure that no one coming to this ceremony expected a High Court judge to use the occasion to talk about that four-letter word, love. But that's a good thing. In life, never be predictable. It's so uncool.
Michael Kirby
#30. I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.
Kirby Larson
#31. All our firsts, and our lasts, and everything in between. They swirl and dance on the invisible currents, and then one by one, they disappear to a place they will always be a part of.
Jessi Kirby
#33. A story is not a thing. A story is an act. It only exists in the brief moment of its telling. The question you must ask is what a story has the power to do. The truth of something you do is very different from the truth of something you know.
Matthew J. Kirby
#34. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#35. East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.
William Kirby
#36. I hear that I'm funny, and I think I'm funny, but I go in all the time for multicam, and they say that I'm not big enough, or I'm too big. I'm so confused. Okay, well, I'm funny in real life.
Kirby Bliss Blanton
#37. I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.
Jack Kirby
#38. My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
Jack Kirby
#39. You fought fair. If the other guy wants to fight and you knocked him out, you did your best for him. You didn't want to hurt him any more.
Jack Kirby
#40. I'm a happy man because whatever I'm doing, I do for myself and I do a little creating here and there for others, and they work out very well.
Jack Kirby
#41. Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Matthew J. Kirby
#42. A man is entitled to draw things in his own style. I didn't hurt Superman. I made him powerful. I admire Superman, but I've got to do my own style.
Jack Kirby
#43. I feel like an independent man, and I am. This is the kind of feeling I always wanted. You can rarely get that ... Well, I could rarely get that in the early part of my life.
Jack Kirby
#44. The murderers of the three Bytyqi brothers, New York residents who were executed by Serbian Ministry of Interior personnel in 1999, have never been prosecuted. The U.S. government cannot accept that the murderers of three of its citizens go unpunished.
Michael Kirby
#45. I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.
Kirby Larson
#46. Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound-that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.
Kirby Wright
#47. You can never trust anyone once you've had to trap them in a cage.
Matthew J. Kirby
#48. I opened my mouth to respond, then decided to do that thing where you think before you speak.
Jessi Kirby
#49. I would've liked to have been a better businessman when I was younger. And of course, I couldn't, because it wasn't part of my atmosphere. I never lived with accountants, I never lived with lawyers.
Jack Kirby
#50. It seems to me that the experiences that stay with you, the things you'll always remember, aren't the ones you can force, or go looking for. I've always thought of those things as the ones that somehow find you.
Jessi Kirby
#51. Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.
Seb Kirby
#53. Failure will not overcome me so long as my will to succeed is stronger
Michael Kirby
#54. I had very high respect for the Pratt Institute, but I thought that I had done my best, and that was not their version of the best.
Jack Kirby
#55. It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
Kirby Larson
#56. I have friends, I'm from Texas originally, and they follow me and they keep up with what I'm doing.
Kirby Bliss Blanton
#57. My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics.
Jack Kirby
#58. Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.
Kirby Wright
#59. That is a rare gift, Alexyin, for another person to see every ugliness in you and still be able to find that part of you that they can love, that can love them back.
Kirby Crow
#60. I am the result of a loving upbringing in a peaceful country, with wonderful parents and siblings, a very long-term relationship, stability, support - but a feeling that life isn't always just and that there is injustice for people and we should do something about it.
Michael Kirby
#61. I have been taking some classes in woodworking. It's really helpful just looking at a problem, and having a very tangible way in constructing it.
Luke Kirby
#62. I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.
Kirby Larson
#63. I like 'The Big Lebowski'. The Dude is my man. My brother and I can quote that.
Kirby Bliss Blanton
#64. A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
Jack Kirby
#65. Aw, where we come from the Anti-Life Equation is one of many others
almost as awesome!! But they merely exist!!
Jack Kirby
#66. I can't promise the universe is gonna tell you what to do with your life up there. But if you can keep quiet and listen close enough, for long enough, it may whisper something you need to hear.
Jessi Kirby
#67. Some things need to be said. And sometimes they require strong words.
Jessi Kirby
#68. Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.
Jack Kirby
#69. The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa
Kirby Larson
#70. I knew that meant we were done and that we'd smooth over the surface I'd just tossed a rock into, but even the waves that crash down on the beach start out as tiny ripples, far out at sea.
They just gain strength over time.
Jessi Kirby
#71. Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.
Kirby Larson
#72. That fire you see can't last. Still, as it burns, it lights everything.
David Kirby
#73. I know that evil hides here, but I cannot be the one to uncover it. Neither can any of you. Time will do that for us.
And how I fear that day, for I know that when I look into my betrayer's face, I will see someone I thought I knew. And I will still love them.
Matthew J. Kirby
#74. Every town has its stories. Stories that have been told so many times by so many different people they've worked themselves into the collective consciousness as truth.
Jessi Kirby
#75. He chuckled quietly. "I Didn't claim to have extra-sensory gifts. Based on what I can hear and feel, I can fill in what I can't see." "Do you want to know what I sense?" " Dare I ask?" I smiled, even though I knew he couldn't see it.
Kirby Howell
#76. I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.
Jack Kirby
#77. In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.
Matthew J. Kirby
#78. We found our own synchronicity together, his heart thumping out a slow. steady beat and mine filling in the spaces between
Jessi Kirby
#79. It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.
Kirby Wright
#80. It was his fault too," Fredrick said. "He never really asked her why. It was like he didn't want to know.
Matthew J. Kirby
#81. My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.
Jack Kirby
#82. I haven't stopped thinking about Orion, and it's made a mess of me. Nothing happened between us. Nothing physical, anyway. We never touched, and after a while, we hardly even spoke. But I felt different.
Jessi Kirby
#83. Questions are dangerous territory for us.
Jessi Kirby
#84. Once war consisted of individual combats between armed men. Later it was waged between lines of men in opposing trenches. Now it is organized slaughter of whole populations.
Kirby Page
#85. I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
Jack Kirby
#86. The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
Jack Kirby
#87. Well, before writing became all-consuming, I was a quilter, like Hattie and Perilee. I don't do that anymore, but I do knit, garden and watch the birds in my backyard. I also take lots of walks, do yoga and talk my husband into taking me out to dinner as often as possible.
Kirby Larson
#88. One of my responsibilities is to make sure that justice is done for our citizens ... I want this case to be completed. Until that happens, it will continue to burden our relationship.
Michael Kirby
#89. I would hope we would begin a series of projects that would do more to bring the different parts of the university together in the study of Asia, for example, in the study of the professions in Asia.
William Kirby
#91. My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.
Kirby Wright
#92. Good quote it takes five positive statements to overcome one statement
Bill Kirby
#93. There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.
Kirby Dick
#94. Of course, mothers were very conventional, everything was very conventional. You had to have approval.
Jack Kirby
#95. You saw what I saw, right? Adrienne doing something nice for Xarissa of her own free will.
I think I did, said G.A
Lunette stared into the unknown. This has to be a sign of the coming apocalypse We are all going to die.
Emily Kirby
#96. Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
Jack Kirby
#97. I was a good student in the subjects that I wanted to be good in. The curriculum in my section was excellent.
Jack Kirby
#98. She has no idea how careless I've already been, or that I know that heart of his maybe even better than he does.
Jessi Kirby
#99. I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.
Kirby Puckett
#100. And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.
William Kirby
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