Top 100 Kirby's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. There's motion, like taking action or moving forward. There's evolution-that's growing or changing with life. And then there's illumination, which is understanding or knowing.
Jessi Kirby
#4. If you're a thorough professional, and they won't let you do a professional job, nobody's going to benefit from it. The people who produce it won't benefit. The people who buy it won't benefit from it. They're going to get a half-assed product.
Jack Kirby
#5. Everyone wants the people to end up together in the end. It's human nature. The funny thing is, you always know they're going to. You just never know how.
Jessi Kirby
#6. Jesus and the Kingdom of God are distinct but inseparable. It is Jesus, the King of God's Kingdom, who defines the Kingdom and demonstrates its principles and its power.
Kirby Clements Senior
#7. It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
Jack Kirby
#8. He always told me to look strong even if I didn't feel it, because sometimes that's all you can do.
Jessi Kirby
#9. I'm not going over there. Not going. Not going. Yeah, it's not working. I do want to go. A few minutes later, my feet are walking. I tell them to stop, but they don't listen.
Kirby Quinlan
#10. If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.
Jack Kirby
#11. I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.
Jack Kirby
#12. Hon, when someone's a true friend, there's no need to miss 'em." She patted her chest. "'Cause they're always right here.
Kirby Larson
#13. You're going to wake up one day, and you're gonna realize he's moved on. He'll quit trying to win you back. And you'll regret it. And if there's anything The Plague taught me, it's that there isn't time for regret anymore.
Kirby Howell
#14. It's funny how easy it is to point out other peoples mistakes and make our own mistakes seem insignificant.
Jack Kirby
#15. Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.
Jessi Kirby
#16. It's easy to forget to look up when all you do is focus on the road straight ahead.
Jessi Kirby
#17. She has that kind of manic focus about her, like if she just keeps moving, the things she's upset about can't catch her.
Jessi Kirby
#18. But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.
Luke Kirby
#19. But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.
Jessi Kirby
#20. After four years we know each other's hearts and souls. We've grown and loved and fought and everything in between, which is why, to talk about who I am, I have to start with him. The person I am now, and who I want to be in the future, is wrapped up tight in Shane, and in us together.
Jessi Kirby
#21. I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.
Jack Kirby
#22. I feel that man can transcend himself to a point where he can accomplish greater things than he thinks. I see people depressed and I see people who devalue themselves and I feel that's a terrible, terrible waste. But I love the people who try. But try fairly, try honestly.
Jack Kirby
#23. When Superman came out it galvanized the entire industry. It's just part of the American scene.
Jack Kirby
#24. 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
#25. My style is personal, my style of writing is personal, and I believe in that. I believe what comes out of me is an individual thing, and that's why I, I believe in the individual.
Jack Kirby
#26. That's what seems the most sad to me - that neither of them even think there's a possibility they can be together.
Jessi Kirby
#27. It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.
Kirby Wright
#28. It's too much, this. Life, and love, and how fragile it all is.
Jessi Kirby
#30. A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations.
William Kirby
#31. 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
#33. Today the wind and I burst through the double doors together, and it carries me like someone who's going places, because now it's official. I am.
Jessi Kirby
#34. 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
#35. I came out of school one day, and there was this pulp magazine. It was a rainy day, and it was floating toward the sewer in the gutter. So I pick up this pulp magazine, and it's Wonder Stories, and it's got a rocket-ship on the cover, and I'd never seen a rocket-ship.
Jack Kirby
#36. I've never done anything half-heartedly; it's a disservice to me and the audience if I do it half-heartedly.
Jack Kirby
#37. But it's terrifying to realise how much of your world is wrapped up in loving another person
Jessi Kirby
#38. It's a strange, surreal thing to watch an ideal crumble right in front of your eyes, and to know there's absolutely nothing you can do about it.
Jessi Kirby
#39. It's not actually making the choice that take courage. It's facing it afterward.
Jessi Kirby
#40. It's not letting your anger out that gets people hurt. Its keeping the anger locked up in side that hurts you.
Jack Kirby
#41. I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.
Jessi Kirby
#42. We are made of our pasts, and our pains, our joys and our losses. It's in the very fiber of our beings. Written on our hearts.
Jessi Kirby
#43. I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.
Kirby Bliss Blanton
#44. I write from a people's point of view. I love people because I understand them. I understand an enemy, I understand a friend, I understand grey areas, and I understand black areas.
Jack Kirby
#45. Shad ignored my sudden lack of interest. "Stop overanalyzing and be happy. You should try the Shad lifestyle, Miss Winters. It's more panda bear and less porcupine."
"Huh?"
"More black and white and cuddly, and less, well ... alone and pointy.
Kirby Howell
#46. Here's my favorite line from this book, spoken after a mother asked the coach how good this year's team was going to be. "Won't know for twenty years," the coach responded. "That's when we'll know what kind of husbands and fathers they'll be. That's when we know what kind of men they'll be.
Jeff Kirby
#47. My purpose was what my father's purpose was - to make a living and to have a family. I was going to do the right thing. My dream to me was to have money to support it and to live in the kind of house I liked.
Jack Kirby
#48. My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.
Kirby Larson
#50. I never had stock endings. I didn't believe in stock endings. To make the [reader] happy was not my objective, but to make the [reader] say, "Yeah, that's what would happen" - that was my objective.
Jack Kirby
#51. I read once that water is a symbol for emotions. And for a while now I've thought maybe my mother drowned in both.
Jessi Kirby
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
Kirby Larson
#56. Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.
Seb Kirby
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. Sometimes, when we want something so badly, we fear failure more than we fear being without that thing.
Matthew J. Kirby
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
Jack Kirby
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. It is often said that the best leaders are those who serve.
Michael Kirby
#68. 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
#70. 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
#71. I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.
Kirby Larson
#72. 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
#73. It's terrifying to realize how much of your world is wrapped around loving another person.
Jessi Kirby
#74. You know ... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.
Jessi Kirby
#75. 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
#76. A story knows no honor. A story knows no allegiance. A story simply is.
Matthew J. Kirby
#77. Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.
Kirby Larson
#78. Sometimes there's kind of an "ick" factor around talking about anything about gay sexuality, for certain readers.
Kirby Dick
#79. I would be so curious to wire my brain up and see what's occurring when I act, because a performance is such a heightened state. I've always found that with doing theatre especially. It's so hard to come down.
Luke Kirby
#80. He pulled me back to him, stroking my hair as if to calm me. Tears sprang to my eyes and melted into the water around me. I didn't want to die. But people died every day. What hope I had for heaven's existence faded away, and I realized I would simply disappear.
Kirby Howell
#81. We should get these wet clothes off," I say conscious now of the cold.
A smile breaks over Colton's face. He raises an eyebrow. "Yeah?
Jessi Kirby
#82. I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.
Jack Kirby
#83. So, anything that avoids a conflict that could draw in, unhappily again, outside powers such as the United States or revisit, for example, Japan's interests in the Taiwan area would be the last thing that anyone would want.
William Kirby
#84. I always resent anybody interfering with anybody else trying to do his job. Everybody has his own job to do. If he's good, he'll do well, but if he's mediocre, he's not going to do as well as he should.
Jack Kirby
#85. I suppose that's an inevitable part of human existence, but in the bosom of a close family it can, at least, be endured. For the homeless, there is no relief. Without family or friends there's only the pain.
Peter Kirby
#86. I won't do anything bad, and I resent very deeply bad people who haven't got the ability, who try to interfere with the kind of work I'm trying to do because nobody's going to benefit from it.
Jack Kirby
#87. I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.
Jack Kirby
#88. But when's the last time you took a chance? Or didn't do what someone else expected of you? Or did something you really wanted to, even though you probably shouldn't have?
Jessi Kirby
#89. Why couldn't I be more like other girls my age? Take Mrs. Brown's niece. She spent every waking hour sizing up this beau or that, stitching tea towels and petticoats and putting aside a little each month for a set of Spode Buttercup dishes.
Kirby Larson
#90. I never duck out of a fight; I don't care what the hell the odds are, and I'm rough at times, but I try to be a decent guy all the time. That's the way I've always lived.
Jack Kirby
#91. 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
#92. Why did I keep hitching myself to dreams as big as that Montana sky? I was like Rooster Jim's chickens, with no way to fly that high.
Kirby Larson
#93. But sometimes life gives us those rare moments where we do see chance as it's happening. And in those moments, we have a choice. And sometimes we have to take a risk. And it's scary. It makes us vulnerable. But I know now it's worth it.
Jessi Kirby
#94. But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can't say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that's important is left unspoken.
Peter Kirby
#95. You're okay," she says. "It's just your first time back out here. You don't need to go back.
Jessi Kirby
#96. 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
#97. There's a whole gay culture in DC, and there are as many gay Republicans as there are gay Democrats.
Kirby Dick
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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