Top 100 Mcfarlane Quotes
#1. I'll do a deal with you McFarlane," he said. "You can exist. And you can even have coffee. But if you raise your voice or make any sudden movements, I shall die. And that'll show you." Seb shrugged in return, hiding how pleased he was pretty badly. "Fair enough.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#2. All those wasted years spent trying to get inconsequential people to like her. She never asked herself why she should like them.
Mhairi McFarlane
#3. Being with the wrong person is lonelier than being on your own. Or it's as lonely, in a different way,
Mhairi McFarlane
#4. The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.
Robert McFarlane
#5. Talk of "types" should probably end around the same time you stop having pin-ups on your wall.
Mhairi McFarlane
#6. I don't think cops should wear mirrored sunglasses; the whole time the guy was chewing me out, all I could think was I should cut my bangs.
Bonnie McFarlane
#7. Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.
Todd McFarlane
#8. Just a tip if you have a big event to go to or an important meeting, if you cry enough your face swells up giving you a temporary lift.
Bonnie McFarlane
#9. I'm a lawyer, Rachel. We keep going until we get an answer we believe.
Mhairi McFarlane
#10. Isn't it weird how we make big decisions in life based on the strangest, most random things?
Mhairi McFarlane
#12. It's pathetic, I knew I did from that first moment we met. It was ... not love at first sight exactly, but - familiarity. Like: oh, hello, it's you. It's going to be you. Game over.
-Ben
Mhairi McFarlane
#13. I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.
Todd McFarlane
#14. University's like this little world, a bubble of time separate from everything before and everything after.
Mhairi McFarlane
#15. When you love someone, you want their happiness even when it's not going to involve you. Even when it depends on your lack of involvement.
Mhairi McFarlane
#16. I guess
we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of
people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.
Todd McFarlane
#17. Sometimes when I'm bored, I like to people watch. And I got to a touristy area and I play this game I just made up. I call it Lesbian or Midwestern?
Bonnie McFarlane
#18. If you really are superior, you don't go around saying you're superior - unless you're Jewish.
Bonnie McFarlane
#20. Being single means getting used to your own company and not inventing excuses to keep people around you, None of which makes me feel any less bereft. The latest revelation: you have to relearn being your own again!
Mhairi McFarlane
#21. I think you're bound to feel guilty, and you're going to feel sad. You have to simply feel it. Don't hate yourself. It is what it is.
Mhairi McFarlane
#22. About 85 percent of what you see is just because I get on the phone and [say], 'Let's go do this'. I don't do any market research or test groups or focus [groups]. I just go, 'It's my company; would I buy it, personally?'
Todd McFarlane
#23. There's no such thing as a feminist - just women who pay for their own breast implants.
Bonnie McFarlane
#24. The life with him you feel like you lost out on, it's perfect because it's a fantasy and it's a fantasy because it's perfect.
Mhairi McFarlane
#25. Intellectually, I think everyone really knows that women are funny, but it's a weird thing that people keep trotting out.
Bonnie McFarlane
#26. One night with you and he's turned into a love-letter writer. You must have an incredible pelvic floor.
Mhairi McFarlane
#27. I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember ... dying.
Todd McFarlane
#28. It can't really happen today the way it did back then and part of that is because I think there's a bit of a competitive scare over at Marvel and DC so they lock guys up with exclusive contracts.
Todd McFarlane
#29. I love my hunting dog. I loved my hunting dog - I'm not very good at hunting.
Bonnie McFarlane
#30. I want to go to my grave a free man. Surviving against giants-that's victory.
Todd McFarlane
#31. There are different kinds of terrorist movements, and specifically you occasionally face a bully, a Qaddafi. But a bully is different from a zealot. A bully you can deal with, with force, and persuade that bully, through force alone, to stop what he was doing.
Robert McFarlane
#32. When you're pregnant, people feel like they can come up and give you unsolicited advice. When I was nine months pregnant, this one woman came up and she said, I have one word for you: epidural. And I was like, Oh my God, thanks. But we already picked a name.
Bonnie McFarlane
#33. You make a nice mum,' I mumbled.
'I always hoped one day the woman of my dreams would say those words to me,' he said, ruffling my vomity hair. I would've poked him in the ribs in reprisal, but I lacked the motor skills.
Mhairi McFarlane
#34. The deal is that you can do it, you don't really owe me anything, but at the end of it, I own the film. Then I can actually go out and reprint or not reprint if it I want.
Todd McFarlane
#35. Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.
Todd McFarlane
#37. Sound the tocsin of national peril and hordes of well-meaning folk with nothing much to do always materialize from nowhere. They itch to meddle in great matters of which their comprehension is usually pretty dim, and have no objection to getting their names and pictures in the papers.
Leslie McFarlane
#38. I jog, actually; I go at night. A lot of women, they don't like to go jogging alone at night. They're afraid they might get accosted. I go naked. That way, if there are any perverts around, they think I'm already being chased.
Bonnie McFarlane
#39. To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.
Todd McFarlane
#40. Do nothing, and nothing happens. Life is about decisions. You either make them or they're made for you, but you can't avoid them.
Mhairi McFarlane
#41. Anthology shows as a whole scare people. The networks can't quite get their heads around it.
Todd McFarlane
#42. When I first got into this biz called show, I decided I was going to change my name, make it more Hollywood. And you know how you do that? You take your middle name and the first street that you ever lived on. So when I first started, I actually went by Sue Rural Route 2.
Bonnie McFarlane
#43. You won't find someone who treats you as you should be treated until you start to believe you are worth the ones you want, the ones who aren't asking you to do any work. Find the man who appreciates you at your best, not one who confirms your worst suspicions about yourself.
Mhairi McFarlane
#44. Nothing worthwhile was without risk. You had to decide whether your feelings were strong enough to make it a risk worth taking.
Mhairi McFarlane
#45. London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day
Mhairi McFarlane
#46. Well I grew up in Canada in a really small town. We didn't have running water for a long time and we didn't have TV. Then when we did get TV we only had one channel.
Bonnie McFarlane
#47. I've been fortunate to come on places where the question isn't why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didn't anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about.
Todd McFarlane
#48. Law that stated you didn't advertise any event you hadn't attended, any place you'd never been, or any band you didn't really listen to.
Mhairi McFarlane
#49. Funny how, when one part of your life falls away, the other bits that are left start looking rather feeble.
Mhairi McFarlane
#50. Image has to be its own fortress, in spite of the owners. People can't separate that or they don't comprehend that you can turn that on and off for each one of the different entities.
Todd McFarlane
#51. When I first started doing stand-up, I would be so nervous that I would just binge drink really heavily right before my sets, and as you can imagine, that had its drawbacks. But now I'm a professional, so I pace myself throughout the day.
Bonnie McFarlane
#52. He's an irrelevant person. Learn to spot irrelevant people. Don't expect someone who doesn't know who they are to care who you are.
Mhairi McFarlane
#53. I saw the head of NOW - National Organization of Women - saying that women still only make 70 cents on the dollar to every man. I'm not sure I'm going to believe that. Women are notoriously bad at math.
Bonnie McFarlane
#54. A lot was happening, plus there were an enormous number of people in the industry that were going to conventions, so it was a pretty fun time. Also there was a lot of controversy and I was at the forefront of some of that.
Todd McFarlane
#55. I guess the biggest issue my husband and I are going to have is how do we raise the baby ... because he's Jewish and I'm Protestant and the baby's father is Catholic.
Bonnie McFarlane
#56. It was startling and humbling to realise how much time you could spend with people to whom you meant so little and vice versa
Mhairi McFarlane
#58. But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.
Todd McFarlane
#59. If you enjoy shaming people, I suggest dentistry as a profession.
Bonnie McFarlane
#60. That special Manchester rain that manages to be both vertical and horizontal at the same time.
Mhairi McFarlane
#61. That's the whole story of how I was so stupid as to risk everything that mattered to me, on something so meaningless.
Mhairi McFarlane
#62. I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
Todd McFarlane
#63. Given that I have to share my computer with my three children, it's not usually a site that I get to spend that much time on. I'm usually on the Nickelodeon site, coloring with my little five year old or something.
Todd McFarlane
#64. That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit so that it looked like I was trying to add something instead of keeping the status quo.
Todd McFarlane
#65. I like the city late at night, the blasts of music and the splashes of light cast from bars that are still open, shoals of brightly-dressed clubber, the beeping taxis and the greasy, savoury smell of meat and onions from the burger vans.
Mhairi McFarlane
#66. Batman is easily my most favorite character beside Spawn.
Todd McFarlane
#67. She'd guessed it was partly borne of a private education. Now she pictured him on yachts, as well as attending Hogwarts.
Mhairi McFarlane
#68. I even knew some of the dialogue but it was definitely cool to look at. We always argue that the movies should be loyal but in this case I could argue that it might have been too loyal.
Todd McFarlane
#69. no one paid attention and when Elle bounced back in, she turned the sensor on again and shut the door. 'Let's have some of our feast now!' she said. 'Good thinking,' said Isi as she reached into the laundry basket and took
Susannah McFarlane
#70. Love is what we call it when we find someone else, but lose ourselves.
Mhairi McFarlane
#71. I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family would sort of get angry, like not understand.
Bonnie McFarlane
#72. That became a big time in comic books because it's when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
Todd McFarlane
#73. Cocaine is yucky. I did it once: I was at a party; I was bored. I was like, 'Alright, I'll do a line.' Then I was just bored longer.
Bonnie McFarlane
#74. In 1985, the Iranian sponsorship of terrorism was clear, solid evidence.
Robert McFarlane
#75. Very few people voluntarily make things worse for themselves, if they have a choice. You know, there's the way we all like to think we behave, and then there's the way we actually do.
Mhairi McFarlane
#76. There's some sense in not going back. That way, you preserve it.
Fiona McFarlane
#77. I think it's creepy if a guy says, I would never hit a girl. Cause that should go without saying. That's like if you ever heard a guy go, I would never crap in a hot tub.
Bonnie McFarlane
#78. If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.
Todd McFarlane
#79. It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.
Todd McFarlane
#80. My sister might be dumb, but that doesn't make her all that different from the rest of us. She's just like any other American. Except she's Canadian. And retarded.
Bonnie McFarlane
#81. You know, women are burdened with all this other crap all the time, like looking good. You need to be really superhuman to be successful as a woman.
Bonnie McFarlane
#82. I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.
Todd McFarlane
#83. This is an odd one. You have one country in the world where a word has a deeper meaning, it can really mess with design plans ... But we have a difficult situation here so I guess we'll be looking at putting different sound chips in the dolls heading there [Britain].
Todd McFarlane
#84. I wanted him to be happy and it was also going to be the thing that hurt the most
Mhairi McFarlane
#85. I could never be a lesbian because I have a really good sense of humor.
Bonnie McFarlane
#86. I was right I couldn't fall in love with you. Because i never fell out of love with you.
-Ben
Mhairi McFarlane
#87. President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.
Robert McFarlane
#88. His sadness was almost palpable, like moisture in the air before it rains. Although this was Manchester, it was probably about to rain anyway.
Mhairi McFarlane
#89. Present company excepted is such an elegantly insulting term, I think, given it clearly means present company especially. It's up there with with all due respect, meaning with no respect whatsoever.
Mhairi McFarlane
#91. I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.
Todd McFarlane
#93. I'm a guy who likes to watch something cool, creepy and suspenseful and there is no show to watch as an adult that would scare me at for even four seconds.
Todd McFarlane
#94. The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.
Todd McFarlane
#95. If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.
Todd McFarlane
#96. Here you can see the things that other people created but that I use to express my indiviualism.
Seth Mcfarlane
#97. I don't belong. Not here. Not now. I have to get back there. The bet was rigged, he made me believe. Now there's darkness in my soul. I want to die ... again. But I choose to come back, why?
Todd McFarlane
#98. I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!
Bonnie McFarlane
#99. Bear in mind North Korea has been the leading source, a leading source of nuclear technology and of missile delivery systems to some of the world's great rogues in Iran and Syria.
Robert McFarlane
#100. Delia realised you should see plenty of people you love, because the meaningful conversations don't happen in the first twenty four hours together, or forty-eight, or even the first few days. They came at moments like this.
Mhairi McFarlane
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