Telgemeier Books Quotes

#1. What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.

Madhuri Dixit

#2. I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.

Phil Collins

#3. The same water that will kill you, drown you, give you hypothermia is the same water that will help you survive.

Joe Teti

#4. Taste is often one of the aspects of fashion.

Robert Aris Willmott

#5. Typically, a book is published and gets one season in the sun. Eventually, you write another book, and maybe your old books get a bump, but my books seem to keep being discovered and recommended to new people of all ages.

Raina Telgemeier

#6. I was beautiful. Now, because I am old, I take no shame in so saying.

Lillie Langtry

#7. Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#8. All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

Raina Telgemeier

#9. For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.

Anita Brookner

#10. Please, go away!" Ignatius screamed. "You're shattering my religious ecstasy.

John Kennedy Toole

#11. We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.

Rick Riordan

#12. My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

Cormac McCarthy

#13. Don't fear suffering. The strongest steel is forged in the hottest fire. The facts are always friendly. Without a little agony, none of us would bother to learn a thing. The earth has to be tilled before the seeds can be planted.

Ethan Hawke

#14. We'll always be disappointed if we believe that we can plan for a peak experience and make it happen. True joy can't be anticipated or planned. It just strikes.

Harriet Lerner

#15. Whether you're a libertarian liberal or a more egalitarian liberal, the idea is that justice means being non-judgmental with respect to the preferences people bring to public life.

Michael Sandel

#16. According to the psychologist irving Janis, is that our sense of belonging (which makes us feel safe) blinds us to dangers and encourages greater risk-taking.

Margaret Heffernan

#17. I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

Malcolm McLaren