Waid Quotes

#1. The best comics editors have the smallest egos. The worst ones feel like they have to justify their salaries by making changes just so they can leave their fingerprints. Every creative medium has those guys, and they're all loathsome.

Mark Waid

#2. Don't talk yourself out of following your heart. Talk yourself into it.

Alan Cohen

#3. Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

Mark Waid

#4. You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that.

Jeannette Walls

#5. It's not often that I get to remember and use phrases like "on out my farm" or "powerful ugly" in modern scripts.

Mark Waid

#6. Why can't Spider-sense warn you when you're about to get dumped?

Mark Waid

#7. She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

Eleanor Catton

#8. There is scarcely one figure in the entire Hebrew scripture we would want our children to emulate.

Harvey Cox

#9. Under oath and with God and the media as my witness, I'm telling you that I am Daredevil. Always have been, always will be.

Mark Waid

#10. We answer rage with wisdom. We answer fear with imagination. We answer war with hope. We are, each of us, important.

Mark Waid

#11. Comics are expensive. Don't make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters - preferably both - and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.

Mark Waid

#12. All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

Adyashanti

#13. I have to tell you how nice that sound is. I haven't heard laughter in weeks.

Eliot Schrefer

#14. When you give me something that I love, then I spend a long time drilling down on it and figuring out what it is I love about it.

Mark Waid

#15. Super-heroes were created to represent the best in all of us. We should aspire to match their nobility, not their ability to shoot big chrome guns.

Mark Waid

#16. There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one ... single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.

Diana Gabaldon

#17. Mystic grimoirs, walking corpses ... I'm so far out of my wheelhouse that I might as well be on the moon.

Mark Waid

#18. Crushing people is the truth's hobby.

Mark Waid

#19. All of my life shown me that if you wanted something enough, if you were passionate enough, it would happen.

Jean Paul Gaultier

#20. We are born of this universe, we live in this universe, and the universe is in us.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#21. I didn't realize how slow my four-year-old MacBook was until the web team wanted to start using it as the benchmark for a slow computer experience.

Chris Milk

#22. Gillen and McKelvie shared their upcoming The Wicked + The Divine with me, and its amazing. Please tell your retailer this week to order!

Mark Waid

#23. Each time I think I've made a connection with someone ... once they find out what I can do, whether it's hours or days later, everything changes. Invariably they freak. They get retroactively paranoid, wondering what else Clark Kent is hiding from them.

Mark Waid

#24. We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

C.S. Lewis

#25. If you genuinely believe that only the death of a loved one can motivate a human being to take up a cause ... then get your pathetic, cynical ass out of my way so I can do my job!

Mark Waid

#26. Every good educator knows that true teaching is to teach kids how to ask the right questions.

Utah Phillips

#27. Krasivaya. It means beautiful, but with strength. Unique.

Ruta Sepetys

#28. We're going to open this bookcase and remove the grimoire."
Now I wasn't surprised so much as shocked. "No way," I shot back. "This thing is enchanted to hell and back-maybe literally."
Dad closed his eyes and took a deep breath, like he was having to physically restrain himself from yelling.

Rachel Hawkins

#29. Not since Walter Gibson has anyone been better suited to The Shadow than Howard Chaykin

Mark Waid

#30. Socrates should have written comics.

Mark Waid

#31. Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once."
Macbeth. Act III Sc. 4, Line 119

Jess Waid

#32. Someday I'll be a real adult and this shit you do won't matter to me anymore

T.L. Christopher-Waid