Waid Quotes

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

Mark Waid

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

T.L. Christopher-Waid

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

Jess Waid

#4. Socrates should have written comics.

Mark Waid

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

Mark Waid

#6. 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

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

Ruta Sepetys

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

Utah Phillips

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. 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

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

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

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

Jean Paul Gaultier

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

Mark Waid

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Eliot Schrefer

#22. 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

#23. 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

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

Mark Waid

#25. 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

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

Harvey Cox

#27. 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

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

Mark Waid

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Mark Waid

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

Alan Cohen