Way Quotes - Page 623

I'm always trying to get those interviews that are impossible to get, because they are the ones that are most interesting to the audience.

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

Saddam Hussein is being treated the exact opposite of the way his regime treated those he imprisoned and tortured simply for expressing their opinions. And so I reject that.

Fellini is a just a province kid. Rome exists for Fellini, not the other way around.

I guess the things I have always loved are from people who were just being themselves. They were doing these things because they couldn't do it any other way. It was for them.

There's always tons of crap music people are trying to sell us - [it's] the same way with publishers and galleries.

Have you ever felt as if other people were smarter than you? Quicker on the uptake? Zombies feel this way every day.

I try to listen to people, coaches and other pitchers, and see what they do and how they try to do it. Then I try to find a way that's comfortable for me.

A permanent path That, once illuminated, Goes ever onward - a way home.

Certainly many of us never anticipated that states would become addicted to the tobacco money as a way to finance their operations.

Seeking chaos is at least one way to develop the skills and mindsets to tackle ambiguity.

I have a fear right now that what I call the advertising-narcissism complex is sucking up way too much top talent.

If you work on a new product launch, spent time in a new geography, or work to develop a completely new skill, you have no choice but to figure out new ways to solve problems.

There's a general belief that failure is the friend of the innovator, but I've come to view it a different way.

The way you find the answers to your problems will be unique to you.

Things go away and projects crumble and disappear, or you make your movie and it comes out and no one watches it.

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car.

Dilbert: It took weeks but I've calculated a new theory about the origin of the universe. According to my calculations it didn't start with a "Big Bang" at all-it was more of "Phhbwt" sound. You may be wondering about the practical applications of the "Little Phhbwt" theory. Dogbert: I was wondering when you'll go away.

As you know, the best way to solve a problem is to identify the core belief that causes the problem; then mock that belief until the people who hold it insist that you heard them wrong.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

It's not even a question of whether the universe is meaningful or meaningless. It's in what way could it be meaningful, or in what way, if it was meaningful, could that be even more meaningless than normal meaninglessness?

In some ways I'm a frustrated scientist or mathematician. The amount of times I've thought I'd go back to university and do theoretical physics because I like the big questions, but really I know now that that's not quite me. What's me is to do it in novels.