Quotes of: Comic-relief Keyword

My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I liter...

Joseph Gatt

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a c...

Joe Simon

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

Just After Sunset

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot

To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.

Patti LuPone

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

Keith Hernandez

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." [ ]

Mark Twain

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

Dick Sargent

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

Eric Avery

I just realized that I don't have to have an opinion about everything--what a relief!

David R. Hawkins

The Olympics is an imperfect interregnum, the parade of nations a fantasy about a peace never won. It offers little relief from strife and no harbor from terror.

Jill Lepore

My father did a lot of disaster relief work, and he was always in places where there was a lot of pain.

Elizabeth Holmes

The physical body itself is continually vibrating and resonating with other energies in the environment. While Western medicine has developed few interventions that are based in the recognition that energy is at the foundation of, or at least intimat...

Stress Relief for Men: How to Use the Revolutionary Tools of Energy Healing to Live Well

Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so mad that it ended so quickly. But now that I've been in the business, I tend to look at the panels so much mor...

Jane Wiedlin

To Mr. Blot, who went through life an unconscious example of the raison d'être of the British Empire, a shipwreck was merely one of the many things to be ignored. His was a calming influence.

Our Hearts Were Young and Gay: An Unforgettable Comic Chronicle of Innocents Abroad in the 1920s

I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks so there would be some variety inside the comic. But since then, people have been doing more and more long, standalone works,...

Jim Woodring

I'm not a child star, but you could say that I've grown up on TV. I went from being an unknown, down-and-out comic from Brooklyn and the Bronx to being a regular character on a major network comedy called 'Martin.' From there I went on to become the ...

Tracy Morgan

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it...

Kurt Busiek

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People...

Harvey Pekar

Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove of comics included gems such as 'Little Lulu,' 'Frontline Combat' and 'Classics Illustrated.' But the works that stood head and shoulders above the r...

Jeff Kinney