The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes.
I prefer to like the people I invest in, but it's not an absolute necessity, as long as they have a good mind and I know they'll do whatever it takes to be successful.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me it's the oil of life.
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.
The Arab world needs to appreciate that legitimate historical claims and modern necessities are what make Israel the homeland of the Jewish people.
I am your stone of necessity calling up spirits from rain puddles—your Magus of words
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.
With Cold Sassy Tree having its first production, I saw no necessity to do anything other than produce it with the correct setting.
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.
The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.
Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human rights. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
So we have a group within the office that is devoted to support for the war fighter. That's, of necessity, an operational and tactical level of concern.
