Chris Ware Quotes

When I was 11 years old, I thought, 'All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,' and I'm doing it. I don't have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

Chris Ware

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 28, 1967

Topics

BookThoughtConquerDoingNothing

I starred in Dr. Pepper commercials and Buick ads.

Joe Piscopo

PepperCommercialsAdsStarredDr

If there were not derivatives, there would be no bank loans at all today, because people want to get fixed-rate 30-year loans, but banks don't want to keep 30-year loans on their books.

Jeff Greene

TodayPeopleWantBankKeepGet

Before Angelina Jolie became a humanitarian, she was best known for wearing a vial of blood around her neck and kissing her brother.

Stephen Rodrick

BestBrotherBloodSheNeckHer

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Solon

ManHappyLuckyDeadCallOnly

I invest in black-led startups not because of a sense of charity. I make those investments because of the basic principle of supply and demand and the reality that black entrepreneurs typically lack the network to have their deals become bid up and overvalued.

Troy Carter

BlackRealityCharityBecomeUp

I will never permit myself to give in to American taste and lower the standards of art.

Sholom Aleichem

ArtMyselfAmericanWillNeverGive

Few promises are more sacred than the ones we make to older Americans.

Tom Rooney

PromisesMoreSacredOlderThanFew

The University of Timbuktu never existed. The only thing that existed in Timbuktu was a small mud hut.

Rousas John Rushdoony

SmallNeverMudUniversityOnlyHut

Basically, it's hard for me to assess myself, a hardship not only prompted by the immodesty of the enterprise, but because one is not capable of assessing himself, let alone his work. However, if I were to summarize, my main interest is the nature of time. That's what interests me most of all. What time can do to a man.

Joseph Brodsky

WorkNatureAloneTimeMyselfMan

The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.

Jonah Goldberg

PerspectiveBookEveryoneSomeBit

I'm a crier. You won't see me lashing out, but you will see me crying a lot.

Brad Goreski

MeYouWillSeeOutCrying

What we shouldn't be doing is borrowing money to give benefits to the most fortunate, to put the burden and pull the rug out of those who struggle the most.

Brad Schneider

MoneyStruggleDoingBurdenOutRug

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