Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

Marjane Satrapi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: iranian
  • Birth: November 22, 1969

Topics

TalentWritingThinkBetterChoose

I have never personally seen a hand transplant that is more useful than a prosthesis.

Joe Murray

HandMoreNeverSeenTransplant

The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.

Jerry Garcia

ProcessGuitarAestheticYouTry

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

John Malkovich

WantRunEmpire

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Palmer

LoveMusicSpiritThroughLikeThen

Unbeknown to me, my manager, under my very nose (in a crouching position) has all these years been secretly compiling a book from my correspondence. I often wondered what she was doing in my office. She never did a stroke of work for me. All the time, I have been working for her.

Spike Milligan

WorkTimeMeBookDoingManager

I'm used to seeing it, but it's weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it's kind of surreal to have one in your house.

Steven Wright

WeirdAwardYouSeeingHouseKind

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

PeopleFightingAmericaMovement

When I first started experimenting with harmonics, I'd sometimes hook up two distortion boxes just to get my strings 'frying,' which helped bring out the harmonics.

Dimebag Darrell

SometimesFirstTwoOutUpBring

I might not be here if it wasn't for the research and the technology that March of Dimes provided for my family and me.

Ally Brooke

FamilyTechnologyMeResearchMarch

I have been agreeably disappointed in my idea of the camels. They are far from unpleasant to ride; in fact, it is much less fatiguing than riding on horseback, and even with the little practice I have yet had, I find it shakes me less.

William John Wills

RidePracticeMeFindRidingLittle

The one kind of person I have a lot of trouble understanding is the kind of person that says the existence of God or religion doesn't matter, it's not an important decision. I think it's vitally important; it's what all our lives are based on.

Penn Jillette

GodDecisionReligionThinkPerson

Most people, they're dug in. 'Michael Jordan is the best player, and there's nothing LeBron can do.' A lot of people dug in that LeBron is whiny and he complains, he jumped teams, he wants all the best players. And once you have your mind made up on a particular topic, there's no moving you off of that.

Shannon Sharpe

BestPeopleMindMovingYouNothing

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