Jeff Lemire quote: "Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy."

There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ...
JEFF LEMIRE

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book...
JEFF LEMIRE

I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comic...
JEFF LEMIRE

To me, Green Arrow in the past, what people loved about Oliver Queen pre-New 52 was his relationship...
JEFF LEMIRE

I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping w...
JEFF LEMIRE

I have a lot of great fans. A lot of fans have cosplayed as Sweet Tooth, which I thought was really ...
JEFF LEMIRE

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-o...
JEFF LEMIRE

I can handle a lot of work. I've always been able to. I'm a very focused individual. I come ...
JEFF LEMIRE

When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/1...
JEFF LEMIRE

The cool thing about 'Sweet Tooth' is that you can bring influences from the underground and...
JEFF LEMIRE

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to ...
JEFF LEMIRE

When you're a kid, you're not as corrupted by the world at large. You're not corrupted b...
JEFF LEMIRE

I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get ...
JEFF LEMIRE

If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has ...
JEFF LEMIRE

For me, Bloodshot was the least appealing character that Valiant had. He was so cold.
JEFF LEMIRE

'Bloodshot,' for me, was unlike anything I'd ever done before, which was really the draw...
JEFF LEMIRE

My indie work is mostly reality-based, focused on real life and characters.
JEFF LEMIRE

In the case of 'Sweet Tooth,' and in the case of a lot of stuff I do, it all starts with the...
JEFF LEMIRE

'Animal Man' and 'Swamp Thing' have so many commonalities in tone and mood.
JEFF LEMIRE

There is definitely a thematic lineage between 'Descender' and my previous work, like 'S...
JEFF LEMIRE

You run the risk, whenever you build your story around a central mystery, of either letting it go to...
JEFF LEMIRE

It strikes me as a sound, honest statement for a prospective voter to say: 'Look, I haven't ...
JEFF GREENFIELD

I do believe we have voter fraud in America.
JEFF SESSIONS

Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those ...
JEFF AMENT

I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
JEFF BECK

Richard Donner's friendship and guidance showed me that there's more to life than being an a...
JEFF COHEN

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.
JEFF FOXWORTHY

Market leadership can translate directly to higher revenue, higher profitability, greater capital ve...
JEFF BEZOS

We expect all our businesses to have a positive impact on our top and bottom lines. Profitability is...
JEFF BEZOS

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Bein...
JEFF BEZOS

It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
JEFF BEZOS

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.
JEFF BEZOS

What's dangerous is not to evolve.
JEFF BEZOS

I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people&#...
JEFF KINNEY

People are roasting each other at parties, at work events, around the fire. It's so fun. People ...
JEFF ROSS

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.
JEFF BEZOS

Have you ever seen people so ugly that you have to get someone else to verify it?
JEFF FOXWORTHY

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. ...
JEFF KINNEY

I know Elon, we're very like minded in many ways. We're not conceptual twins. One thing I wa...
JEFF BEZOS

Tyria's a big world. We get a grand tour in 'Ghosts of Ascalon.' We're in Divinity&#...
JEFF GRUBB

When the blood of thousands of Americans is shed, the impact lingers. For a generation after the Civ...
JEFF GREENFIELD

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so...
JEFF TWEEDY

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out...
JEFF BEZOS

Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cy...
JEFF BRIDGES

It's not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it's that you...
JEFF KOONS

There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even ...
JEFF BRIDGES

The beauty of the Internet is that anybody can be a broadcaster now.
JEFF ZUCKER

We just got a tour bus. I didn't know tour buses could be this nice. It's just me, Brian Han...
JEFF DUNHAM

When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was ...
JEFF KINNEY

Some states like Nebraska have thus far responsibly managed their budgets, even in tough times, and ...
JEFF FORTENBERRY

Puberty was the main culprit in ending my acting career. I went from being kind of this chunky littl...
JEFF COHEN

The Census Bureau can ask citizens very invasive questions, and if they don't respond, the gover...
JEFF DUNCAN

While the Census Bureau already has a legal obligation to keep people's information confidential...
JEFF DUNCAN

Monkeys can't talk, stupid!
JEFF KINNEY

What Richard and Mildred Loving did was, by their nature, not by any calculus, they separated themse...
JEFF NICHOLS

I think Vice is vastly overrated. And I think that if you are interested in reaching young males, wh...
JEFF ZUCKER

Why - because as a oil and gas small business owner - I know if someone is not doing their job, they...
JEFF LANDRY

Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidat...
JEFF GREENFIELD

One of the pillars of backward thinking in America is the idea that you can have jobs or you can hav...
JEFF GOODELL

I'm actually the son of Mary Guibert. My mother was born in the Panama Canal zone and came to Am...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I certainly try to avoid getting bogged down in forensics. There is certainly a whole lot of other w...
JEFF LINDSAY

I love the ocean. Boats, not so much.
JEFF GOLDBLUM

You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remem...
JEFF FOXWORTHY

Sensitivity isn't being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom tim...
JEFF BEZOS

Find something in life that you love doing. If you make a lot of money, that's a bonus, and if y...
JEFF FOXWORTHY

People can transcend and overcome their differences and be very easily bonded.
JEFF FORTENBERRY

If I'm on form and I'm not being bothered too much by mental problems or whatever, I can whi...
JEFF BECK

It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt tha...
JEFF FISHER

For the first time I could remember, I felt weak, woozy and stupid— like a human-being. Like a ver...
JEFF LINDSAY

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
JEFF GREENFIELD

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music indust...
JEFF TWEEDY

For special wrestlers, there's somewhere else to go - as long as you're not brainwashed by t...
JEFF HARDY

From the industry's point of view, the problem is not that coal companies blast the top off moun...
JEFF GOODELL

I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel ...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I am not going to approve the home-screening format for my film just carte blanche in lieu of a thea...
JEFF NICHOLS

Editorial pages all say, 'Well, the other guy has a point, too. It remains to be seen how this w...
JEFF MACNELLY

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensiti...
JEFF SESSIONS

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY

Some of these people need ten years of therapy --ten sentences of mine do not equal ten years of the...
JEFF ZASLOW

But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the...
JEFF VANDERMEER

I am not shy about admitting my modest talents. For example, I am happy to admit that I am better th...
JEFF LINDSAY

You can't do everything but you can do something!
JEFF DIXON

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.
JEFF GOLDBLUM

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can not get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
JEFF VALDEZ

Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
JEFF PESIS

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.
JEFF DEWAR

We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there alw...
JEFF WARNER

I've never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished the fifth grade a year before I did.
JEFF FOXWORTHY

Do you remember how slowly the days passed when you were a child? An 80-mile car trip seemed endless...
JEFF DAVIDSON

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffics terrible.
JEFF TAYLOR

What are the best times to reflect on the course of your life? Whenever you are near water, such as ...
JEFF DAVIDSON

Ask yourself, If I had only sixty seconds on the stage, what would I absolutely have to say to get m...
JEFF DEWAR

The constant dilemma of the information age is that our ability to gathera sea of data greatly excee...
JEFF DAVIDSON

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.
JEFF ARDER

When a heart breaks it also opens -Jeff Arch- screenwriter.
JEFF ARCH

Two monologues do not make a dialogue.
JEFF DALY

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor...
JEFF FOXWORTHY

You think Nature is some Disney movie? Nature is a killer. Nature is a bitch. It's feeding time out ...
JEFF MELVOIN

The law is not so much carved in stone as it is written in water, flowing in and out with the tide.
JEFF MELVOIN

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
JEFF VALDEZ

George Washington had a vision for this country. Was it three days of uninterrupted shopping?
JEFF MELVOIN

My whole career can be summed up with 'Ignorance is bliss.' When you do not know better, you do not ...
JEFF FOXWORTHY

Sexually,we are all competing for the same seat on the bus and the thing that holds it together is t...
JEFF MELVOIN

When people are committed to things, and the world view they have is no longer in alignment with our...
JEFF BAENA

I like Donald. I guess I shouldn't call him that. I like President Trump. He's affable. He&#...
JEFF ZUCKER

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.
JEFF BEZOS

I think we're programmed for hardship. In my experience, human beings are happiest when they'...
JEFF CARLSON

Kids can sniff out when they are being preached to, and they don't like it. So while my books ar...
JEFF KINNEY

There's also a lot of gritty Americana type of bands. I actually have a lot of Britpop on my iPo...
JEFF VANDERMEER

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homelan...
JEFF MILLER

The funny thing about 'Take Shelter' is that a lot of people talk about how it was allegory ...
JEFF NICHOLS

The basic social contract is that citizens agree to follow the law, pay their taxes, and devote thei...
JEFF SESSIONS

The enemies of freedom are waging an all-out assault on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, wh...
JEFF DUNCAN

I've always said that instead of watching a guy juggle seven things amazingly I would rather see...
JEFF DUNHAM

I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have t...
JEFF MANGUM

Today, energy prices are at historic highs. Some analysts estimate that energy price shocks this yea...
JEFF BINGAMAN

I'm a chairperson for 'No Kid Hungry', a campaign for poor American children.
JEFF BRIDGES

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's...
JEFF MILLER

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alask...
JEFF GOLDBLUM

When we talk about the things at Airbnb that are challenging and that they are going to have to over...
JEFF JORDAN

Airbnb started with 'air bed and breakfast.'
JEFF JORDAN

I don't think our government really has much of a policy about air travel. I would compare the p...
JEFF SMISEK

I don't know any artists that are really emotionally well adjusted. In fact, I think we're a...
JEFF BUCKLEY

A company shouldn't get addicted to being shiny, because shiny doesn't last.
JEFF BEZOS

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the m...
JEFF ZUCKER

Critics... They're like traffic cops. They say what they have to say, then leave, and another gu...
JEFF BUCKLEY

Just because an individual in his 30s hasn't found true love and, yes, there are opportunities t...
JEFF GARCIA

Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every Sta...
JEFF SESSIONS

If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the wor...
JEFF FOXWORTHY

Corn is already the most subsidized crop in America, raking in a total of $51 billion in federal han...
JEFF GOODELL

The 2004 Election marks the first time in modern political history that Republican voter turnout mat...
JEFF MILLER

Reconciliation is a special budget procedure to change entitlement and tax laws. It cannot be filibu...
JEFF MILLER

It is no secret that our tax code is drastically outdated and burdensome to all Americans. Fortunate...
JEFF MILLER

I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment pla...
JEFF MILLER

Every American knows there are government expenses that are absolutely not necessary. I disagree wit...
JEFF MILLER

As a taxpayer, I want to assure you that Republicans are doing everything we can to reduce wasteful ...
JEFF MILLER

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands...
JEFF MILLER

I've often argued that oil and gas exploration is a state's rights issue. It is abundantly c...
JEFF MILLER

I have always been a firm believer in the longstanding American principle of having the right to bea...
JEFF MILLER

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
JEFF MILLER

All are free to believe or not believe; all are free to practice a faith or not. But those who belie...
JEFF MILLER

According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were to...
JEFF MILLER

I think it's unconscionable for a Senator from Massachusetts to come down here and tell the peop...
JEFF MILLER

I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican coll...
JEFF MILLER

Democrats have no agenda, no plan for the future, and no sense of leadership.
JEFF MILLER

Second, the facility at Guantanamo Bay is necessary to national security.
JEFF MILLER

The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and ...
JEFF MILLER

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. ...
JEFF MILLER

That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence an...
JEFF MILLER

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, b...
JEFF MILLER

The democratic process is only as great as the people who participate in it.
JEFF MILLER

To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem ...
JEFF GOLDBLUM

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
JEFF BEZOS

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one...
JEFF BUCKLEY

I don't really need to be remembered. I hope the music's remembered.
JEFF BUCKLEY

Legislation is the only lasting solution for the men and women brought to this country through no fa...
JEFF DENHAM

Decades of scientific research has proven that carbon pollution is harmful to human health and cause...
JEFF MERKLEY

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
JEFF BEZOS

I'm skeptical of any mission that has advertisers at its centerpiece.
JEFF BEZOS

The perception of Donald Trump in capitals around the world is shaped, in many ways, by CNN. Continu...
JEFF ZUCKER

The best customer service is if the customer doesn't need to call you, doesn't need to talk ...
JEFF BEZOS

I've never run into a person who yearns for their middle school days.
JEFF KINNEY

In reality, studies show that investments to spur renewable energy and boost energy efficiency gener...
JEFF GOODELL

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there...
JEFF DUNHAM

I'm often loose with my tongue. I may have said something about the NAACP being un-American or C...
JEFF SESSIONS

I've always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.
JEFF BEZOS

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard th...
JEFF BEZOS

I belong to the political party that generally fits my philosophical beliefs, but I reserve the righ...
JEFF FORTENBERRY

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.
JEFF FORTENBERRY

Being myself is what got me to where I am.
JEFF HARDY

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting g...
JEFF MILLER

I think fear is what keeps us from going over the edge. I mean, as a race car driver, I don't th...
JEFF GORDON

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it cha...
JEFF BEZOS

I first read 'Tom Sawyer' when I was in 8th grade, 13 years old. I realised since that Mark ...
JEFF NICHOLS

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powe...
JEFF BEZOS

If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a red...
JEFF FOXWORTHY

I think all the garbage in the world is thanks to a very small handful of idiots.
JEFF DUNHAM

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be...
JEFF KINNEY

Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls an...
JEFF FOXWORTHY

Nothing in life prepares you to be famous.
JEFF FOXWORTHY

There'll always be serendipity involved in discovery.
JEFF BEZOS

Your reaction when you lose control in a situation is to try and hang on tighter.
JEFF NICHOLS

Safety is something that happens between your ears, not something you hold in your hands.
JEFF COOPER

Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our r...
JEFF MERKLEY

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto t...
JEFF DUNHAM

A single moment spent in a business meeting or at a pub is more than enough to reveal the basic huma...
JEFF LINDSAY

Since I am not actually a real human being, my emotional responses are generally limited to what I h...
JEFF LINDSAY

Their conversation ceased abruptly with the entry of an oddly-shaped man whose body resembled a cert...
JEFF PHILLIPS

I used to be on the Lincoln City Council. You learn that there's never enough money for all of t...
JEFF FORTENBERRY

By now, we all know that Hollywood producers always chase after the same properties, that the sharks...
JEFF GILES

Is that why you're crying?"
(...) "It's just hormones," she said. "I didn't want anyone to see....
JEFF LINDSAY

¿Acaso no estábamos todos locos cuando dormíamos? ¿Qué era el sueño, al fin y al cabo, sino el...
JEFF LINDSAY

Pero, por triste que sea, la vida no siempre imita al arte. -Dexter
JEFF LINDSAY

That left either magical powers or coincidence, and although I have nothing at all against Harry Pot...
JEFF LINDSAY

Cualquiera puede ser encantador si no le importa mentir y decir todas las cosas estúpidas, obvias y...
JEFF LINDSAY

She stared at me "You have a message," she said. "On you machine."
I looked over at my answerin...
JEFF LINDSAY

I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wai...
JEFF LINDSAY

Rectory always sounded to me like a place you would find a proctologist.
JEFF LINDSAY

Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy.

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Oliver Queen/Green Arrow is a character whose core is about legacy and responsibility. And that all comes from his father and the responsibilities of living up to his legacy.

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