Dave Gibbons quote: "I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out."

With the 'Watchmen' comic, we attempted to tell it in an accessible way. I deliberately made...
DAVE GIBBONS

One of the attractions for me of having 'Watchmen' made into the first Motion Comic was just...
DAVE GIBBONS

One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly f...
DAVE GIBBONS

There are people who specialise in lettering, and I've had my hand lettering made into a digital...
DAVE GIBBONS

I'm known for being very enthusiastic about using technology. A lot of the attraction is the way...
DAVE GIBBONS

I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old...
DAVE GIBBONS

You eventually come to the conclusion that there's only so much you can do with these establishe...
DAVE GIBBONS

When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or ...
DAVE GIBBONS

In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you mig...
DAVE GIBBONS

I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the cha...
DAVE GIBBONS

I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it&...
DAVE GIBBONS

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas...
DAVE GIBBONS

If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your person...
DAVE GIBBONS

I really like it when you can step outside of what's come before and find a surprise for the rea...
DAVE GIBBONS

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitt...
DAVE GIBBONS

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly ...
DAVE GIBBONS

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' ...
DAVE GIBBONS

When you're drawing something, you kind of run a movie in your head. You might close your eyes o...
DAVE GIBBONS

I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling m...
DAVE GIBBONS

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by lear...
DAVE GIBBONS

I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7...
DAVE GIBBONS

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on...
DAVE GIBBONS

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional wo...
DAVE GIBBONS

To my mind, the most successful and the best comic book illustrators are those who translate the rea...
DAVE GIBBONS

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measure...
ORLANDO GIBBONS

The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.
ORLANDO GIBBONS

Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and bro...
BILLY GIBBONS

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
BETH GIBBONS

The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS

The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a ...
BILLY GIBBONS

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
BILLY GIBBONS

I long for the solitude
of a sunset at sea,
and the chill of the breeze
coming in with the...
R.C. GIBBONS

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, ...
THOMAS GIBBONS

Alzheimer's caregivers are heroes.
LEEZA GIBBONS

Caring for an Alzheimer's patient is a situation that can utterly consume the lives and well-bei...
LEEZA GIBBONS

I want to know how these very people who are against war because of loss of life can possibly be the...
JIM GIBBONS

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives d...
BETH GIBBONS

I think that after a year of Portishead I've become a little more sober.
BETH GIBBONS

I still don't like doing interviews. I hardly do any... I hope this will be the last one for a long ...
BETH GIBBONS

I thought I had a clear picture of death, but now I know it's a mystery and it will always be a myst...
BETH GIBBONS

Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.
BETH GIBBONS

I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally m...
BETH GIBBONS

I wanted to do live things, needed an audience. Geoff was more of a studio-guy. A real programmer. S...
BETH GIBBONS

We're not Bon Jovi, you know.
BETH GIBBONS

I am a very sensitive person, very impulsive and emotional.
BETH GIBBONS

We're hearing stories. Our drivers are telling us they're seeing a lot of new faces.
BETH GIBBONS

We're really trying to get our screen-game going again. And Kevin is a big part of that.
ANDY GIBBONS

We decided that instead of focusing on St. Norbert, it was best that we focus on us. Focus on what w...
ANDY GIBBONS

We took a step forward in Week 1 (a 21-14 win over Lawrence). But last week we took a step back.
ANDY GIBBONS

We've got to go on the road and play what I'm sure will be a very motivated St. Norbert team. We're ...
ANDY GIBBONS

We have three freshmen kicking for us this year and all of them are going to do something.
ANDY GIBBONS

We want to continue what we did in the run game and get back to the Knox College-style of passing wh...
ANDY GIBBONS

As far as strength numbers go, it's the strongest team we've ever put on the field.
ANDY GIBBONS

Everything that we needed to go right since the end of 2004 has gone right. I could not be happier w...
ANDY GIBBONS

They guys are excited about it. It's like high school again.
ANDY GIBBONS

In 15 years with Knox football this is the first night game for me. I've asked everyone I can think ...
ANDY GIBBONS

The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot o...
BILLY GIBBONS

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
BILLY GIBBONS

While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by ha...
STELLA GIBBONS

That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her ...
KAYE GIBBONS

It could be the best class since the Fab Five.
BOB GIBBONS

I've never seen him play, and I don't know anyone who has. In this day and age of information, who's...
BOB GIBBONS

He's reputed to be a top international player, and from what I've heard in college circles he's a pl...
BOB GIBBONS

I liked the kid. He was friendly in high school -- I'd see him at ABCD or Nike Camp. Then I heard he...
BOB GIBBONS

No question, the No. 1 overall player is Greg (Oden).
BOB GIBBONS

I would be shocked if he's not a great college player and a future NBA draft pick,
BOB GIBBONS

There's not this pressure on them of seeing Larry Bird or Isiah Thomas or Jerry West circle the cour...
BOB GIBBONS

I really like Andy Kennedy. He's a great guy, but he's going to have the tag of 'interim coach,' whi...
BOB GIBBONS

Safety is the foundation of our business. People rely on us to offer safe train and bus service to t...
BOB GIBBONS

He is an ideal player for Richmond. He's a good high-low post player who can shoot from 3-point rang...
BOB GIBBONS

Same three guys, right here. Same three chords right here. And we've been doing this for 35 years.
BILLY GIBBONS

We came to have a good time tonight. Thanks for letting us come out and be with you. We've been doin...
BILLY GIBBONS

We've been coming out with you for a long time, ... And it's the same three guys playing the same th...
BILLY GIBBONS

Rock 'n' roll and automobiles have always had this synergistic connection,
BILLY GIBBONS

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
BILLY GIBBONS

[Tonight and tomorrow night the band will wrap up its latest six-month jaunt at the Beacon Theater, ...
BILLY GIBBONS

This place won't be here tomorrow, so let's tear it down tonight.
BILLY GIBBONS

Turn on, tune up, rock out.
BILLY GIBBONS

I was looking forward to competing against her for years to come. She really was a rising star.
BILL GIBBONS

I have that vision in my head of her being hoisted up by the cadets, just so happy. That's a night w...
BILL GIBBONS

I'm just taken aback. What a shock. Maggie is in my thoughts and prayers and I hope she gets better....
BILL GIBBONS

We have to keep stealing some on the road and we'll be OK in the second half.
BILL GIBBONS

I thought they played very well and rebounding was the story. They were beating us to loose balls an...
BILL GIBBONS

I thought that run in the second half that Maine made was the key - where they really rebounded it a...
BILL GIBBONS

You just hope to slow them down. Watching their first-half run, it almost gives you a helpless feeli...
BILL GIBBONS

Phoenix is honored to be the newest member of the Glen Raven team.
BILL GIBBONS

Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
BILLY GIBBONS

I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
JAMES GIBBONS

I've seen the power of Life Coaching firsthand and I know how beneficial it can be.
LEEZA GIBBONS

He finds his groove -- finds his rhythm a little bit. Naturally, when a guy's struggling, he starts ...
JOHN GIBBONS

Something nasty in the woodshed.
STELLA GIBBONS

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally an...
LEEZA GIBBONS

Look at the movie 'Wag the Dog.' I think this has all the elements of that movie. Our reaction to th...
JIM GIBBONS

If somebody takes the bull by the horns, it makes sense to keep the hot hand out there. We'll see. I...
JOHN GIBBONS

We've gotten more calls about the Babe now than ever.
MIKE GIBBONS

We are certainly encouraged by the [state's] interest in the long-term leasing of the dairy farm.
ROD GIBBONS

We didn't believe the imposition of a liquor license suspension was commensurate with the offense. W...
JOHN GIBBONS

We need him happy. He's the team leader. I'm hoping he was frustrated or it was taken out of context...
JAY GIBBONS

He went to get an MRI and check it out. It could be his forearm, and it could be his elbow. We don't...
JOHN GIBBONS

It's a win. Does it matter how it's played? ... There were a couple [bad] plays defensively, but we'...
JOHN GIBBONS

He's felt it for a couple weeks. We're just going to nip it in the [bud] now. It's bothered him slig...
JOHN GIBBONS

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and u...
JIM GIBBONS

Towers and McClung pitched great, ... (Towers) has been on a roll and (McClung) can overpower you wi...
JOHN GIBBONS

I tell you, he is a heck of a player. We were hoping he was going to fling that ball into the stands...
JOHN GIBBONS

Any time you lose a Gold Glove, that's a hit. But that allowed us to make that trade. We saw Hill pl...
JOHN GIBBONS

He's pitched three days in a row so he won't be in there.
JOHN GIBBONS

There's no question he's been through some tough times lately. But everybody has a little [slump]. I...
JOHN GIBBONS

You watch Ortiz over the last few years, there's not a more clutch player out there. And you can't w...
JOHN GIBBONS

Gus battled through it. I think he'd rather pitch in a tight game. He doesn't like the comfortable l...
JOHN GIBBONS

We worked on our patience, toughness and teamwork. Before the game, I told the team to just play the...
TERRY GIBBONS

He's off to a good start, but he's getting caught up in good starts by all of them. Good starts are ...
JOHN GIBBONS

They've got a left-hander going and he's caught Bush very well, they've worked together very well th...
JOHN GIBBONS

Hopefully, someone who was in that vehicle will come forward and say what happened. Everybody loves ...
NICOLE GIBBONS

He belongs here. He's paid his dues. He deserves it.
JOHN GIBBONS

All indications from the MRI are that it's nothing serious. You've got to let it calm down. He had t...
JOHN GIBBONS

You feel the music needs something but you don't know what. So you start searching, fitting, measuri...
BETH GIBBONS

He's so locked in, but he's worked at it. He was a perennial slow starter until this year. All that ...
JOHN GIBBONS

I envision my mind as a plot of grass full of sheep surrounded by a perimeter of electric fence. If ...
BRITTANY GIBBONS

Doubling it is good. I think 10 is a little light. Ten you can get away with as a team. You can do w...
JAY GIBBONS

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart dise...
LEEZA GIBBONS

I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you ...
KAYE GIBBONS

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don't have to be in a hurry because you ain...
BILLY GIBBONS

At this stage of the game we've got come out of it over .500, no question, ... Boston's rolling, the...
JOHN GIBBONS

He's our closer. He's a big part of our team. You win together, you lose together.
JOHN GIBBONS

It's a big day for him. I saw him yesterday and wished him luck and told him to have fun out there. ...
JOHN GIBBONS

Towers and McClung pitched great. (Towers) has been on a roll and (McClung) can overpower you with h...
JOHN GIBBONS

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music ...
BETH GIBBONS

All of those stories about my interview-fear date from the beginning of the band. At the time of our...
BETH GIBBONS

There's not only emotion in the way you sing but also in what you sing. That way I can compensate it...
BETH GIBBONS

I don't think it is anything serious. He went back to Toronto with tenderness in his forearm. It sho...
JOHN GIBBONS

He was outstanding. I still don't know why the Mets got rid of him.
JOHN GIBBONS

We want to create a new image for Marshfield Super Speedway, and by joining ASA it is a first step i...
TOMMY GIBBONS

It's relatively affluent, and the affluence is rising faster than in the country as a whole.
DALE GIBBONS

He's good. He's got a good arm, and he's got that funky fastball.
JOHN GIBBONS

It was a little bit of a sloppy game.
JOHN GIBBONS

No, I've heard of that but no, I wouldn't want to make a mockery of this,
JOHN GIBBONS

They recruit their managers from the factory floor; we get ours out of law schools.
JOHN GIBBONS

He's pitched so good lately and he hasn't had much to show for it.
JOHN GIBBONS

There was no reason at all to toss me,
JOHN GIBBONS

There was no reason at all to toss me. Everyone thought the ball hit the dirt. I guess he thought I ...
JOHN GIBBONS

I think he may be a little tired. This is his first year doing it and what's affecting him now is hi...
JOHN GIBBONS

There's no romantic Seattle or Manchester-like offensive of musical solidarity feeling in Bristol.
BETH GIBBONS

Well, I'll tell you, about a year ago in November the National Zoo had its first litter of cheetah c...
JOHN GIBBONS

I am humbled and grateful for the four years the people of the state of Nevada have given me as gove...
JIM GIBBONS

Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to ...
BILLY GIBBONS

Leaders need to sacrifice "power-over" to get "power-to".
PAUL GIBBONS

I expect his command to be a little bit better. I talked to a couple pitching coaches that I ran int...
JOHN GIBBONS

Personally, I think he has the coaching ability. A lot of it will depend on his staff. He'll need to...
BOB GIBBONS

He played in my Memorial Day Tournament of Champions. He was, by far, the most advanced ninth-grader...
BOB GIBBONS

He's a good hitter, and he's having a tremendous September. He could arguably be the Rookie of the Y...
JOHN GIBBONS

He'll stay down here and catch in extended.
JOHN GIBBONS

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.
KAYE GIBBONS

Nobody expected him to be here when he came up, but I think it's done wonders for him. [But] I don't...
JOHN GIBBONS

21st century leaders will be growers, not knowers.
PAUL GIBBONS

Although science is not easy in complex human systems, we cannot afford to throw our hands in the ai...
PAUL GIBBONS

Use of analytics is accelerating, and that means more data-driven
decision making and fewer hun...
PAUL GIBBONS

There was nothing scientific about Scientific Management (Taylorism), and neither was it good manage...
PAUL GIBBONS

Behaviorism was a busted flush, but neo-behaviorist theories, especially choice architecture, achiev...
PAUL GIBBONS

Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research ...
PAUL GIBBONS

The psychological theories that inform day-to-day business practices are comprised mostly of folk-ps...
PAUL GIBBONS

Many of the cataclysmic leadership failures were failures of rationality. The pendulum of leadership...
PAUL GIBBONS

The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their ...
PAUL GIBBONS

Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create or...
PAUL GIBBONS

Don't let Deepak Chopra manage your change program.
PAUL GIBBONS

We have minds that are equipped for certainty, linearity and short-term decisions, that must instead...
PAUL GIBBONS

He's really confident when he pitches against them. When he's on, he's awful tough.
JOHN GIBBONS

He got the number of pitches he needed. He didn't look bad. That one inning, he was scattering a lit...
JOHN GIBBONS

Look at the last two years. He had that collapsed lung twice, and then he broke his hand at the begi...
JOHN GIBBONS

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybo...
KAYE GIBBONS

We're in good shape because our offence has been very good at this point.
JOHN GIBBONS

It didn't start out good, that's for sure. We've been swinging good and we like our offence. When yo...
JOHN GIBBONS

We gave them some extra outs and it took our offence a while to get going. But for the most part our...
JOHN GIBBONS

You win together you lose together ... That offence has carried this pitching many times this year.
JOHN GIBBONS

On some of the penalties we've been taking lately, it doesn't matter who's in the lineup and who's n...
RYAN GIBBONS

. . . What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortu...
STELLA GIBBONS

He's a big part of our team. We win together, we lose together. Yes, he's still the closer.
JOHN GIBBONS

He changed his stance a little bit. He's a little more spread out, a little more crouched -- in a st...
JOHN GIBBONS

If he drives in 60, that would be fine. He's got the knack too for some clutch hits because he puts ...
JOHN GIBBONS

We were raving about him two months ago.
JOHN GIBBONS

I think (sending McGowan to Triple-A) would do him good because of the way the bullpen is stacked up...
JOHN GIBBONS

These guys [the White Sox] I think are better because they've got [designated hitter Jim] Thome now....
JOHN GIBBONS

We've been swinging. We like the way our offence is built.
JOHN GIBBONS

What a difference offence makes. That didn't start out too well, down 4-0. If we didn't have offence...
JOHN GIBBONS

We're excited to again be working with the Petty organization and thrilled to be a part of a year th...
TOM GIBBONS

Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless waited their turn to be milked.
STELLA GIBBONS

One of the things that Sara Jane was asked in court yesterday by Deputy District Attorney Eleanor Hu...
SANDI GIBBONS

Alex made some adjustments to his stance. I just see him better than I've ever seen him. He's more a...
JOHN GIBBONS

Green fingers was the country name for time, patience and love working together.
STELLA GIBBONS

Miller had gone off on some affairs of his own, as he always did when the routine at Bryant’s was ...
STELLA GIBBONS

You never really know what to expect. He did OK. He was overthrowing, but that's [something] to be e...
JOHN GIBBONS

Roy has missed nine starts so far. You figure he's good for at least four wins. Where are we with fo...
JOHN GIBBONS

Bookshelves stood against the four walls. They were shapely and well made, but were all second-hand;...
STELLA GIBBONS

Personally, I don't see him making that start. He has to come out and throw in the 'pen but whether ...
JOHN GIBBONS

Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,'...
BILLY GIBBONS

It's just one of those feel-good stories, singing the national anthem at the Oriole game.
JAY GIBBONS

We played a good ballgame. We scratched a couple runs and caught the big break.
JOHN GIBBONS

We don't want to throw him out there just for the sake of throwing him out there.
JOHN GIBBONS

His young man's limbs, sleek in their dark male pride, seemed to disdain the covering offered them b...
STELLA GIBBONS

He's using the whole field. Last year he was primarily pull -- when he did things he was pulling the...
JOHN GIBBONS

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

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Dave Gibbons

I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art school would have prepared me to draw comics. Half of the people I know in comics went to art school, half of them didn't. Some of them went and dropped out.

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