Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The mystery of the written word;It bequeaths a different meaning every blessed day. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck MICHAEL GRANT He was already fading. I knew that it wouldn't be long until he was just a vague image, however much... CAROLINE GREEN The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach t... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes. LEN WISEMAN Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them i... JON SCIESZKA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ... GERMANY KENT You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE I'm the rose within the concrete that simulates the struggle, yet the blossom reveals defeat. THE WRITTEN FACE Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you. GREGG KORROL Focus on your work. Do what you're great at. Don't compare yourself to others and or waste time crit... GERMANY KENT Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so p... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES The best way to learning anything well is to seek out those who are the best in what you want to lea... LORRIN L. LEE Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Ιη m¥ books, ł'm †ђ3 best; I just need some time тσ prove it ιη ¥øûЯ history books. UFUOMA APOKI If you want to marry me, here's what you'll have to do: You must learn how to make a perfect ch... SHEL SILVERSTEIN When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down. MANDY HALE In the end, as a manager or coach, you have to keep your heart pure and do your best as a manager or... TONY LA RUSSA Locating God’s Word that describes the true picture of your future is the key that unlocks the mys... BENJAMIN SUULOLA Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool. EMM COLE We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Leave the problems of God to God and karma to karma. Today you're here and nothing you do will chang... JAMES CLAVELL [T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels... PAUL AUSTER Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your persistent actions are the bridge between mind and matter, between the inner and the outer. Do ... DRAGOS BRATASANU Yet the deepest truths are best read between the lines, and, for
the most part, refuse to be writte... AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do. RICHIE NORTON Write to Say something, Say to Make something, Make to Be something. SHASHIDHAR SA Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW I want to take time for myself, because all my life is ta-ta-ta-ta. So I don't want nothing spec... RENZO ROSSO I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself! RAMANA PEMMARAJU Scriptures are to religion, what sci-fi comic-books are to innovation. ABHIJIT NASKAR In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources... STEPHEN LANG - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ... FRANK MILLER I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... C. JOYBELL C. Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you're confused about what to do, it's a sign that your enemy is winning. TOBA BETA Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST If you want your life to be a five-star reality, you have to stop settling for a fast food mentality... MANDY HALE That day I realized that at least for the time being, I was becoming Christian’s somebody. A... MELYSSA WINCHESTER Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal. CRAIG GROESCHEL I really enjoyed writing the first book. And since then it's been great. I've written every word of ... MARIO BATALI The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio ser... HUGH MACKAY How do you love your children? By doing what's best for them. Then how would you love your... J. GRANT HOWARD There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic boo... JOHN RIDLEY The power to have a functional imagination faculty,is by learning to activate it through constant re... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book wr... BETH MOORE One word after another. That’s the only way that novels get written and, short of elves comin... NEIL GAIMAN I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a ... TA-NEHISI COATES I love living around black people. Home is home. We suffer under racism and the physical deprivation... TA-NEHISI COATES It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that... TA-NEHISI COATES We are all losers in comparison to Malala Yousafzai. But we are not all geniuses. Like me. TA-NEHISI COATES We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with th... TA-NEHISI COATES I feel like my job is to look at the world and to report what I see, to write what I see as honestly... TA-NEHISI COATES My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied wit... TA-NEHISI COATES I haven't checked, but I highly suspect that chickens evolved from an egg-laying ancestor, which... TA-NEHISI COATES I love America the way I love my family - I was born into it. And there's no escape out of it. TA-NEHISI COATES
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