Brewster Mccloud Quotes

I'm driven by issues, not driven to be political. ~ Kevin McCloud

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision. ~ Tom Brewster

If you're going to be stupid, at least be smart about it. (Eric Brewster's mother) ~ Eric Brewster

I'm terribly fastidious. I like symmetry and neatness, but my house is as chaotic as any other family's. ~ Kevin McCloud

I don't want anything that I buy to have done any harm to anyone or anything. ~ Kevin McCloud

True strength lies in our knowing, individually, what we are, who we are, and what we want. ~ Paget Brewster

Lack of vigilance will get you killed. A McCloud creed that he seemed to have internalized. ~ Shannon McKenna

It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. ~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.

A medium is a bridge between two minds. ~ Scott McCloud

I was totally into cartoon babes when I was a little dude. Cheetara from the 'Thundercats,' then Jessica Rabbit, and finally I moved onto a real-life human being and was into Punky Brewster, and then Christina Applegate on 'Married with Children.' ~ Pete Wentz

I like action more than anything touchy-feely. ~ Jordana Brewster

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. ~ Scott McCloud

I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style. ~ Scott McCloud

A great deal of energy is wasted in hating people, and I can honestly say I've no wish to expend such a precious resource on being outraged about anyone. ~ Kevin McCloud

Parking is a nightmare for me ... I still have sensors on my car that help me park. ~ Jordana Brewster

When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls - I'd be the crazy diva Barbie and she'd be the homeless Barbie. ~ Jordana Brewster

The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance. ~ Scott McCloud

The opportunity before all of us is living up to the dream of the Library of Alexandria and then taking it a step further - universal access to all knowledge. Interestingly, it is now technically doable ~ Brewster Kahle

When I left university, I idled around without focus for much too long. ~ Kevin McCloud

Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things which do not occur to the less learned ... it makes it less likely that you will be bored with life. ~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.

Death is not easily escaped, try it who will; but every living soul among the children of men dwelling upon the earth goeth of necessity unto his destined place, where the body, fast in its narrow bed, sleepeth after feast. ~ Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious. ~ David Brewster

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed. ~ Jordana Brewster

Space does for comics what time does for film! ~ Scott McCloud

There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money. ~ Kevin McCloud

We all live in a televised goldfish bowl. ~ Kingman Brewster, Jr.

I miss the anonymity that comes with New York because everyone around you is so immersed in their own journey. ~ Jordana Brewster

I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress. ~ Nadine Velazquez

I have heard the people dwelling in my land, hall-rulers, say that they had often seen two such mighty stalkers of the marches, spirits of otherwhere, haunting the moors. One of them, as they could know full well, was like unto a woman; the other miscreated being, in the image of man wandered in exile (save that he was larger than any man), whom in the olden time the people named Grendel. They knew not if he ever had a father among the spirits of darkness. They dwell in a hidden land amid wolf-haunted slopes and savage fen-paths, teh wind-swept cliffs where the mountain-stream falleth, shrouded in the mists of the headlands, its flood flowing underground. ~ Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Building your own house is a primal urge, one of those universal genetic drives like the need to provide for your family. ~ Kevin McCloud

We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet - but this carpet is on other side of the planet. ~ Kevin McCloud

Self-builders are the adrenalin junkies of the DIY world; it's the equivalent of base-jumping off the top of the Gherkin to land in a paddling pool. ~ Kevin McCloud

So this is it. This is the Great Escape.
Is it wrong for us to want this? I keep thinking, if there are so many worlds, who decided which one to put us on? No one asked us what we wanted. Don't we have the right to look for something more?
We'll be back; we know we can't stay away forever.
But just for a while ... just for a while. ~ Scott McCloud

I admire anyone that follows the road less travelled. ~ Kevin McCloud

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. ~ Scott McCloud

Tonight he was a firm adherent to the classic McCloud school of thought; plant bugs first, apologize later. ~ Shannon McKenna

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that. ~ Scott McCloud

I like working consistently. I like working for four months at a time, which is why cable was so attractive. You work for four months, and then you get to do something else, whether it's doing a movie or just being at home with your husband and eventually having a family. ~ Jordana Brewster

I'm saying my rosary every day. ~ Jordana Brewster

Generally, elders are among the more reverent members of the Church, but there is no law prescribing their age. ~ William Brewster

There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine. ~ David Brewster

I'm really quite conscious of clothes and the way they fit and don't regret wearing anything. Not even the five-inch stack heels I wore with three-button high-waisters at comprehensive school. Regret is for wimps. ~ Kevin McCloud

Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem the undeserving, Jesus Your name holds everything I need. ~ Lincoln Brewster

I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me. ~ Kevin McCloud

Until there was Piper McCloud.
The probability of a flier is so rare, so completely out of the ordinary, and it was the very thing that Conrad needed to make an escape plan work. The minute he saw that Piper could fly, he knew hope. He carefully plotted and prepared for every eventuality except one
Piper's refusal to leave without the other's.
How can she be so colosally stupid??!! Didn't she understand? ~ Victoria Forester

Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and respect. ~ Karen Witemeyer

I already have a production company called J Squared and we're working on two projects. ~ Jordana Brewster