Nate Powell Quotes

My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters. ~ Nate Powell

Comics creators are generally screwed in life: Most of us who are fortunate enough to do comics full time - which is very few of us - will literally draw until we die because we have no employment structures intact for retirement, much less insurance! ~ Nate Powell

There are constant challenges in the drawing process, especially in a period piece, and therein lay the fun. ~ Nate Powell

I am filled with uncertainty and fear when thinking about how my two daughters will grow into this world as Hoosiers, as Americans, as women and free thinkers. ~ Nate Powell

There's a beast in all of us, you know,' Jasper said.
'No,' Tessa said.
'Yes, a monster right inside of us all,' Jasper said.
They wondered what theirs looked like. They faced each other and blinked while making faces to try to capture the phantom. ~ Cecil Castellucci

The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself. ~ Nate Powell

Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence. ~ Nate Powell

The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch. ~ Nate Powell

We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing. ~ Nate Powell

Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that. ~ Nate Powell

In carrying on this hipster virus I live a locust-like existence, exhausting and shedding myself in ruination from one life to the next. ~ Nate Powell

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback. ~ Nate Powell

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text. ~ Nate Powell

'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart. ~ Nate Powell

Nate liked money. It was a sleek and clever invention, beautiful in the way it lubricated power and focused people's attention. But it had a clumsy, brutal side, too. Money bludgeoned people without it into silence, shut them away in neighborhoods like this. ~ Scott Westerfeld

Apart from the fact that any hardy exercise conduces much to the training and formation of a soldier, pig-sticking tends to give a man what is called a 'stalker's eye,' but which, par excellence, is the soldier's eye. ~ Robert Baden-Powell

The United States has every intention of continuing to do the kind of reconnaissance and surveillance work we have done for decades, well known to everyone, that is essential to protect our national security, and frankly, the security of our friends in various regions of the world. It is part of our collection system. ~ Colin Powell

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer is "no." That's not America. ~ Colin Powell

As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be. ~ Sarah Dessen

Parker and Hardison look like they're having a good time."
"I see," Nate said. "Should we be worried? ~ Greg Cox

Once in a way, for a brief instant of time, the subconscious fantasies of the mind seem to overflow, so that we make, in our waking moments, assumptions as outrageous and incredible as those thoughts and acts which provide the commonplace of dreams. ~ Anthony Powell

Each of us is a product of all our experiences and all our interactions with other people. ~ Colin Powell

Romantic ideas about the way life is lived are often to be found in persons themselves fairly coarse-grained. ~ Anthony Powell

The passages seemed catacombs of a hell assigned to the subdued regret of those who had lacked in life the income to which they felt themselves entitled; this suspicion that the two houses were an abode of the dead being increased by the fact that no one was ever to be seen about, even at the reception desk. ~ Anthony Powell

That answer was such a simple one that I could not imagine why I had not guessed it without having to be told. Those very obvious tactical victories are always the victories least foreseen by the onlooker, still less the opponent. ~ Anthony Powell

I don't write anything if I'm not agreeable and liking it. I'm not one of these slavers who wads up paper. It comes or it doesn't. ~ Padgett Powell

Respect for leaders by followers can't be mandated; it must be earned. It has to be given to leaders by their followers. ~ Colin Powell

As the statistician George E. P. Box wrote, "All models are wrong, but some models are useful." What he meant by that is that all models are simplifications of the universe, as they must necessarily be. As another mathematician said, "The best model of a cat is a cat."
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The key is in remembering that a model is a tool to help us understand the complexities of the universe, and never a substitute for the universe itself. ~ Nate Silver

Possibly the best suggestion in condensed form, as to how to live, was given by my old Headmaster, Dr. Haig Brown, in 1904, when he wrote his Recipe for Old Age. A diet moderate and spare, Freedom from base financial care, Abundant work and little leisure, A love of duty more than pleasure, An even and contented mind In charity with all mankind, Some thoughts too sacred for display In the broad light of common day, A peaceful home, a loving wife, Children, who are a crown of life; These lengthen out the years of man Beyond the Psalmist's narrow span. ~ Robert Baden-Powell

A man shouldn't be measured by looks, attire, or finances.
A man should be measured by his character, actions, and intelligence.
-Nate Spears ~ Nate Spears

But you worship money, Nate. You're part of a culture where everything is measured by money. It's a religion. ~ John Grisham

I used to wonder why ... Mum kept having babies ... that was the only pleasure poor people could afford . It cost nothing
at least at the time when you were actually making the children. The fact that it would cost you something later on, well, the working-class people never looked ahead in those days. ~ Margaret Powell

I love that after a day when nothing is sure, and when I say 'nothing' I mean nothing, you can come home and absolutely know that if you add egg yolks to chocolate and sugar and milk, it will get thick. It's such a comfort. ~ Julie Powell

She would like to be on a train named Nightfall going to some place where she'd be twenty-five years old. ~ Dawn Powell

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. ~ Robert Baden-Powell

We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best. ~ Nate Ruess

I loved my mother. It took me a long time to forgive her for leaving us. It took me an even longer time to forgive my father for his part in making her leave. But I did, because when it comes down to it… you either die alone, surrounded by the ghosts of all the people who ever let you down, or you live a life full of flawed people whose imperfections you've made a choice to overlook. I don't know about you but if given the choice, I'll pick the imperfections every time. I choose understanding over resentment, love over hate, forgiveness over loneliness.' I look at Parker. 'Some of us are still working on the forgiveness part.'
His eyes are still red, but his lips tug up in a half smile.
I take a deep breath. 'You don't get to pick your family. You don't get to choose the people who work their way into your heart and build a home there.' My eyes move to Nate. 'And life is too damn short not to spend it with the people who matter. Not to say I love you when you still can. Not to hold each other close and admit, out loud, You matter to me. My life wouldn't be the same without you. ~ Julie Johnson

The good thing about a film, or at least the films I've been a part of, is, no matter what happens in the end, you do the premiere and everyone's excited. You don't remember the rough times. ~ Nate Parker

However, at that stage in the walk one of those curious changes took place in circumstances of mutual intercourse that might almost be compared, scientifically speaking, with the addition in the laboratory of one chemical to another, by which the whole nature of the experiment is altered: perhaps even an explosion brought about. ~ Anthony Powell

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast. ~ Nate Silver

If forced to offer an exposé of any given situation, he was always in favour of presenting the substance of what he had to say in terms more or less oracular. Nothing in life – such was his view – must ever be thought of as easy of access. There is something to be said for that approach. Certainly few enough things in life are easy. On the other hand, human affairs can become even additionally clouded with obscurity if the most complicated forms of definition are always deliberately sought. ~ Anthony Powell

Vigorous Scout games are the best form of physical education because most of them bring in moral education. ~ Baden Powell De Aquino

You have to give the electorate a tune they can whistle. ~ Enoch Powell

I love linen in soothing colors for any room in the house. ~ Nate Berkus

Maybe you've got the patience to work out some complicated, long-term, ironic way to get back at the people who've wronged you, but that's you. ~ Greg Cox