Rick Remender Quotes

What is so broken about me? So unlikable? Why does it still hurt? ~ Rick Remender

The seeds for the Descendants were planted in Uncanny X-Force, but I always conceived them as being bigger than just that book. ~ Rick Remender

Baby, your rhymes get me going. ~ Rick Remender

Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds. ~ Rick Remender

I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with. ~ Rick Remender

Enough rationalization. They simply had what you wanted, so you took it.

[My chair-- I shit on my good chair!]

You shit more than just your chair.

You shit the world. All you ever cared about was winning -- And you did.

The last man standing on a mountain of filth [. . .]

Kazumi taught forgiveness. She accepted all refugees looking for a better life. And you turned that against her.

Kazumi would show mercy.

I'm not Kazumi. ~ Rick Remender

I think that people who don't mind reading find the immersion and their ability to get into a deeper place with the story to be satisfying. That's the kind of reader I want. ~ Rick Remender

Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think it should be made, pure creative freedom, purity of intention, with no boundaries. ~ Rick Remender

Life is a series of unique opportunities.
It's our job to find the happiness in each one. ~ Rick Remender

It is all too easy to give ourselves over to the traumas of the past -- allowing pain to define us. There is a medicine for that -- hope and perseverance. Light brings light. And no matter what we face there is one thing we can control: our outlook. It's not about ignoring the pain, or mindlessly believing things will simply be better -- it's about finding the joy in participating. And when the weight of the past pulls us low we must find the strength to release it ... and finally give ourselves permission to start over. ~ Rick Remender

She's out of my league, but if she has herpes ...
That puts us in the same league!
The herpes league! ~ Rick Remender

Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis. ~ Rick Remender

Go ahead, kill me! But live with this: All those people die!

For the rest of your life, somewhere behind the feeds, that human part of you hiding down deep will always wonder how much pain you could have prevented if you hadn't been so weak! ~ Rick Remender

In my experience a boy will change his goal from unobtainable to obtainable once he realizes which is which.
"By that logic you should settle for me."
"Doesn't work for girls. We want what we can't have. ~ Rick Remender

There are only three kinds of people. LEADERS. Those who take charge, build, inspire, and create. FOLLOWERS. Those who support leaders and work to achieve mutually beneficial goals ... [and] DESTROYERS. Destroyers cannot find it within themselves to follow anyone, their hatred and insecurity is too pure to see strength in any OTHER being. The utterly lack the ability to inspire or create, so they do the only thing left to them
they tear down all they come in contact with. ~ Rick Remender

It's much harder to say "I'm going to kill three of the biggest characters in your universe in a gruesome bloodbath." There can be a lot of differing opinions in a mainstream comic book, you know? "Rogue would never do this!" But I can say, "No, Rogue suffered the death of Charles Xavier and it broke her down and she stumbled into a dark place and she started fixating on the Scarlet Witch as the cause of it all" - which, there is a logical chain of events that lead to the Scarlet Witch. And in the confusion, she thought Wanda was up to doing it again and she did what she thought was best. ~ Rick Remender

All these years! All this time with us
have you learned nothing?!
You only live by the grace of our clan's tenet of forgiveness!
Your judgement is shit!
Rectitude is the bone that gives firmness and stature. Without decency, neither talent nor learning can make the human frame into a samurai. ~ Rick Remender

You always romanticize the past as soon as the future begins to frighten you. ~ Rick Remender

Depression is a big fucked-up monster. Everyone gets a turn, whether or not they want to own up to it. It's a hard fight that fucks you top to bottom. Drains you hollow. And when you're finally rid of it, there's something about having overcome it that robs you of compassion. ~ Rick Remender

The difference between old friends and new friends is that new friends just haven't let you down yet.
She told me that everyone has let her down ...
... except for me.
And all I could think was, give me time. ~ Rick Remender

Folks believe the side of the story that suits 'em. ~ Rick Remender

Sometimes, remembering a moment in your life can physically hurt as you relive everything that mattered to you then, and realize how far gone it is now. ~ Rick Remender

Ideology is masturbation, a jerk-off afforded to those few privileged with time on their hands and no wolves at the door. ~ Rick Remender

But it's all a diversion. A card-house waiting to topple. ~ Rick Remender

Final Execution is Wolverine's spotlight arc. He goes through a crazy thing here. I think the fear with him is that he's in so many books that his growth can become stagnant. He ends this story in a very different place. ~ Rick Remender

Happiness is just the absence of pain. It's the best I can hope for. ~ Rick Remender

Rush life like a yellow light. ~ Rick Remender

Betsy: "You bring nothing but trouble!"
Fantomex: "Forgive me if this has inconvenienced your plans for afternoon tea, Miss Braddock. Cyborgs killed my mother and stole from me. ~ Rick Remender

Shit, man, democracy failed before it started.

Who thought it was a good idea to let the masses of fucktards decide anything?

[Guess I've got more faith in people.]

People? The election of 2044 -- Curls Bellberry, a boy band presidency on the platform that the Earth is flat and that he'd nuke New York to save Social Security. There's a good reason he was the last president.

Problem with letting people pick a leader is they gravitate towards confident sociopaths no matter how stupid they are.

It's the perception of qualification that fools people.

At least by having corporate executives rule us we get folks who are good at business.

Life hurts, the world is fucked, and that's not going to change. . . ~ Rick Remender

It takes time to see anyone's real damage. ~ Rick Remender

The Brotherhood of Evil Mutants has a huge plan that stems from the earlier issues of Uncanny X-Force. Archangel's fall was really the smaller consequence from killing the child Apocalypse. This is the big consequence. ~ Rick Remender

Civility is just lying to people about your true feelings. Hiding for personal gain.
Popular people, well, they're just the best liars. ~ Rick Remender

Titles are just constructs to help us label one another to quickly assess what someone is worth without thinking too much. ~ Rick Remender

Chaykin's Shadow is a modern legend at his best. ~ Rick Remender

Bushido refers not only to martial rectitude but personal rectitude. We understand that in serving each other we serve our own interests.
In serving our world, our world serves us. Allowing us to live in harmony with it. ~ Rick Remender

I think the biggest mistake you can make in creator owned work is having info-dumps like, "Here's how this world works!" It's just like someone playing dungeon master and boring me with the backstory of their f***ing world. Just bring me into you story and get it cooking. ~ Rick Remender

People want to feel good, be entertained, eat salty shit, and cum twice a week, and provided they do they'll stay quiet. ~ Rick Remender

One cannot grow beauty in the soil of hate and pain. ~ Rick Remender

Hope is a lie that becomes true ~ Rick Remender

It is only in God that we discover our origin, our identity, our meaning, our purpose, our significance, and our destiny. Every other path leads to a dead end. ~ Rick Warren

Would have to make sure this guy never met Sadie. They'd probably take turns insulting me for the rest of eternity. A little help here? ~ Rick Riordan

I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there. ~ Rick Moody

My most humiliating thought:Medea would capture me,try to strip away my divine power and find I didn't have any left.
What is this? she would scream. There's nothing here but Lester!
Then she would kill me anyway. ~ Rick Riordan

(By the way, I would not recommend stuffing your pillow with vulture feathers. They're not very comfy.) ~ Rick Riordan

Athena's sacred plant was the olive tree, since that was her big gift to the Athenians. Her sacred animals were the owl and the snake. Supposedly, the owl was a symbol of wisdom from the heavens. The snake symbolized wisdom from the earth. Me, I never understood that. If owls were so wise, why would they go around asking Who? all the time, like they couldn't remember their own names? Snakes have never struck me as very smart, either; but apparently the Greeks thought that when snakes hissed, they were whispering important secrets. Yeah, that's right, Mr. Greek Dude. Hold that rattlesnake a little closer to your ear. He's got something to tell you. ~ Rick Riordan

When you have a kid and people go, 'What a beautiful child,' it's the same kind of reaction when you play a song that people recognize and love. ~ Rick Springfield

I am wary of sequels. I understand them from the studio's point of view, but the audience doesn't want more, they want better, and I thought the second 'Ghostbusters' was not very effective, it did not really work, so there's no reason to believe a third would. I'm more interested in new things. ~ Rick Moranis

Did he get blasted to tiny pieces? ~ Rick Riordan

Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint it a different color, tear it down and build something new, or do anything they want. ~ Rick Riordan

There's a gray area between Conservative and Orthodox people, for whom you don't screw around with the mezuzah, you don't mess with the holy melodies. ~ Rick Moranis

Scranton describing Sen. Robert A. Taft's conservatism as compared to Goldwater's said Taft was a conservative in the truest sense of the word. He sought to conserve all the human values that have been carried down to us on a long stream of American history. He saw history as the foundation on which a better future might be built, not a Technicolor fantasy behind which the problems of the present might be concealed. ~ Rick Perlstein

I tried to talk to Annabeth, but she was acting like I'd just punched her grandmother. ~ Rick Riordan

Ah. And then you kill him."
"No," Arkwright replied patiently. "We are British. We avoid murder if we can help it.{...} ~ Rick Yancey

A good artist must be good at many things. ~ Rick Riordan

I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period. ~ Rick Wakeman

I was five steps away when he called, "Perseus."
I turned.
There was a different light in his eyes, a fiery kind of pride. "You did well, Perseus. Do not misunderstand me. Whatever else you do, know that you are mine. You are a true son of the Sea God. ~ Rick Riordan

Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self. ~ Rick Astley

Gods ... Nico. Over the past few days, every time Jason sacrificed a portion of a meal to Jupiter, he prayed to his dad to help Nico. That kid had gone through so much, and yet he had volunteered for the most difficult job: transporting the Athena Parthenos statue to Camp Half-Blood. ~ Rick Riordan

I really like the challenge of working with different kinds of music. I feel like my role is really like a coach, so I feel like I can do my job for different kinds of music that may not necessarily be what I listen to. ~ Rick Rubin

Sassy the basset hound sat up on the seat and yawned. Her tongue rolled into a long bologna canoe. She did a little shuffle on her front paws and snorted. Maybe it was a friendly greeting. Maybe she was having a doggie coronary. ~ Rick Riordan

I don't know, maybe imminent peril made him feel more alive somehow, for the same reason zombies are carnivores with only one item on the menu. You never heard of undead vegetarians. Where's the challenge in attacking a plate of asparagus? ~ Rick Yancey

Relationships are always worth restoring. ~ Rick Warren

Jesus specialized in menial tasks that everyone else tried to avoid: washing feet, helping children, fixing breakfast, and serving lepers. Nothing was beneath him, because he came to serve. It wasn't in spite of his greatness that he did these things, but because of it, and he expects us to follow his example. ~ Rick Warren

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling. "That's more like it," Nico said. "Let's turn this tide! ~ Rick Riordan

If you want to be used by God, you must care about what God cares about, what he cares about most is the redemption of the people he made. ~ Rick Warren

I lost hope when I saw the horses' teeth.
As I got closer to the fence, I held my shirt over my nose to block the smell. One stallion waded through the muck and whinnied angrily at me. He bared his teeth, which were pointed like a bear's.
I tried to talk to him in my mind. I can do that with most horses.
Hi, I told him. I'm going to clean your stables. Won't that be great?
Yes! The horse said. Come inside! Eat you! Tasty half-blood!
But I'm Poseidon's son, I protested. He created horses.
Usually this gets me VIP treatment in the equestrian world, but not this time.
Yes! The horse agreed enthusiastically. Poseidon can come in, too! We will eat you both! Seafood! ~ Rick Riordan

Out my left, I saw baboon bum, out my right, my long-lost uncle Amos. Naturally, I decided to focus on the right. ~ Rick Riordan

I'm building a dream with elevators in it. ~ Rick Ross

I thought maybe she'd whisk us off by magic, or at least hail a taxi. Instead, Bast borrowed a silver Lexus convertible.
"Oh, yes," she purred. "I like this one! Come along, children."
"But this isn't yours," I pointed out.
"My dear, I'm a cat. Everything I see is mine." She touched the ignition and the keyhole sparked. The engine began to purr. [No, Sadie. Not like a cat, like an engine.] ~ Rick Riordan

I made this list of stuff that it's time for me to try to do. ~ Rick Moody

Rick, I'll tell you what. Ten thousand bucks? Ten thousand dollar bet? ~ Mitt Romney

I will not have them punished," Artemis said. "I will have them rewarded. If we destroy heroes who do us a great favor, then we are no better than the Titans. If this is Olympian justice, I will have none of it."
Calm down, sis," Apollo said. "Jeez, you need to lighten up."
Don't call me sis! I will reward them. ~ Rick Riordan

We could even provide entertainment. You could sing and I could, like, randomly burst into flames. Calypso laughed - ~ Rick Riordan

That's it?" Nico demanded. "Hecate sent us halfway across Italy so you could tell us to eat barley? ~ Rick Riordan

If one piddles correctly, time just goes away, without regret on the part of the piddler, or even any particular notice. ~ Rick Bragg

I wanted my students to leave my classroom loving reading and wanting to read more, and if they left my classroom thinking that reading is boring, then I haven't done my job. ~ Rick Riordan

I wanted to get angry, this guy pushed me so hard. ~ Rick Riordan

I was thinking about that, about what lines you'd be willing to cross if someone took your loved one or child. ~ Rick Yune

The doctor was a private man, engaged in a dark and dangerous business, and could ill afford the prying eyes and gossiping tongue of the servant class. ~ Rick Yancey

Tears welled in his eyes. It was like watching chocolate melt. ~ Rick Yancey

I'm not ashamed to be a Christian. But you don't have to be in the pew every Sunday to know that there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. ~ Rick Perry

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader. ~ Rick Larsen

Now, you'll have to answer my questions."
"Oh, very well," Set said. "I like Brazil for the World Cup. I'd advise investing in platinum and small-cap funds. And your lucky numbers this week are 2, 13
"
"Not those questions!" Menshikov snapped. ~ Rick Riordan

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. "A trap?"
"Probably," Frank said.
"She's not mortal," Hedge said, sniffing the air. "Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus."
"No doubt," Percy agreed.
"Awesome." Hedge grinned. "Let's go. ~ Rick Riordan

he didn't look as good as Piper had last night after she'd suddenly been transformed. ~ Rick Riordan