Ryan Hickman Quotes

What is the true cost of a man's mistakes? ~ Jonathan Hickman

Fuck your science, Doctor...
I've got a machine gun. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Ever boy deserves a father. ~ Jonathan Hickman

... forgiveness doesn't have to be synonymous with being a doormat. ~ Shelly Hickman

Don't be ridiculous! Mystic arts be damned, a dog with machine guns is always problematic. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Victoria didn't know why, but something in her daughter's tone put a chill on her arm. ~ Trice Hickman

There is no pain you or anyone could inflict on me worse than the pain I bear within myself. ~ Tracy Hickman

People will forgive a penitent enemy before they forgive a professed friend. ~ Tracy Hickman

newfound power leads to new perspective ~ Jonathan Hickman

Est solarus Oth Mithas ~ Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman

What words are in you that can change the world? ~ Tracy Hickman

'100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff. ~ Jonathan Hickman

An ambitious and beautifully produced fever dream. Don't wake me up, I want to stay in. ~ Jonathan Hickman

The hardest part about changing the new year is changing ourselves. We have to write each day differently than last year's days. If we do, we increase the chances we won't meet with last year's disappointments. Patricia Hickman ~ Patricia Hickman

Perhaps the reassuring thing about grieving is that the process will not be cheated. ~ Martha Whitmore Hickman

Do you know what it's like to find yourself drawn to another person who gives you that missing piece? Who electrifies you with just the sound of his voice? ~ Trice Hickman

In a world of such beauty as birds in flight, surely I can come to feel at home again, even after my loss. ~ Martha Whitmore Hickman

Passing competitors always gives you a lift. It probably has a physical effect, too, because you get a surge of adrenaline. ~ Libbie Hickman

Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother. ~ Dwayne Hickman

Don't seek to be published, seek to be read. ~ Tracy Hickman

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series. ~ Tracy Hickman

...how gracious seem the small gifts that may come - a patch of sunlight on a cold floor, an unexpected gesture of friendship, the fragrant steam of hot tea. ~ Martha Whitmore Hickman

Dobie was so well written and so ahead of its time. ~ Dwayne Hickman

Justice is what the strong do the weak. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Acting in its purest form is an urge from deep in the human psyche to celebrate our aliveness, to act our dreams and fantasies in a public display of our most private selves. ~ Darryl Hickman

When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late. ~ O. S. Hickman

One of the wonderful things about Batman is that he is just a man. He doesn't have superpowers or extraordinary powers other than his tremendous intellect and physical prowess. ~ Tracy Hickman

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture! ~ Dwayne Hickman

I think that between the egos of the actors and the wrestlers in this country we are taking away from the truly dedicated and informed people who should be getting their voice heard. ~ Dwayne Hickman

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well. ~ Dwayne Hickman

Gnawing at the forefront of Victoria's thoughts was the question that Rob had asked--was she dismissing Ted because he was white? She'd always thought herself to be open-minded, but in her romantic relationships, she'd only dated black men. ~ Trice Hickman

-Besides, lead someone down an unknown road and soon there're completely lost without you. I just have to keep the others from interfering for a short while. Any suggestions?
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Kill them.
-Hmmm. Okay. ~ Jonathan Hickman

The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox. ~ Patricia Hickman

I worked on a film short with Frank Sinatra when I was a kid. ~ Dwayne Hickman

One day blacks and whites will come together like the keys of a piano, and be as beautiful as the it makes ~ O. S. Hickman

You can never spend enough time with children. ~ Dwayne Hickman

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Right now I am preparing for another art exhibit in November in Palm Desert. ~ Dwayne Hickman

There's that old cliche that art is never finished, only abandoned. That's the nice thing about comics. It forces you to abandon it long before maybe you're ready to let it go. ~ Jonathan Hickman

There's a thing, Father, where men who have thought they were giants their entire lives actually see one for the first time.

It sparks a reaction.

It shows them their true worth.

It shows them their place. ~ Jonathan Hickman

I do believe that sci-fi or historical fiction finds an easy home in comics because there are no budget constraints in regards to the necessary world-building or visual effects necessary to bring those stories to life in other mediums. ~ Jonathan Hickman

What man in his 40s would not like to look in the mirror and find Nolan Ryan? ~ Nolan Ryan

The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable. ~ Dwayne Hickman

When you come fact to face with love, and before the sun sets, you become someone you didn't used to be. It makes the old things new. Makes dead things live. Love makes you into something better. ~ Jonathan Hickman

I started out hoping to remind people at some point in the novel that we should be loving and kind. But then the theme usurped my life, spilling over into my novels until love was no longer a small voice, but now my purpose as a writer. ~ Patricia Hickman

Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake of serenity but to hear the Voice inside. That is how the storyteller connects with with others--listen, write, share. ~ Patricia Hickman

I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Raistlin opened his eyes, looking at her without recognition. And in them, she saw deep, undying sorrow
the look of one who has been permitted to enter a realm of deadly, perilous beauty, and who now finds himself, once more, cast down into the grey, rain-swept world. ~ Tracy Hickman

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control. ~ Jonathan Hickman

Noble words, my friend; you can't drink them or wrap them around your feet or burn them in your firepit or give them to children crying in hunger ... They will cry for a month, then they will eat his share of the food. And wouldn't he want it that way? ~ Tracy Hickman

Yu come face to face with love, and before the sun sets you've become someone you didn't used to be...

It's the reason a wolf would chase a crow, even knowing he can't fly and she don't ever need to touch the ground. ~ Jonathan Hickman

You're either on team Republican or team Democrat, and it's the idea that one of these sides has a perfect record of being correct and is worth supporting on 100% of the causes. I find that kind of thinking extremely dangerous and very intellectually dishonest. ~ Jonathan Hickman

I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make a good living at doing it, and not doing the traditional sort of mainstream fare. ~ Jonathan Hickman

As for inflicting our sorrow on other people, one does not want to go around blathering and crying all the time. But perhaps it is our gift to others to trust them enough to share our feelings with them. It may help them deal with some of their own. ~ Martha Whitmore Hickman

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling. ~ Jonathan Hickman

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment. ~ Tracy Hickman

It was forbidden and wrong on the most basic of levels. But in that moment, we gave zero fucks. ~ Kendall Ryan

What dress to wear? What boy's offer to accept to the prom? What college to attend? Which academic major to pursue? -- Those were the kinds of decisions he saw in Alexandria's future. Not what race she would claim? The thought pissed him off, and the fact that he knew there was little he could do frustrated him. ~ Trice Hickman

I have no need for riches, Highness. I can't be bought either. ~ Anthony Ryan

A man doesn't know his true strength until he fears for his life ~ Anthony Ryan

I've always been fascinated by the Norsemen, their lives, history and cosmology. The more we study them the more interesting they become ... breaking their own stereotypes. We usually think of them as barbarians, but there were aspects to their society that shows a tremendous level of civilization, sophistication and social advance. ~ Tracy Hickman

A man chooses...a slave obeys. ~ Andrew Ryan

The thing that probably trips me up the most are people getting tattoos of stuff that I've designed in my books. That always spins me out in a weird way. It seems like such a permanent commitment to something I've done. I don't know that I could do that for anyone else. ~ Jonathan Hickman

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad. ~ Jonathan Hickman

A book's value rests in the knowledge it contains, and knowledge is ever a dangerous thing. ~ Anthony Ryan

One of the bravest thing a child can do is dream, and
believe it is truly possible.
Brittney Ryan ~ Brittney Ryan

If you're not still learning, you're already dying." Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 104 ~ Ryan Holiday

Some people build houses, buildings. I don't. I build stories. ~ Ryan Mark, Author ~ Ryan Mark

A woman of keen mind but no moral scruple whatever. And an occasionally violent temper. Just how many time did you stab that merchant, Derla? I forget. ~ Anthony Ryan

We will learn that though we think big, we must act and live small in order to accomplish what we seek." Ryan Holliday, Ego is the Enemy, pg 22 ~ Ryan Holiday

Nature has a voice (...) Learn to hear it and you'll never be lost and no man will ever take you unawares. ~ Anthony Ryan

Because of sorrow, my awareness of life's pulse is strongly detectable. It is syncopation while I journey, a lap of ocean in the eyes of every person I meet. This awareness informs the flesh of my stories. Grief has been an odd companion, at first a terror, but now I am all the better having accepted it for its intrinsic worth. ~ Patricia Hickman

We write for reasons beyond that which we can see at the time of pen touching paper. ~ Ryan Mark, Author of Tremor ~ Ryan Mark

Leadership is not learned by watching your brothers beat each other bloody. Nor is it learned by letting them fail their tests. ~ Anthony Ryan

And I've got admirers. Okay, probably drunken geeks with nothing better to do than scroll through a thousand videos to check out cleavage shots in slow-mo, but still. ~ Jeanne Ryan

In a world were everyone is different, what can we call normal? ~ Ryan

There were many forms of betrayal. Betrayal of friends. Comrades. Even life. ~ Hollow Ryan

One day, I will have to decide to help myself. And only I will be capable of doing so. ~ Hollow Ryan

Wait!" I called. Too loud. All around me, the trees seemed to be listening, injured at hearing such a loud voice when they had been used to whispers and silence. ~ Hollow Ryan

'Wayne of Gotham' is very much a father-and-son exploration. We've always seen Thomas Wayne through the years as this figure carved in marble; this perfect man. The only thing we really know about is that he died in that alley outside of a theater. But every son has to confront the reality of his father at some point in his life. ~ Tracy Hickman

The Dark is a word for the ignorant. The people hare are Gifted. Different powers, different abilities. But Gifted. Like you. ~ Anthony Ryan

The world was not just moving. It was alive.
And it was ready to fight. ~ Ryan Graudin

Is that what I've been doing all these years? cutting my path though life? All the blood spilled and lives taken, just verses in a song? ~ Anthony Ryan

So dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of comprehension. Our lives, the lives of the living will go on. The sun shines, the moons rise, we will laugh and talk, and he will know nothing, feel nothing. Nothing.
So final. It will come to us all. It will come to me. ~ Tracy Hickman

Desert winds blow hard at me
Till we reach the shining sea.
And borne away across the waves
My lover's life I'll sail to save. ~ Anthony Ryan

My life for your life.' That means while we live, we share the joy of living with each other. 'My death for your life.' I would be willing to lay down my life to save yours. 'My life for your death.' I will spend my life avenging your death, if I can't prevent it. 'My death for your death.' A part of me will die when you do. ~ Tracy Hickman

But she knows, now, there's no escape from the monsters. They'll always be there; you just choose to live with them or not. ~ Carrie Ryan

Magick is based on faith. It is the belief that the part of the Gods inside of us is strong enough to do godly work. ~ Hollow Ryan

Kill a fly in the past and it may drastically change your future. ~ Ryan Higa

Silently, as was our habit, Nathan and I walked to the end of Old Grove Road where a lake was dug into the earth, holding mystery upon mystery beneath its glassy surface. ~ Hollow Ryan

She didn't like seeing it, Vaelin realised. Didn't like seeing the killer in me. ~ Anthony Ryan

My brother plays guitar and base and writes. His name is Chase Ryan. ~ Debby Ryan

You are the best decision my heart ever made. ~ Kennedy Ryan

I much prefer the colors dancing in my mind. ~ Carrie Ryan

Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive. ~ Ryan Holiday

He wants to make an end. And we will. ~ Anthony Ryan

Reading kicks God's balls in the ass! ~ Johnny Ryan

we cannot be humble except by enduring humiliations." How ~ Ryan Holiday

Chaos was inevitable. Might as well roll with it ~ Ryan Graudin

If you are anything like me, that sucks. ~ Ryan Higa