We discovered very quickly on Gene's Discussion List, and here at the Virtual Studio, that Gene's fans are an incredibly bright and creative bunch with no limits to their interests and pursuits. As with Gene's list, Gene's fans keep this site expanding daily in new directions we couldn't have anticipated when we first started the site. While centered in the Zen that is Gene Colan's art, the site ripples out in ever increasing circles to encompass many other things in this wild & wooly cosmos. Bearing that in mind, Gene & Adrienne have decided to add this quote page to their site. Gene & Adrienne will add quotes here from time to time that they find particulary insightful, inspiring, or just downright amusing. Stop in from time to time to check out the latest pearls of wisdom.
"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."
- Goethe
"Though one should conquer a thousand times a thousand
men in battle, he who conquers his own self, is the greatest of
all conquerers." - Buddha (Dhammapada, verse 103)
"YO!! Adrienne!!!" - Sylvester Stallone (as Rocky)
Dr. Doom: They don't call me the most dangerous man alive for
nothing.
Daredevil: You mean they pay you?
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother
took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
- Shirley Temple
"We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees."
- Jason Kidd (upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks)
"Operator! Give me the number for 911!" - Homer
Simpson
"Beer is the reason we know there's a god and that he
loves us"- Ben Franklin
"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man
to laugh at that man" - Jack Handey
"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a
vegetarian because I hate plants." - A. Whitney Brown
"EGOTIST: A person of low taste more interested in talking
about themselves than about me" - Ambrose Bierce
"If you define cowardice as running away at the first
sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy,
then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward"
- Jack Handey
"Only one of us is going to walk out of here under his
own steam. AND IT WON'T BE ME!!!!!" - Captain America
(while fighting a villain.)
"And now Super-Man I grow bored with this game. My time
is too vauable" - Doctor Octopus (to Spider-Man during
an early battle.)
"A man doesn't automatically earn my respect. He has to
get down in the dirt and beg for it" - Jack Handey
"All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see
that I should have been more specific." - Jane Wagner
"I wish I had a Kryptonite cross, because then you could
keep both Dracula AND Superman away." Jack Handey
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
- George W. Bush
"Once I thought I was wrong but I was mistaken."
- Mike Arnold
"The days were long but the years were short"
- Whitman? Wilde?
"Diplomacy --- the art of saying "Nice doggie"
'til you can find a stick."- Wynn Catlin
"Golf is a good walk spoiled" (Samuel Langhorn
["Mark Twain"] Clemens)
"Any man Who is worth a damn Will never stop being a boy
" - Mark Twain
"Better to be thought a fool than to speak and remove
all doubt" - Mark Twain?
" Hope is a bright leaf growing out of a crack in the
cement." - Gene Colan
"Get your filthy paws off me you damn dirty ape!!!"
- Charlton Heston
"Life is what happens while your busy making other plan"
- Thomas La Mance
" Good judgement comes from experience and experience
comes from bad judgement" - Barry Le Patner
"I would never join any club that would have me as a member"
- Groucho Marx
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep
alone" - Anthony Burgess
"Do I like Kipling??? I don't know, I've never been Kippled."
- Unknown
"If the phone doesn't ring, it's me." - Jimmy
Buffett
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
- George W. Bush
"Man cannot make a worm yet he makes gods by the dozens."
- Montaigne (1553-1592)
"It's better to know some of the questions than all of
the answers." - James Thurber
"If people don't want to buy comics, nobody's gonna stop
them." - Apologies to Yogi Berra
"Eating words has never given me indigestion"
- Winston Churchill
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good
men to stand by and do nothing." - Edmund Burke
"No one on his deathbed ever said 'I wish I spent more
time at the office." - Paul Tsongas
"Don't Promise More Than You Can Deliver; But Always Deliver
More Than You Promise." - Lou Holtz,
"Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would
stay out and your dog would go in". - Mark Twain, a Biography
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got
to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had
learned in seven years." - Mark Twain
"The human race has one really effective weapon, and that
is laughter." - Mark Twain
"Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them."
- Mark Twain
"I'm not a real movie star. I've still got the same wife
I started out with twenty-eight years ago." -Will Rogers
See what will happen if you don't stop biting your fingernails?"
- Will Rogers (to his niece on seeing the Venus de Milo)
"Everybody is ignorant. Only on different subjects."
- Will Rogers
"We choose to go to the Moon, We choose to go to the Moon
in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy,
but because they are hard!" - John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"Madam, You are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober."
- Winston Churchill (in response to being told, "Sir, you
are drunk!")
"In the last few years, we've stumbled. We've stumbled
at the death of the president, the war, and on and on. And when
you stumble a lot, you...you start looking at your feet. You know,
we have to make people lift their eyes back to the horizon and
see the line of ancestors behind us saying, "Make my life
have meaning." And to our inheritors before us saying, "Create
the world we will live in." We're not just...holding jobs
and having dinner. We're in the process of building the future.
That's what Babylon 5 is all about. Only by making people understand
that can we hope to create a better world for ourselves, and our
posterity." - J. Michael Straczynski
"If God had meant man to be naked, he would have been
born that way!" - Jerry Falwell?
"Be not forgetful to entertain strangers for thereby some
have entertained angels unawares" - Hebrews 13:2
"It's better to light a candle then to curse the darkness."
- Carl Sagan
"It's hard to lose your footing when your on your knees."
- Unknown
"The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen
and stupidity." - Harlan Ellison:
"Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings.
Socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston
Churchill