Will Eisner quote: "It's very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I'm writing to someone, and I'm desperately eager to achieve believability."

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic f...
WILL EISNER

The term "comics" long ago became obsolete and inaccurate. It merely defined the content of the earl...
WILL EISNER

I did not have the dreams that the other artists working with me had, of 'moving uptown,' becoming a...
WILL EISNER

Comics, which are really best described as an arrangement of images in a sequence that tell a story ...
WILL EISNER

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what peop...
WILL EISNER

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.
WILL EISNER

Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I wa...
WILL EISNER

I believe that — in spite of this courageous, not comic but tragic book by Will Eisner — the sto...
WILL EISNER

I've spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of hist...
WILL EISNER

You can't talk about heartbreak to a kid.
WILL EISNER

A key to my thinking has always been the almost fanatical belief that what I was engaged in was a li...
WILL EISNER

In comics, images are generally impressionistic. Usually, they are rendered with economy in order to...
WILL EISNER

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports...
WILL EISNER

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbi...
WILL EISNER

All professionals should teach at some time in their career because they are obliged to pass on what...
WILL EISNER

The great depression left a mark on all of the civilized world. It was a defining moment like a gian...
WILL EISNER

The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
WILL EISNER

The work we do is as demanding as any of the great painters because nothing that happens on the page...
WILL EISNER

In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips,...
WILL EISNER

Superheroes are mostly aimed at young teen-age males concerned with their manhood. The medium will h...
WILL EISNER

Memory is a very amorphous thing. It is selective and shaped by emotion . . . people are constantly ...
WILL EISNER

If it's not growing, it's going to die.
MICHAEL EISNER

Many people you think are individual achievers in fact have either a strong spousal partner over man...
MICHAEL EISNER

It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetim...
MICHAEL EISNER

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested i...
MICHAEL EISNER

There's a fine line between what would characterize you as a troglodyte and what would character...
MICHAEL EISNER

I grew up Jewish. I am Jewish. I went to an Episcopal high school. I went to a Baptist college. I...
MICHAEL EISNER

Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering...
MICHAEL EISNER

Graduate school is a place to hide for a couple of years.
MICHAEL EISNER

A company that pays attention to the family unit is a successful company. We don't isolate the f...
MICHAEL EISNER

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, an...
MICHAEL EISNER

Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the ...
KURT EISNER

We would make an unbeatable team [to Michael Ovitz]
MICHAEL EISNER

Thanks to his deep understanding of the company and its founders, talking to Card was the next-best ...
MICHAEL EISNER

What I'm pretty sure is, it is not going to be a No. 1 bestseller for 26 weeks, ... And I'm also pre...
MICHAEL EISNER

My strength is coming up with two outs in the last of the ninth.
MICHAEL EISNER

Well, when you're trying to create things that are new, you have to be prepared to be on the edge of...
MICHAEL EISNER

These assets are completely complementary to our existing holdings, and they all go to Disney's
MICHAEL EISNER

I don't think individual achievement in business is the most meaningful way for it to operate.
MICHAEL EISNER

Although our third-quarter earnings were not as favorable as those of the prior year, I am pleased w...
MICHAEL EISNER

I made sure my tenure did not end until Hong Kong Disneyland opened and several other things were wr...
MICHAEL EISNER

The devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina is simply heartbreaking and our thoughts are with t...
MICHAEL EISNER

There's no good idea that can't be improved on.
MICHAEL EISNER

We've had a bright year, ... We are seeing improvement across key financial measures, but we are not...
MICHAEL EISNER

There has been (talk on Wall Street) that major media companies are out of favor. I have seen this c...
MICHAEL EISNER

While we cannot determine or predict the timing of a return to normalcy, we are focused on those fac...
MICHAEL EISNER

It means understanding that different kinds of oppression are interlinked, and that one can't libera...
SHIRI EISNER

Art is literacy of the heart.
ELLIOT EISNER

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic...
MICHAEL EISNER

We have a great new CEO. I've known him a decade and he understands broadcasting. He understands the...
MICHAEL EISNER

It has been a fantastic ride for the past 20 years. Ups and downs, to be sure, but filled with great...
MICHAEL EISNER

Net income for the first three quarters of 2005 is nearly equal to all of 2004,
MICHAEL EISNER

Manheim is proud to sponsor the Automotive Woman of the Year Award.
DEAN EISNER

The M Awards are a tribute to the management teams and the employees working at the winning auctions...
DEAN EISNER

We have inadvertently designed a system in which being good at what you do as a teacher is not forma...
ELLIOT EISNER

The performance of GO.com continues to reflect the nascent stage of both the Internet economy and ou...
MICHAEL EISNER

He has the ability to calm me down, ... He's a solution junkie.
MICHAEL EISNER

I regret Sandy's decision, but I accept it and respect his desire to pursue new ventures,
MICHAEL EISNER

The new Store has a fresh and clean look that offers a number of advantages: it is a much more flexi...
MICHAEL EISNER

Balanced emotions are crucial to intuitive decision making.
MICHAEL D. EISNER

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL

I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH

When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.
WILL SMITH

In my mind, I've always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y'all just didn't know yet.
WILL SMITH

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.
WILL SMITH

I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly abo...
WILL SMITH

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and ...
WILL SMITH

I don't know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like ...
WILL SMITH

We all want to be in love and find that person who is going to love us no matter how our feet smell,...
WILL SMITH

Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that.
WILL SMITH

I want the world to be better because I was here.
WILL SMITH

So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life.
WILL SMITH

Life is lived on the edge.
WILL SMITH

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who d...
WILL SMITH

The first step is you have to say that you can.
WILL SMITH

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.
WILL ROGERS

Do the best you can, and don't take life too serious.
WILL ROGERS

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doin...
WILL SMITH

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.
WILL DURANT

Don't let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.
WILL ROGERS

The farmer has to be an optimist or he wouldn't still be a farmer.
WILL ROGERS

I really feel like the sky is the limit. I'm a dreamer, and I dream in full vivid color HD.
WILL PACKER

I'm a student of patterns. At heart, I'm a physicist. I look at everything in my life as try...
WILL SMITH

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.
WILL DURANT

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
WILL DURANT

And where I excel is ridiculous, sickening, work ethic. You know, while the other guy's sleeping...
WILL SMITH

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.
WILL ROGERS

I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some...
WILL SELF

I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane o...
WILL SMITH

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th...
WILL SMITH

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I coul...
WILL SMITH

I am the black sheep of my family. They are all super talented and intelligent and got proper jobs. ...
WILL POULTER

It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent...
WILL SELF

One of the most heartening phenomena in today's Britain is the great diversity of the modern ner...
WILL SELF

The funny guy doesn't get the girl until later in life. High school, college, everyone still wan...
WILL FERRELL

I think the greatest all-around athlete ever was Jim Brown. He played lacrosse, basketball and ran t...
WILL MCDONOUGH

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
WILL ROGERS

One of my first memories of being a kid was, 'I want to have a real job when I grow up.' And...
WILL FERRELL

I just felt that I might to go to university and get some real life. It wasn't stimulating in th...
WILL POULTER

Somehow I got a place at Bristol University. I'm still waiting for the phone call to say that th...
WILL POULTER

My youngest brother and I went on a ten-day canoe trip in Bowron Provincial Park in British Columbia...
WILL HOBBS

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody a chance to get...
WILL ROGERS

I have no Politics. I am for the Party that is out of Power, no matter which one it is. But I will g...
WILL ROGERS

When I die, my epitaph or whatever you call those signs on gravestones is going to read: I joked abo...
WILL ROGERS

Here it is, a New Year. We got to make some resolutions, as well as interest and tax payments in thi...
WILL ROGERS

Everybody is ignorant only on different subjects.
WILL ROGERS

Lord, the money we do spend on Government and its not one bit better than the government we got for ...
WILL ROGERS

There is no credit to being a comedian, when you have the whole Government working for you. All you ...
WILL ROGERS

We can make this thing into a Party, instead of a Memory.
WILL ROGERS

Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS

I am not a member of any organized partyI am a Democrat.
WILL ROGERS

And kid Congress and the Senate, dont scold em. They are just children thats never grown up. They do...
WILL ROGERS

I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that Iv...
WILL ROGERS

I never met a man I didn't like.
WILL ROGERS

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a ...
GEORGE WILL

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about hi...
GEORGE WILL

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through t...
GEORGE WILL

Joy comes from using your potential.
WILL SCHULTZ

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
WILL DURANT

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds
WILL ROGERS

To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell.
WILL CARLETON

But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, When we lock up our lives for wealth, t...
WILL CARLETON

The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of busi...
WILL CARLETON

Overall, I think Michael Jordan is the greatest athlete in any particular sport. He dominated the ga...
WILL MCDONOUGH

I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious...
WILL SMITH

Never trust a duck.
WILL HERONDALE

By the time I was ready for college, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I think I secretly wante...
WILL FERRELL

Lobbyists have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells Cong...
WILL ROGERS

As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
WILL SELF

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committ...
GEORGE WILL

Saturday Night Live is such a comedy boot camp in a way, because you get to work with so many differ...
WILL FERRELL

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse ...
WILL ROGERS

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
WILL ROGERS

I've been collecting articles on extremophile bacteria for at least the last ten years. I find t...
WILL HOBBS

You can't legislate intelligence and common sense into people.
WILL ROGERS

It's great to be great, but it's greater to be human.
WILL ROGERS

I have always said that a conference was held for one reason only, to give everybody chance to get s...
WILL ROGERS

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the q...
WILL DURANT

Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it.
WILL ROGERS

Do anything in this world but monkey with somebody eles's religion. What reasoning of conceit makes ...
WILL ROGERS

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.
WILL ROGERS

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.
WILL ROGERS

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth somet...
WILL CHAMPION

Someone. Everyone. Anyone. No-one. One. One can't be everyone, but there isn't more than one everyon...
WILL ADVISE

Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet.
WILL ROGERS

I need to try and get away from that brat role, or people are going to think I'm a natural brat.
WILL POULTER

Having no applicable skills, in any possible area whatsoever, effectively makes me the master of red...
WILL ADVISE

I flow like a butter in the nailed pan I stole. I also kept the nail, to polish and use as a means o...
WILL ADVISE

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You bein...
WILL ROGERS

Believe in something for another world, but don't be too set on what it is, and then you won't start...
WILL ROGERS

The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every ...
WILL ROGERS

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!
WILL ROGERS

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
WILL ROGERS

No party is as bad as its leaders.
WILL ROGERS

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
WILL ROGERS

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each part...
WILL ROGERS

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
WILL ROGERS

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried...
WILL ROGERS

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long ...
WILL ROGERS

If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.
WILL ROGERS

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and their politicians as jokes.
WILL ROGERS

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was s...
WILL ROGERS

Ronald Reagan has held the two most demeaning jobs in the country; President of the United States an...
GEORGE WILL

I used to do prank calls as these people and try to convince certain hoteliers that I was someone el...
WILL TUDOR

All I know is what I read in the papers.
WILL ROGERS

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the ...
WILL ROGERS

The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur stron...
GEORGE WILL

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.
WILL ROGERS

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best o...
WILL ROGERS

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.
GEORGE WILL

It is no longer enough to be lusty. One must be a sexual gourmet.
GEORGE WILL

Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
WILL ROGERS

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.
WILL ROGERS

Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House an...
WILL ROGERS

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you
WILL ROGERS

There is no argument in the world that carries the hatred that a relioious belief does. The more lea...
WILL ROGERS

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand...
WILL DURANT

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people
WILL ROGERS

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get off the thing that he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

Education is the transmission of civilization.
WILL DURANT

There is nothing as stupid as an educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance.
WILL DURANT

Regard yourself as a small corporation of one. Take yourself off on team-building exercises (long wa...
WILL SELF

Quinns always come at half price, about half the time, and half-naked, even during the colder half o...
WILL ADVISE

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
WILL ROGERS

Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the th...
WILL SMITH

There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in.
WILL ROGERS

I like to hear a man talk about himself because then I never hear anything, but good.
WILL ROGERS

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
WILL ROGERS

Too many people are buying things they can't afford, with money that they don't have... to impress p...
WILL SMITH

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
WILL ROGERS

Never miss a good chance to shut up.
WILL ROGERS

One must be a lotus to emerge from mucky waters clean.
WILL ADVISE

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
WILL ROGERS

Don't chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people - the ones who re...
WILL SMITH

It's very important for me to maintain contact with the reader, because I'm writing to someone, and I'm desperately eager to achieve believability.

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