Robert Kirkman Quotes

In presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

I experienced the California Northridge Earthquake of 1994 and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980, and I have thus seen firsthand how terrible and awesomely devastating a force of nature can be.

In particular, for my character, Celeste [in Big Little Lies], there was a way in which we wanted to present her, because she has sort of barriers that she has to put up for protection because of things that are going on in her life. Yet she wants to be, I suppose, very presentable but neutral.

In the world of cyber security, the last thing you want is to have a target painted on you.

How much would you want to stand at the wrong end of a shooting gallery?

The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

The reader wants to see something happen between pages one and four hundred, and nothing happens if the characters don't change.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

When we talk about adversity, this is the moment when character really gets tested. When things aren't going the way you want and you can't see anyway that they're going to go the way you want. That's kind of when those old virtues really become valuable and vulnerable also.

You are like a hurricane, there's calm in your eyes, and I'm getting blown away.

I don't want nothing comin' at me that I can't stop.

I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off.

The real test of our character is when the bottom falls out.

Just remember who you belong to, Hannah. I wouldn't want to have to shoot anyone - or strangle you." She leaned over to kiss his shoulder. "Why am I the one to be strangled?" "It's a much more personal death.

Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Especially if the target is unprepared.

Virtually everything is dangerous if you are afraid.

Voldemort uses people his enemies are close to. He's already used you as bait once, and that was just because you're my best friend's sister. Think how much danger you'll be in if we keep this up. He'll know, he'll find out. He'll try and get to me through you.

In the event of war, I'm a hostage.

Very little makes me feel vulnerable these days. I hit my absolute apex of vulnerability when I returned to my home state of Louisiana, during the Gulf oil spill disaster, and witnessed mass devastation to every demonstration of life surrounding me - from grass, trees, bayous, insects, to animals and people - we all felt demolished.

As much as I can give of myself I give of myself. There's no reason why not. And when I have to hide something, I let the character speak.