Comic Book Story

Famous quotes containing the words comic, book and/or story:

“The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.”
—Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

“My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“I thought my razor was dull until I heard his speech and that reminds me of a story that’s so dirty I’m ashamed to think of it myself.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, as a newly-appointed college president commenting on the remarks of Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)