#superman

I liked the fact that Lois was one person with Clark and another with Superman. I think that, as women, we do that a lot when we fall in love. ↗

— Margot Kidder

#clark #fact #fall #i #i think

Batman and Superman are very different characters but they're both iconic and elemental. Finding the right story for them both is the key. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#both #characters #different #different characters #elemental

In the superman Nietzsche gave the world a conceivable and possible goal for all human effort. But there still remained a problem and it was this: When the superman at last appears on earth, what then? Will there be another super-superman to follow and another super-super-superman after that? In the end, will man become the equal of the creator of the universe, whoever or whatever He may be? Or will a period of decline come after, with return down the long line, through the superman down to man again, and then on to the anthropoid ape, to the lower mammals, to the asexual cell, and, finally, to mere inert matter, gas, ether, and empty space? ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#superman #equality

Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#superman #will-to-power #life

The publishers of Superman comic books, National Periodical Publications [later DC Comics], killed my days, murdered my nights, choked my happiness, strangled my career. I consider National's executives economic murderers, money-mad monsters. I, Jerry Siegel, the co-originator of Superman, put a curse of the Superman movie! ↗

— Jerry Siegel

#money

I'd have to be superman to do some of the things I'm supposed to have done, I've been at six different places at six different times. ↗

— George Best

#different #different places #different times #done #i

When I was nine, I had this girlfriend and we used to have running races in the park. I wanted to be like Superman and fly in and rescue her. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#girlfriend #had #her #i #like

I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on. ↗

— David Bowie

#i #just #living #man #mortal

We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its own form and purpose. We bring the thunderbolt of meaning and significance to unconscious matter, blank paper, the night sky. We are already divine magicians, already supergods. Why shouldn't we use all our brilliance to leap in as many single bounds as it takes to a world beyond ours, threatened by overpopulation, mass species extinction, environmental degradation, hunger, and exploitation? Superman and his pals would figure a way out of any stupid cul-de-sac we could find ourselves in - and we made Superman, after all. All it takes is that one magic word. ↗

— Grant Morrison

#extinction #overpopulation #superman #intelligence

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true. ↗

— Joe Shuster

#billboards #come #drawing #even #games