Quotes of Chuck Dixon

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“I'm playing 'chicken' with a kid called 'Robin.' I don't know why he's showing off. I don't know why I'm going along with it. I don't even know where we're going. It could be a robbery. Or prison break. A gang war. Or free donuts at Lenny's. He sees that Bat-signal in the sky and takes off. Like a bird out of Hell. And he just expects me to follow him. And I do.” ― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One
“Costumes. The clothes we wear over who we really are. Or really want to be” ― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl/Robin: Year One
“I promise loyalty. I promise secrecy. And I promise courage.” ― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One
“You know why my wheelchair doesn't have handles, Grayson? I don't like to be pushed.” ― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8
“Master Richard carries so much on his young shoulders, the normal troubles associated with adolescence in addition to sharing Master Bruce's crusade. I only wonder if he knows how casually he is throwing away the years of his youth. And if in the end, he will feel it was worth it.” ― Chuck Dixon
“Do you think I like sending out agents to do my dirty work? Do you think I get my thrills living vicariously? Do you think I don't know hurt? Do you think I don't know hurt? You don't know hurt, sister! I can't get off the mat to take down Lynx on my own-- but you can, and by God, you will--” ― Chuck Dixon, Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey 1
“The fear that lies at the heart. Only this can keep you from what is yours. Conquer the fear in your heart and you may have anything that you desire.” ― Chuck Dixon, Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1
“All men have limits. They learn what they are and they learn not to exceed them. I ignore mine.” ― Chuck Dixon
“Y'know, a lot of the time it's like you Batguys want me to hold onto the past because you can't get over it. Understand— I have. I have a new life now. One I like — one that fulfills me. It's not the same as the one I had before, but it's good. Maybe even better.” ― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8
“I'm Oracle, I know everybody.” ― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey Vol. 2
“I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness. Not mine. Let them all underestimate me. Let them think they have the upper hand over the little girl. Let them relax while the adrenaline leaks out of their systems. Let them believe they're closing their grips on a shrinking violet. And when their guard is down and their pride is rising... let me kick their butts up around their ears.” ― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One
“I am in the service of lost boys struggling to be good men.” ― Chuck Dixon, Robin: Year One
“I have to find another path. Divine my own future. One uniquely mine. Not a page from someone else's book. Not a fate that begins and ends on page one.” ― Chuck Dixon, Batgirl: Year One
“If you don’t know shit then find somebody who does and scare that shit out of him.” ― Chuck Dixon, Levon's Ride
“There’s two things in this world you can’t frighten. A hungry dog or an angry woman.” ― Chuck Dixon, Levon's Ride
“I am Bane -- and I could kill you... but death would only end your agony -- and silence your shame. Instead, I will simply...BREAK YOU!Broken... and done.” ― Chuck Dixon, Batman: Knightfall, Vol. 1
“It was good to see her laugh. Even if it was at me.” ― Chuck Dixon, Birds of Prey (1999-2009) #8
“[...] outlining how certain fans of ’NSYNC like to imagine Justin Timber lake getting fisted by Lance Bass. Glenn Dixon surmised that much of the Contemporary Christian genre is driven by artists who literally want to fuck Jesus Christ.” ― Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
“There's more than one way to fuck someone over. Do it hard so they never forget or do it quietly so they never know you were there.” ― Chuck Dixon, Levon's Trade
Chuck Dixon
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Chuck Dixon

Charles "Chuck" Dixon is an American comic book writer, perhaps best-known for long runs on Batman titles in the 1990s.His earliest comics work was writing Evangeline first for Comico Comics in 1984 (then later for First Comics, who published the on-going ser…

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