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“Superiority is always detested.”
“Superiority to circumstances is one of the most prominent characteristics of great men.”
“Superiority to Fate Is difficult to gain 'Tis not conferred of Any But possible to earn.”
Source: Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them
“Superiority to fate
Is difficult to learn.
’Tis not conferred by any,
But possible to earn
A pittance at a time,
Until, to her surprise,
The soul with strict economy
Subsists till Paradise.”
“SUPERLUMEN
[Laboratorio Sperimentale D]
— Mi ha convocato d'urgenza, professor Oppenahimher. Allora avanti, mi dica.
— Alle 11:09 abbiamo trasferito con successo un oggetto dotato di massa attraverso l’ambiente Iperspazio 9. Lo spostamento è avvenuto tra le due stazioni terminali dell’anello di prova, distanti tra loro 970 metri. Abbiamo verificato i dati.
— Eccellente! Non speravo in una notizia tanto buona! Ma perché mai non me ne ha fatto cenno nel messaggio? Sono assolutamente favorevole ai protocolli di riservatezza, ma questa volta la situazione meritava certo un’eccezione!
— Sì, ecco… a questo proposito…
— Allora è possibile! Mio Dio… ho passato gli ultimi tre anni a dubitare di ogni cosa. Sarò sincero, iniziavo a disperare. Tutto questo tempo, professore… tutti i nostri sforzi ora sono ripagati! Mi perdoni, devo sedermi, l’emozione è troppo forte, mi dà il capogiro!
— Sì, ecco, è meglio che si sieda…
— Possiamo dunque arrivare alle stelle? Abbiamo finalmente il mezzo per spostarci più veloci della luce?
L'umanità è in salvo dal pericolo che incombe?
Racconti! Mi dica! Voglio i dettagli! Forse è il caso che prenda appunti. Dovrei stendere un breve comunicato stampa, lei che ne dice?
— Ehm, temo che il comunicato dovrà aspettare, signore…
— Certo, certo, capisco benissimo il suo punto di vista da scienziato. Naturalmente! Forse ha ragione, aspetteremo, ma almeno mi dia qualche dato! La curiosità mi uccide!
— Sì, ecco, abbiamo fatto e rifatto i calcoli. L’oggetto dotato di massa ha viaggiato a 48 km/h.
— …
— Praticamente come un antico Garelli.
— Oh...”
Source: CRONACHE DAL FUTURO: 111 storie per sopravvivere al domani
“Superman and Batman go to a small claims court together. I knew they'd cast [Gal Gadot], I had seen pictures of her, I remembered seeing her doing parts in movies and I went and re-watched stuff with hers and then met with her.”
“Superman and Robinhood are still alive in Hollywood.”
“Superman can fly high way up in the sky
'cause we believe he can. So what we choose to believe can always work out fine...It's all in the mind.”
“Superman comics are a fable, not of strength, but of disintegration. They appeal to the preadolescent, (sic) mind not because they reiterate grandiose delusions, but because they reiterate a very deep cry for help.
Superman's two personalities can be integrated only in one thing: only in death. Only Kryptonite cuts through the disguises of both wimp and hero, and affects the man below the disguises.
And what is Kryptonite? Kryptonite is all that remains of his childhood home.
It is the remnants of that destroyed childhood home, and the fear of those remnants, which rule Superman's life. The possibility that the shards of that destroyed home might surface prevents him from being intimate- they prevent him from sharing the knowledge that the wimp and the hero are one. The fear of his childhood home prevents him from having pleasure.
He fears that to reveal his weakness, and confusion, is, perhaps indirectly, but certainly inevitably, to receive death from the person who received that information.
[...]
Far from being invulnerable, Superman is the most vulnerable of beings, because his childhood was destroyed. He can never reintegrate himself by returning to that home- it is gone. It is gone and he is living among aliens to whom he cannot even reveal his rightful name.”
“Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.”
“Superman don't need no seat belt.”
“Superman is going to live forever. They'll be reading Superman in the next century when you and I are gone. I felt, in that respect, I was doing the same thing. I wanted to be known. I wasn't going to sell a comic that was going to die quickly.”
“Superman is not as innately cool as Batman.”
“Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us.”
“Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.”
“Superman loves everyone. He's like Jesus except he punches people.”
“Superman – Moses in a costume, with his underpants on the outside. Captain America – the poster boy of the mad American patriot. Wonder Woman wore a bathing suit bearing the American flag. She was as beautiful as Aphrodite, as wise as Athena, as strong as Hercules, and as swift and as great a warrior as Diana. Superheroes fought enemy spies at home. They battled reds under the beds. America is a mythological country in the modern world. By surrounding itself with modern myths, it has made itself less and less real. America simulates being a real country via its modern myths, but only succeeds in become phonier.”
Source: Superheroes and Presidents: How Absurd Stories Have Poisoned the American Mind
“Superman: No more mercy for cancers posing as men.”
Source: Injustice: Gods Among Us, Vol. 2
“Superman once challenged Chuck Norris to a fight, the loser had to wear his underwear on the outside.”
Source: 155 World's Funniest Chuck Norris Jokes And Facts: The Best And Funniest Kick-ass Facts About Roughest, Toughest, Deadliest, Sexiest & The Most Fearless ... The Legend
“Superman punched out Hitler. So did Captain America. That's one of the things they're there for.”
“Superman’s scourge is kryptonite. Fear’s kryptonite is laughter.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Superman told me... that we needed to make a double... type of record... and so I answered: 'Okay, Superman. We will make... a double type of record but it won't be a double album because... Batman... didn't want a double album'”
“Superman was never previewed because the producers didn't trust Warners with the film.”
“Superman when he goes after someone is essentially not trying to beat them, he is trying to save them from themselves... You're looking at a God who walks amongst men!”
“Superman! Champion of the oppressed. The physical marvel who had sworn to devote his existence to helping those in need.”
Source: Superman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told
“Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.”
“Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.”
“Superman, when he's fighting you, isn't like Batman. He also isn't like Spider-man, who will bully you and make fun of his villains. Why do you think Spider-man's villains all hate him so much? Maybe because as he breaks their bones he's mocking them! Batman's villains are all insane! Superman, when he goes after someone, is essentially not trying to beat them. He's trying to save them from themselves.”
“Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows?”
“Supermarket automatic doors open for me; therefore, I am.”
“Supermarket companies are big logistics companies, and one of the ways we've increased profitability in the past is by re-evaluating how they do logistics.”
“Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.”
“Supermarkets depict abundance; boutiques exclusiveness; roadside stands authenticity.”
“Supermarkets in Denmark have experimented with adding a second bar code to packages of meat that when scanned at a kiosk in the store brings up on a monitor images of the farm where the meat was raised, as well as detailed information on the particular animal’s genetics, feed, medications, slaughter date, etc. Most of the meat in our supermarkets simply couldn’t withstand that degree of transparency; if the bar code on the typical package of pork chops summoned images of the CAFO it came from, and information on the pig’s diet and drug regimen, who could bring themselves to buy it? Our food system depends on consumers’ not knowing much about it beyond the price disclosed by the checkout scanner. Cheapness and ignorance are mutually reinforcing.”
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
“Supermarkets this large and clean and modern are a revelation to me. I spent my life in small steamy delicatessens with slanted display cabinets full of trays that hold soft wet lumpy matter in pale colours. High enough cabinets so you had to stand on tiptoes to give your order. Shouts, accents. In cities no one notices specific dying. Dying is a quality of the air. It's everywhere and nowhere. Men shout as they die to be noticed, remembered for a second or two. To die in an apartment instead of a house can depress the soul, I would imagine, for several lives to come. In a town there are houses, plants in bay windows. People notice dying better. The dead have faces, automobiles. If you don't know a name you know a street name, a dog's name. 'He drove an orange Mazda.' You know a couple of useless things about a person that become major facts of identification and cosmic placement when he dies suddenly, after a short illness, in his own bed, with a comforter and matching pillows, on a rainy Wednesday afternoon, feverish, a little congested in the sinuses and chest, thinking about his dry cleaning.”
Source: White Noise
“Supermodels are over, and the new picture girl has become the television actress.”
“Supernatural entities simply do not exist. This nonreality of the supernatural means, on the human level, that men do not possess supernatural and immortal souls; and, on the level of the universe as a whole, that our cosmos does not possess a supernatural and eternal God.”
“Supernatural fiction contains its own generic borderland: a neutral territory, which Tzvetan Todorov calls 'the fantastic,' between 'the marvelous' and 'the uncanny.' According to Todorov, 'The fantastic is that hesitation experienced by a person who knows only the laws of nature, confronting an apparently supernatural event.' Once the event is satisfactorily explained (and sometimes it is never explained), we have left the fantastic for an adjacent genre - either 'the uncanny,' where the apparently supernatural is revealed as illusory, or 'the marvelous,' where the laws of ordinary reality must be revised to incorporate the supernatural. As long as uncertainty reigns, however, we are in the ambiguous realm of the fantastic.”
Source: The Haunted dusk: American supernatural fiction, 1820-1920
“Supernatural hasn't spent a lot of time on relationship stories, and this is a really nice mechanism to do that without imposing that on the forward momentum of these other stories that we're telling. In the writers' room we tend to say, "We're never going to be able to give a hell or Purgatory as good as people's imaginations," so the instinct is normally not to go there. But, we went the other way this year and said, "We are going to go there," because there's a really, really strong character thing going on down there.”
“Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; whereas they are natural, far more natural than he. Such is their doom.”
“Supernatural perhaps...baloney, perhaps not!”
“Supernatural was great because my character changed so much from beginning to end, always keeping me on my toes.”
“Superpowers are unnecessary when one has a booming voice, a fine moustache, and an endless supply of puddings.”
Source: The Super Heroic Adventures of Sir Digby Dungchunder
“Superpowers lecture world peace by guns, bombs, distinctions, and injustice; consequently, flames of hatred spread and turn into invisible terror; thus, peace suicides in the lap of such powers before it prevails and fragrances.”
“Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck”
“Supersonic airplanes have carried men at more than 2,000 miles per hour and there are reasons to believe that this speed will be doubled by 1960 or so.”
“Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power
Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex”
“Superstar lawyers and math whizzes and software entrepreneurs appear at first blush to lie outside ordinary experience. But they don't. They are products of history and community, of opportunity and legacy. Their success is not exceptional or mysterious. It is grounded in a web of advantages and inheritances, some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky - but all critical to making them who they are. The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all.”
“Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.”
“Superstars perform so naturally and so instinctively that they seem to be able to enter a pressure-packed situation that would terrify or freeze most people as if nothing matters. They let it happen, let it go. They couldn't care less about the results.”
Source: Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More