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Quotes by Cartoonist

"You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being."

"The most profound statements are often said in silence."

"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."

"I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie."

"Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything."

"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television."

"The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice."

"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."

"Their scrambled attention spans struck me as a metaphor for the way we get our doses of reality these days."

"Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made."

"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation."

"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."

"I normally keep a series of draft in a catalogue type of book in which I scribble, sketch and draw ideas."

"Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties."

"You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public."

"I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort."

"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."

"There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises."

"God invented mankind because he loved silly stories."

"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"

"Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life."

"Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture."

"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."

"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different."

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."

"Without naming names, I think other movies look more realistic but they feel less real."

"Immortality - a fate worse than death."

"Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world."

"Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget."

"What's much harder is taking on people in your own community."

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."

"Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog."

"And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was."

"My impression was, he's walking as though he's made of glass, and if you should touch him he would just shatter apart. I don't know if it was an act or what, but it sure was effective."

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."

"We're not very accepting of people who act strangely."

"I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself."
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