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Quotes by Cartoonist
"There's a bit of debate about that; some say it was really Matthew, but the popular consensus is that Mark was the first one, so that's why I did that one first. And I was planning on doing all four."
4
"Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests."
4
"It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become."
4
"Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day."
4
"Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget."
4
"I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?"
4
"I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression."
4
"The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever."
4
"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
4
"Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice."
4
"Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?"
4
"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture."
4
"Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist."
4
"Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully."
4
"There's always been physical suffering in comedy."
4
"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."
4
"Or heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."
4
"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
4
"I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else."
Army,
4
"When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem."
4
"I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more."
4
"Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there's nothing real about it; it's an adult using a kid's body as a mouthpiece."
4
"Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most."
3
"People think that whatever I put into strips has happened to me in my life."
3
"Sure, I've had some bad times, but everybody does. But people don't get to talk about them like I do, unless they do to a therapist. People don't get to put them in the paper like I do."
3
"The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety."
3
"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."
3
"If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself."
3
"I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess."
3
"Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it."
3
"The sad events that occur in my life are the sad events that happen to everybody, with losing friends and family, but that is a natural occurrence, as natural as being born."
3
"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."
3
"Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is."
3
"Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in."
3
"Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge."
3
"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
3
"I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there."
3
"The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others."
3
"A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose."
3
"I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse."
3
"I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things."
3
"The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about."
3
"If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go for a walk, I would just be depressed all the time."
3
"I was very lucky all three newspapers approached me and asked me to draw their cartoons for them."
3
"Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976."
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