Top 810 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Cartoonists

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.

Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.

Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

I am about as detailed as a shadow.

Life at best is bittersweet.

I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.

Even drawing gray hair at all is difficult to render in black and white.

I just really love the cartoon form. I love the plasticity of it.

I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles - normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.

Defy your own group. Rebel against yourself.

The scientists at the end of the 19th century had people coming to them with this weird behaviour, and they didn't know what was going on but there seemed to be a similarity. They needed an answer, so they made up one.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.

After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny.

I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.

A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.

Just because something makes you smile or laugh ... doesn't mean it's a joke.

On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

Making cartoons means very hard work at every step of the way, but creating a successful cartoon character is the hardest work of all.

Every burden is a blessing.

My best sources are my travels and my collection of National Geographic.

The down side of Americans being obsessed with pop culture is that they kind of like it light.

Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

As long as anger, paranoia and misinformation drive our political debate, there are unhinged souls among us who will feel justified in turning to violent remedies for imagined threats.

Inspiration is some mysterious blessing which happens when the wheels are turning smoothly.

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?

I never wore a watch. I always depend on public clocks, and stores have clocks, but that is strange.

A gorilla with a cellphone riding a bicycle is bound to generate some clever captions.

What do women want? Shoes.

Even people that I agree with can do something that would be a target for a bit of humor.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

I know I don't own Big Bird, but I own his soul, I feel.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.

I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.

It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.

One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way that comics characters can be drawn not-realistically, but the emotional reality is still very sincere. So you can have these exaggerations that express inner emotion through physical appearance.

It's better to dance like a fool, than to stand around like an idiot.

All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension.

You may look normal like everyone else, but you're not. Not on the inside.

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.

Some survived due to advancements in engineering. Personally I'd take a vaccine over living in an iron lung. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-america-looked-like-polio-children-paralyzed-in-iron-lungs/251098/

Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.