Top 810 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Cartoonists - Page 3

Love is... never asking for more than you are prepared to give.

Yes, we get death threats every week... from the Muslims.

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747.

Gehrig was not like the common folk; Created, was he, like the strongest oak.

Both law and comedy are heavily focused on thought and viewing all angles. To write a good joke, you have to look at a premise every way possible. And with a good legal argument, you have to see all sides to get the best line of argument for your client. Law school made me a better comic, and comedy has made me a better public speaker.

Personally, I wouldn't wait around for someone to tell you you're good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you're doing. Be relentless and never give up.

Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we're coming in there to shake things up!

Anybody running beats anybody walking, and anybody walking beats anybody sitting.

Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.

Isn't it amazing what a pencil can have inside?

It's a natural law: You receive as much as you give.

I quit comics because I got completely sick of it. I was drawing comics all the time and didn't have the time or energy to do anything else. That got to me in the end. I never made enough money from comics to be able to take a break and do something else. Now I just can't stand comics. . . . I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.

We have a balance of $ .32 in the bank . . . Which makes us four-and-a-half trillion dollars richer than the federal government.

Married life teaches one invaluable lesson: to think of things far enough ahead not to say them.

It was a most rewarding experience! I learned and saw how with a few simple ideas and concepts the same presentation can go from being standard and ordinary to interesting and involving.

Breaking new factual ground is not what Zeitgeist is about, however. Rather, the video is a powerful and fast-acting dose of agitprop, hawking its conclusions as givens. Unfortunately, like most propaganda, it doesn’t play fair with its intended audience. At times, while watching it, I felt like I was getting Malcolm McDowell’s treatment in Clockwork Orange: eyes pried wide open while getting bombarded with quick-cut atrocity photos.

You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.

The most important thing in life is to love someone. The second most important thing in life is to have someone love you. The third most important thing is to have the first two happen at the same time.

Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults.

The world is for those who make their dreams come true.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

Humor is falling downstairs if you do it in the act of telling your wife not to.

There's always been physical suffering in comedy.

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.

When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.

In golf as in life, it's the follow through that makes the difference.

I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.

I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.

A biscuit in the States is something you would put gravy on with dinner, and it's not sweet in the least!

I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.

When I look at someone's face, there's something in my brain that just clicks - that breaks down their face into the elements that go into a caricature. It might be like the way a chef tastes a dish and can break down into elements what went into it.

You've got to embrace the future. You can whine about it, but you've got to embrace it.

I think obviously there's a core of who you are, and as you get older, you become more aware of what behavior is immutable. For a long time, I felt there was a deep separation between the person I was as a teenager and the person I was in my 20s and early 30s .

In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids.

The person who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

People do that on Facebook and it's the dumbest thing in the world. I don't care what your dinner looks like. Stop cluttering up the Internet with pictures of your dinner.

We have met the enemy and he is us.

When you live from freelance check to freelance check, your mind is always on "What's the next piece I'm going to write, or draw, that'll pay this month's rent?" And so going out to play ball with my kids was a low priority.

There were eleven publishers in New York City, and when it was all over, I think it went down to four or five, and then finally just the three of them, the Big Three.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

If you look at a cartoon on a computer screen, it really jumps and can be quite effective.

My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.

I look crazy. I know I do. Been true since I was a kid!

Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.

Where's your sense of adventure? It died under mysterious circumstances. My sense of self-preservation found the body, but assures me it has an airtight alibi. -Captain Tagon & Captain Andreyasn

I ignore Hallmark Holidays. And this comes from a guy who has sold a million Opus greeting cards.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

Are we having fun yet?

Planning your own coming-of-age experience may wither you prematurely, but just think of it this way: If you can get through this, childbirth should be a breeze.

Global warming is the foreboding thunder in the distance. Ocean acidification is the lightning strike in our front yard, right here, right now.

I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.

It does not pay to be friendly with officers, they take advantage of you.

My aunt had a season ticket for the Friday afternoon concerts, and I would go down for lessons. My lessons were Saturday morning.

Marie clasped her hands together and looked vulnerable. Payne flinched. “The only time you don’t tell me something is when you think it’s dangerous, because being a fragile, sheltered noblewoman, I might faint at the thought of experiencing physical harm like a common person.” She sighed, and seemingly from nowhere, produced an enormous cast-iron frying pan easily one hundred centimeters in diameter. “And then,” she said sadly, “I have to damage one of the good pans by smacking it against your thick, common skull until you tell me—

Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground caverns... a solemn child, prim in dress and, on the whole, pretty lost... secretive and imaginative, poetic, seems underprivileged and given to occasional tantrums... has six toes on one foot.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

I really enjoy when I'm asked questions that leap from the physical world and the material world into our hearts.