Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank King

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.

Alison Bechdel

When I grew up, I studied karate for years. I got pretty strong, but eventually I had to acknowledge that I really didn't like fighting at all, so I quit.

Mike Peters

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

Bill Griffith

When the Zippy movie first started being talked about very rarely would people actually say animation to me, because I would never consider it.

Dan DeCarlo

Because they feel that without them telling you to do this, you wouldn't have had the characters that you have, you wouldn't have the book that you have.

Tom Wilson

We are set to make very bad history.

Tom Wilson

These days an income is something you can't live without - or within.

Tom Wilson

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

Tom Wilson

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Gene Luen Yang

If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.

David Horsey

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

Jonathan Shapiro

Certainly in cartooning I'm given huge free rein at the moment.

Terri Johnson

Our very first grant was a seventh-grader who wanted to go to cartooning school. Another girl went to sing with the Sussex County Chorus in Europe.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

In many ways, cartooning is my therapy. I've always said they're like my diaries. It's thoughts and feelings and things I've seen on any particular day.

Jeff Kinney

In middle school, I started to draw, and my pencil sketches were huge. They were these 4ft by 3ft drawings, and I got a lot of attention for that, so that was very validating. But I didn't start cartooning until I was in college.

Jonathan Shapiro

There was a teacher who recognized that I was interested in cartooning and he was great.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.