Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Steig

When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family.

Flemming Rose

We would run these cartoons the same day as they would publish them.

Billy Horschel

I'm a big kid. I love drinking chocolate milk. I'm not afraid to watch some cartoons once in a while when I'm with my nieces and actually be attentive.

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.

Michael Leunig

I have sometimes done cartoons that are hurtful to people - immature, spiteful stuff. Some are so self-indulgent, and some have just failed. I look back and sometimes cringe. But one regret as I get older is that I haven't been radical and wild enough.

Rebecca Sugar

I love thinking of cartoon characters feeling really real feelings. And I love to do that, not just as a fan, but as a creator, so if people want to look for those levels, they're actually there.

John Daly

I started golf when I was four and back then in 1970, Jack come out with his Golf Digest cartoons and that's how I learned to play,

Jennifer Hale

There's more flexibility in the cartoon world than there is in video games. In video games, if I tweak a line, I could screw up the work of countless other people with my whim.

This kind of violence is contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. These cartoons should never have been printed, but the Prophet Muhammad said that we should not reciprocate by returning evil for evil. We are to reply to evil only with good.

Roz Chast

Being female was just one more way I felt different and weird. I was also a young 'un, and also my cartoons were not like typical 'New Yorker' cartoons.

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

Johnny Depp

For me, the question was, how can one take a live-action performance and put it in the parameter of one of those cartoons? How much can you get away with?

Mort Walker

At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

The IIC wants cartoon villains, not the truth. Mr. Sevan has now reached a point in his dealings with the IIC where he questions the Committee's commitment to objective and evenhanded fact-finding and doubts he can receive a fair hearing in this forum.

Petra Haden

I remember watching Looney Tunes cartoons and having the music stuck in my head.

Michael Leunig

Any cartoon that can be liked by a committee is really not worth drawing; in fact, must not be drawn at all! Better to become a stockbroker.

People who have been to Pakistan know it's people are very friendly, but the shootings and the cartoon incidents may shake investors, including Chinese.

Once you cartoon for a few years, you can't possibly do anything else. Everything else just feels like work.

(As) someone who is concerned about our situation in the world as human beings, I wonder sometimes, 'Hey, I've wandered into this cartoon world. Am I doing the right thing?'? (But) for me, it's as important as a great novel.

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

You wouldn't be able to watch the Cartoon Network if you didn't have satellites.

Tom Hanks

We are all God's animated cartoons.

Roy Lichtenstein

Picasso's always been such a huge influence that I thought when I started the cartoon paintings that I was getting away from Picasso, and even my cartoons of Picasso were done almost to rid myself of his influence.

Stephen Hawking

I like physics, but I love cartoons.

Steven Pinker

If the cartoon were completely accurate, though, life would be a cacophany of spoinks.

Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.

Ibrahim Hooper

We have expressed the Muslim community's concerns about a variety of images of the Prophet Mohammed, whether it be in textbooks, editorial cartoons or even in the Supreme Court.

It was very easy for that cartoon to be misinterpreted.

Carsten Juste

These cartoons were not in violation of Danish law but have irrefutably offended many Muslims, and for that we apologize.

I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.

Seth

I've certainly seen a lot of my cartoonist friends embrace 'Little Lulu' in a much deeper way because their kids love it so much. But that's not gonna be happening for me. There are no kids coming.

Roz Chast

I always imagined my little cartoons on plates for some reason.