Gary Larson Quotes

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• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
• Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here…
• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
• The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly…
• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
• A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider…
• Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for…
• My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But…
• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I…
• Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic,…
• Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy…
• I never liked my own species.
• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
• I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in…
• Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!
• If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?
• It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.
• You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters,…
• I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee…
• This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

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