Top 42 Gary Larson Quotes
#1. 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 to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.
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#2. This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
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#3. The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
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#4. The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
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#5. Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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#6. I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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#7. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We ...
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#8. Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly ...
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#9. I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.
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#10. The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.
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#11. Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
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#12. The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
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#13. What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?
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#14. 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, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
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#15. It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.
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#16. You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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#17. Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages ... but you should see the birds smack it.
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#18. He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."
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#19. Hot oil! We need hot oil! ... Forget the water balloons!
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#20. You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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#21. 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 I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.
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#23. I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
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#24. If you're gonna shoot an elephant Mr. Schneider, you better be prepared to finish the job.
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#25. I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
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#26. 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 we go again.'
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#27. If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?
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#28. By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ...
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#29. I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
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#30. 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 some ways.
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#31. I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
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#32. The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!
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#33. Thunderstick? ... You actually said, 'Thunderstick?' ... That, my friend is a Winchester 30.06.
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#34. On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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#35. 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, beautiful and at eye-level.
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#36. 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 into me and weird things just start to happen.
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#37. Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!
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#38. I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
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#39. Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.
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#40. 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 worm.
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#41. The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen ... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.
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#42. The fuel light's on, Frank! We're all going to die! Wait, wait ... Oh, my mistake - that's the intercom light.
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