Bil Keane Quotes

#1. Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

Bil Keane

#2. For the outsider
and everyone in this world is an outsider in relation to everyone else
something always seems worse or better than it does for the one directly concerned, whether that something is good luck or bad luck, an unhappy love affair or an 'artistic decline'.

Heinrich Boll

#3. Sometimes you have to choose whether what you're wishin' for is really what you want.

Corinne Michaels

#4. Your mind is like this water, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

Bil Keane

#5. I don't just try to be funny.

Bil Keane

#6. Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present.

Bil Keane

#7. I don't have to come up with a ha-ha belly laugh every day, but drawings with warmth and love or ones that put a lump in the throat. That's more important to me than a laugh.

Bil Keane

#8. I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.

Bil Keane

#9. Goal begins with "GO."

Bil Keane

#10. God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is 'sposed to be a happy time.

Bil Keane

#11. I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.

Bil Keane

#12. In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.

Bil Keane

#13. Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.

Bil Keane

#14. They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

Bil Keane

#15. I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.

Bil Keane

#16. Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start

Bil Keane

#17. I always thought of myself as a moderate liberal, a fighter for peace and justice. I never thought of myself as being all that far out.

George McGovern

#18. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.

Bil Keane

#19. Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

Bil Keane

#20. Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme

Bil Keane

#21. Engaging with exceptionally hard problems forces us to think differently.

Ed Catmull

#22. When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.

Bil Keane

#23. We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

Bil Keane

#24. OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.

Bil Keane

#25. On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Bil Keane

#26. What I sell is the higher knowledge of knowing what's next and not following the trend of what's now.

Theophilus London

#27. A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.

Bil Keane

#28. Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

Bil Keane

#29. I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Bil Keane

#30. Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face

Bil Keane