Bil Quotes

#1. He repeated the words dutifully, and then put together his very first sentence in elegant King's English. "Cut...fuck...Bil-lee.

Mark Wildyr

#2. 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

#3. Hey Bil-!'
Just then my air choked off- Jacob grabbed me up in a bear hug too tight to breathe and swung me around in a circle.
'Wow, it's good to see you here!'
'Can't ... breathe,' I gasped.
He laughed and put me down.

Stephenie Meyer

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

Bil Keane

#5. 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

#6. I crawled between the mattress and the padded bedstead and let the mattress fall across me like a tombstone. It felt dark and safe under there, but the mattress was not heavy enough. It needed about a ton more weight to make me sleep.

Sylvia Plath

#7. When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

Ricky Williams

#8. Why, that is why the gods made whores for imps like me.

George R R Martin

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

Bil Keane

#10. 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

#11. Time and space are different in this realm," he explained. "Your body needs a chance to adjust." At the top of the staircase we entered a room with bronze helmets decoratively set on stone pedestals.

C. Gockel

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

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

Bil Keane

#15. Your imagination is critical to discovering your dream.

Bil Cornelius

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

Bil Keane

#17. Goal begins with "GO."

Bil Keane

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

Bil Keane

#19. 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

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

Bil Keane

#21. Between Don Quixote the mystic and Sancho Panza the sensualist there is no middle ground.

John Dos Passos

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

Bil Keane

#23. 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

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

Bil Keane

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

Bil Keane

#26. The zodiac's twelve signs are said to represent powerful archetypes that are universal in theme.

Bil Tierney

#27. 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

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

Bil Keane

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

Bil Keane

#30. The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

Wendell Phillips

#31. Everything starts with one step, or one brick, or one word or one day.

Jeremy Gilley

#32. Live in the present moment and find your interest and happiness in the things of today.

Emmet Fox

#33. ahead. But they were doing this for Sophie, and

Devyn Morgan

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

Bil Keane

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

Bil Keane

#36. 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

#37. Talk of mysteries! - Think of our life in nature, - daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, - rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! The actual world! The common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? Where are we?

Henry David Thoreau

#38. When life gives you lemons ... ask for a shot glass and a bottle of vodka, because this is gonna be a long day.

Keydia Marie

#39. 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

#40. Here I am with a seriously hunky guy and I'm covered in demon pee. Why does the universe hate me?

Jana Oliver

#41. The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

George Voinovich

#42. 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