Groening Life Quotes

#1. Ah, sweet pity. Where would my love life be without it?

Matt Groening

#2. The longer he marched, the more convinced Peter became that things were indeed hopeless and that an elephant was a ridiculous answer to any question- but a particularly ridiculous answer to a question posed by the human heart.

Kate DiCamillo

#3. Nothing, I believe, is so full of life under the microscope as a drop of water from a stagnant pool.

Agatha Christie

#4. I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.

Matt Groening

#5. I find weddings really boring. They give speeches, your aunt kisses you on the cheek, and you're at a boring table. But it's different when it's your own.

Isla Fisher

#6. I've been deadline-driven for my whole grown-up life, and that hasn't gone away. It is nice to be able to reflect about the big picture, about what kind of stories you want to tell, and how to take advantage of success.

Matt Groening

#7. The truth of it is, writers do have peculiar relationships with their characters. They are our children in more senses than one. They are born of our imaginations, carry much of ourselves in them, and embody whatever dreams we dream of immortality.

George R R Martin

#8. It's almost indecent," Mr. Kent said with a sigh.
"What is?"
"The way you look at each other.

Tarun Shanker

#9. Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

Matt Groening

#10. Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

Matt Groening

#11. I don't ever want to be perfect,
Cause I'm a singer that you
Never want to see shirtless

Ed Sheeran

#12. I feel like she could drown me in a spoonful of water or crush me with her fingernail clippings. I realize I have no chance.

Zoe Trope

#13. I know for a fact, obviously, because my kids grew up watching the show, that there are some things they are introduced to from 'The Simpsons', and then later in life they see the thing we're parodying. My kids had not seen 'Casablanca,' and we'd done parodies of 'Casablanca.'

Matt Groening

#14. The only thing I try to watch carefully is that I never lose the love for the instrument. That's also why I decided against a professional piano career when I was younger.

Nils Frahm

#15. My life changed when I was able to not only get seated in nice restaurants, I was given free appetizers. That was like, "Oh, my God, I've arrived".

Matt Groening

#16. To alcohol! The cause of ... and solution to ... all of life's problems

Matt Groening

#17. Nihilism in American comedy came along way before 'The Simpsons.' There was a fairly nihilistic point of view to 'Saturday Night Live,' for instance, back in the beginning, and a lot of really dark comedy had a really anti-sentimental take on life.

Matt Groening

#18. Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

George Bernard Shaw

#19. As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

Matt Groening

#20. Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

Matt Groening

#21. I gave away 'Life in Hell' when it was a little 'zine, and sold it at record stores for $1, and I knew from the time that I first did it that I would continue to do it, because it was fun.

Matt Groening

#22. I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

Matt Groening

#23. A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Matt Groening

#24. I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

Matt Groening

#25. It is only by instigation of the wrongs of men that what we call the rights of men become turbulent and dangerous.

James Russell Lowell

#26. In terms of organisational models and human relationship models, humankind has not evolved much over the last millennia.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#27. I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.

Diane Kruger

#28. I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

Matt Groening

#29. We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.

Simon Sinek