Top 100 Larson Quotes
#1. We [with Nimai Larson] listened to hardly any music except Hare Krishna music growing up and the occasional Garth Brooks that our babysitter would play for us. From a very early age, we looked at music as mantra based, very cyclical, and having no linear time.
Taraka Larson
#2. Gary Larson: The funniest cartoonist I've ever seen. His two-volume set (The Complete Far Side) should be the textbook in any course taught on how to be funny on the comics page.
Stephan Pastis
#3. The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.
Demetri Martin
#4. That a man can change himself ... and master his own destiny is the conclusion of every mind who is wide-awake to the power of right thought.(Christian D. Larson)
Rhonda Byrne
#6. The process of self-invention is never-ending; writer, like children, are always growing into their gifts. (Susan Larson in a "Times-Picayune" book review.
Susan Larson
#7. I don't think that evolution is supremely important because it is my specialty; it is my specialty because I think it is supremely important. [In: Edward J. Larson (2004) Evolution, Modern Library. p. 250]
George Gaylord Simpson
#8. When it comes to classic Disney, I've got it in my DNA. I mean, the guy who trained me, the man who mentored me when I first came to the Studio was Eric Larson, one of Walt's Nine Old Men.
Chris Buck
#10. Again, folks, you've been witness to one of the most seldom seen events in history ... I'm Chicken Larson saying good night, sleep tight and don't let the boogie man or a suicide blonde getchya.
Jenn Cooksey
#11. When I met Nathan, I told my tour manager he was too good-looking for me. I don't have a history of dating good-looking men. I've always complained that girls don't get male groupies, and now I've married the first groupie I've ever had. (on her first impression of husband, Nathan Larson)
Nina Persson
#12. Nimai [Larson] and I are very psychically connected to each other, I guess just being sisters, so as soon as we started watching sports videos we thought, Oh yeah, we could totally get into this zone.
Taraka Larson
#13. Dixon never forgot it, how young Jaye Larson looked, whispering his horrors as the breath fogged from his soft lips.
Lynn Kelling
#14. I played an artist in a comedy called 'Rooster.' It was a zany film by Glen Larson, a friend who produced several successful television series including 'Magnum PI.'
LeRoy Neiman
#15. I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
Graham Moore
#16. I'm learning with the older that I get that some feelings are just universal and that I'm not the only one who hates their hair or their life at times.
Brie Larson
#17. She saw Hitler as "a clown who looked like Charlie Chaplin." Like many others in America at this time and elsewhere in the world, she could not imagine him lasting very long or being taken seriously.
Erik Larson
#18. A Bridgeport, Connecticut, man presented his girlfriend with an engagement ring and handed her one end of a ribbon; the other end disappeared into his pocket. "A surprise," he said, and urged her to pull it. She obliged. The ribbon was attached to the trigger of a revolver. The man died instantly.
Erik Larson
#19. I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.
Taraka Larson
#21. I had collages in my bedroom when I was a teenager.
Brie Larson
#22. If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
Erik Larson
#23. I've always felt like I've had the ability to choose which roles I was going to play. I don't think that the industry agreed with me, but I've always had a bit of a headstrong attitude of only doing the things that I really believe in and want to explore.
Brie Larson
#24. Instruments fascinate me because they're completely awkward. When I picked up a guitar for the first time I was like, "What is this?" because it's so foreign and unknown.
Brie Larson
#25. The thing I was always most protective of was my mystery. I worried that if I gave too much of myself, then I would limit the characters I could fall into.
Brie Larson
#26. Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind you. If a petite, abused slave can rise up, fight for freedom, secure the freedom of others, and change her world, so can I. And so can you.
Susie Larson
#27. I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
Erik Larson
#28. Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
Erik Larson
#29. In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.
Doug Larson
#30. I know how to have a conversation, but I've never done improv. I've never taken improv classes.
Brie Larson
#31. Your ability to form a strong intention, to concentrate, and to get and stay focused while feeling detached from concerns of daily life - relaxed, open-minded, and emotionally energized - are essential.
Cynthia Sue Larson
#32. This is the story of Isaac and his time in America, the last turning of the centuries, when the hubris of men led them to believe they could disregard even nature itself.
Erik Larson
#33. I am the richest person alive (or at least one of!) because I get to do what I love as a career.
Kirby Larson
#34. It had swept him, he said, "into a dream from which I did not recover for months.
Erik Larson
#35. If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur
Doug Larson
#36. Life is growth and the object of right thinking is to promote that growth.
Christian D. Larson
#37. The city's legions of working men disagreed. They always had counted Harrison as one of their own, "Our Carter," even though he was a plantation-reared Kentucky man who had gone to Yale, spoke fluent French and German, and recited lengthy passages from Shakespeare.
Erik Larson
#38. I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.
Glen A. Larson
#39. I'm not a gourmet. I just like the planet.
Brie Larson
#40. Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
Doug Larson
#41. You could put me on a stage in front of 100 people, and I could do a tap dance, but one-on-one was really difficult for me. And it took me most of my life to learn how to work with that anxiety, to embrace and be comfortable with it.
Brie Larson
#42. The idea of singing and dancing throughout my life and finding that bliss is something I wanted to express and explore within myself and hopefully spread that idea to other people.
Brie Larson
#44. Or should you mourn the rapist, which I guess Christians mourn the people who kill them too.
Nikolas Schreck
#45. Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne,
Erik Larson
#46. I was home-schooled, was always very close with my mom and was very straight-laced and square. I was never the rebellious one, and I never threw hissy fits.
Brie Larson
#47. Camille's rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees.
Erik Larson
#48. I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl," he wrote. "You must expect to give yourself up when you come." For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open.
Erik Larson
#49. He became one of the few voices in U.S. government to warn of the true ambitions of Hitler
Erik Larson
#50. Growing up, I just loved movies. It was how I saw the world, which I wanted to learn more about.
Brie Larson
#51. 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.
Gary Larson
#53. As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.
Erik Larson
#54. I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.
Taraka Larson
#55. I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.
Kirby Larson
#56. Recalling his first impression of Hitler, Hanfstaengl wrote, Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off.
Erik Larson
#57. New York's perennial attraction was shopping.
Erik Larson
#58. I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.
Brie Larson
#59. Although her book did include compelling recipes for scrapple, ox cheek, and baked calf's head and tips for the preparation of raccoon, possum, snipe, plovers, and blackbirds (for blackbird pie) and "how to broil, fricassee, stew or fry a squirrel," it was much more than just a cookbook.
Erik Larson
#60. One can evade a danger that one recognizes,' wrote historian Friedrich Zipfel, 'but a police working in the dark becomes uncanny. Nowhere does one feel safe from it. While not omnipresent, it could appear, search arrest. The worried citizen no longer knows whom he ought to trust.
Erik Larson
#61. It's a hindrance to be lonely and isolated in one's work. Ideas stimulate ideas, and the love of writing is contagious." Martha
Erik Larson
#63. This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
Gary Larson
#64. Why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
Erik Larson
#66. He knew that his day was coming to an end. On July 4, 1909, as he stood with friends on the roof of the Reliance Building, looking out over the city he adored, he said, You'll see it lovely. I never will. But it WILL be lovely.
Erik Larson
#67. To find the courage to do what I want to do for myself has been hard.
Brie Larson
#68. It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
Kirby Larson
#69. I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.
Brie Larson
#70. Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham
Erik Larson
#71. I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills surrounded by trees, and I have, like, a mom and two baby deer that come by all the time, and my dogs and the squirrels are in a full-on feud every morning.
Brie Larson
#72. I tell you we must have bodies. You cannot make doctors without them, and the public must understand it. If we can't get them any other way we will arm the students with Winchester rifles and send them to protect the body-snatchers on their raids.
Erik Larson
#73. He was a creature of the last turning of the centuries when sleep seemed to come more easily. Things were clear to him. He was loyal, a believer in dignity, honor, and effort.
Erik Larson
#74. A new phrase was making the rounds in Berlin, to be deployed upon encountering a friend or acquaintance on the street, ideally with a sardonic lift of one eyebrow: "Lebst du noch?" Which meant, "Are you still among the living?
Erik Larson
#75. The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
Gary Larson
#76. For me, 'Room' is an opportunity to relive an aspect of my childhood that I hadn't put a ton of thought into.
Brie Larson
#77. The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
Gary Larson
#78. A clean basement, garage and attic are signs of an empty life.
Doug Larson
#79. Revealing her secret to her friends had lightened her burden. She found herself better able to focus, and her mind became a dry sponge soaking up knowledge. Lieutenant Volf may have been a brittle
M.A. Larson
#80. For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
Brie Larson
#81. How you do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart?
It reaches way down deep and tears you up till you're torn apart.
Jonathan Larson
#82. To be an uncommon woman is to do what's unnatural. Like streams in the desert, the uncommon woman has the capacity to find refreshment and be a source of refreshment no matter where life finds her.
Susie Larson
#83. Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.
John B. Larson
#84. Expected, well suited to Germany's guerrilla
Erik Larson
#85. I only write about stuff I know. I don't have a lot of experience with boys and stuff so I write a lot of songs about interesting and strange subjects that people wouldn't write songs about.
Brie Larson
#86. His achievements read like the graffiti on the walls of a hangman's changing room.
Jonathan Larson
#87. Time lost can never be recovered ... and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
Erik Larson
#88. This prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest me when he's done his work and has done it pretty well.
Erik Larson
#89. When you're dying in America, at the end of the millennium, you're not alone
Jonathan Larson
#90. I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.
Erik Larson
#91. After noting that Germany's submarine campaign had sharply reduced traffic from America, Churchill told Runciman: For our part, we want the traffic - the more the better; and if some of it gets into trouble, better still.
Erik Larson
#92. From a legal perspective, illegal communication
behavior also is unethical, but that which is not specifically illegal is ethical. In
Charles U. Larson
#93. Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson
#94. I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.
Kirby Larson
#95. I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
Gary Larson
#96. My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.
Brie Larson
#97. Never doubt the courage of the French. They were the ones who discovered that snails are edible.
Doug Larson
#98. Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
#99. What binds the fabric together when the raging, shifting, winds of change keep ripping away?
Jonathan Larson
#100. People are living longer than ever before, a phenomenon undoubtedly made necessary by the 30-year mortgage.
Doug Larson
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