Mankoff Cartoonist Quotes

#1. Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.

Oliver Sacks

#2. No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!

C. JoyBell C.

#3. The best stories, however, are living things, and as much as we may cherish the original, the true act of love comes in the retelling.

Anne Boyd Rioux

#4. She had platonic all but tattooed on her forehead.

Kelly Moran

#5. Humor is basically a cognitive process. And it's a creative process not only on the part of the cartoonist but on the part of the viewer.

Robert Mankoff

#6. I remember how my grandmother tried to explain our world to me she told me a story she said the ground and the sky love each other but they don't have arms so rain is how they hold one another.

Shane Koyczan

#7. Mordovian prisoners are afraid of their own shadows. They are completely terrified.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

#8. I do not know whether I would not like much better to have produced one perfectly formed child by intercourse with the muses than by intercourse with my wife.

Michel De Montaigne

#9. I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

Robert Mankoff

#10. I like that I make toys.

Kim Swift

#11. That's what a bitch feng shui and fortune-telling can be. Not only do you have to follow it, you have to fucking enjoy it at the same time.

Elaine Lui

#12. The past could liberate or imprison - it creates a nation's character, provides the nourishment or the poison a people imbibe in their very marrow.

F. Sionil Jose

#13. When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Keith Jarrett

#14. As a cartoonist I do what I find funny. As an editor I have a broader approach realizing that humor is inherently subjective and I don't want my preferences to rule out what others might like.

Robert Mankoff

#15. Difficult times require difficult decisions. But supporting this bill shouldn't be a difficult decision.

Jim Bunning

#16. Better to know a little, I figure, than nothing at all.

Haruki Murakami

#17. People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

#18. A brick is ... ... ... Well it's a bloody brick what more do you want from me?

Nicole McKay

#19. You're going to think I'm being corny, but this is how I really feel: I hope my family and my friends will be able to say that I was an honest, kind and fairly decent man.

John Wayne