Mort Walker Quotes

#1. It's okay to talk about it. Death is so normal, I don't know why everyone gets so hung up about it. We all have to deal with it. Most people that you talk to have lost someone, but nobody talks about it.

Rachel Ward

#2. When I draw, I rule the world.

Mort Walker

#3. When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary efforts to get the guys back to routine.

Mort Walker

#4. I took Beetle home thinking that after the Korean War was over, I would have to take him out of the Army. I thought, well, what am I going to do with him?

Mort Walker

#5. Seven days without laughter makes one weak.

Mort Walker

#6. The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

Albert Einstein

#7. While the world may feel entitled and have the power to pronounce an individual crazy, are there times when the innocent genius, the insightful individual or just the old grandmother may reasonably declare the world to be mad? Probably, but what hope or happiness would such an individual have?

Michael Leunig

#8. Life is like a game of chess ... there are many moves possible, but each move determines your next move ... where you wind up is the sum total of all your past moves ... but first you have to make some kind of move.

Mort Walker

#9. When I introduced a black soldier, Lt. Flap, in 1971, the Stars and Stripes banned the strip. They were having racial problems and thought it would increase the tensions.

Mort Walker

#10. Some people will do schlock or anything, just to get their name on it.

Mort Walker

#11. At one time Tribune Syndicate emptied out their storeroom. They put tables full of original cartoons down in the lobby and said take one if you want one. The comics were simply a burden to them.

Mort Walker

#12. I started out as a physicist; however, I am what I have become. I have evolved, with the help of many colleagues in the international scientific community, into an interdisciplinary scientist.

Alan J. Heeger

#13. Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of your heart.

Mort Walker

#14. It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

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#15. This is that burden I was talking about, Bree. This is what the burden of loving me looks like."
"Loving you isn't a burden. Loving you is an honor and a joy, Archer.

Mia Sheridan

#16. The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

Mort Walker

#17. I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

Mort Walker

#18. Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did.

Mort Walker

#19. You killed 'em both, babe. They're both dead," he babbled, shaking.
"I had to," she said, pointing the gun at the corpse lying at her feet. "That one saw me naked.

Marc Rainer

#20. Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

Jeremy Rifkin

#21. You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.

Mort Walker

#22. You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

Mort Walker

#23. I was kicked out of The Stars And Stripes twice, and finally got back in.

Mort Walker