Quotes About Mad Magazine

#1. My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn't grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.

Tom Tomorrow

#2. But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.

Jerry Zucker

#3. I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as well.

Joe Lo Truglio

#4. I think I'm equally as abusive as the editors normally are for the "Letters and Tomatoes" column, which is the fan mail part of MAD Magazine and an ongoing feature.

Al Yankovic

#5. I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.

Amy Heckerling

#6. Einstein pronounced the doom of continuous or 'rational' space, and the way was made clear for Picasso and the Marx Brothers and Mad magazine.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

Al Yankovic

#8. The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

Tom Lehrer

#9. My greatest thrill was the day Mad magazine spoofed 'Ghost.'

Jerry Zucker

#10. Uglier than death backin' outta the outhouse readin' mad magazine and crazy as a football bat.

Alan Moore

#11. I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd.

Robin Lord Taylor

#12. Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff.

Alison Bechdel

#13. Almost any object, including this book you hold, can turn up as Exhibit A in a murder trial.

Tom Robbins

#14. It is the saying of an ancient sage that humor was the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#15. In the Keys, a lot of people are stubborn.

Craig Fugate

#16. the magazine compared him with John Lennon from the Beatles. I told that to Sam later, and she got really mad. She said he was like Jim Morrison if he was like anybody, but really, he isn't like anybody but himself.

Stephen Chbosky

#17. The question tumbles out of my mouth like a smooth stone in a stream, its edges worn clean by how often I roll it around in my head.

Sara Raasch

#18. A man's vanity is more fragile that you might think. It's easy for us to mistake shyness for coldness, and silence for indifference.

Lisa Kleypas

#19. Our magazine shelves are filled with crime and sex pulp-magazines that are being read and devoured by millions of young people ...
Scores are seeing each week the trash that Hollywood produces. Truly our children are movie mad.

Billy Graham

#20. Imagine if you were performing at your full potential, the lives you would change - including yours. Just imagine...

Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.

#21. Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.

David A. Morse

#22. Of course I loved him.' I walked toward the window. 'We were best friends.'
'You know that's not what I meant.'
'You don't know what you mean,' I said. 'Because you know nothing about love.

Amber Dermont

#23. Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.

Augustus William Hare

#24. He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

Ann Brashares

#25. Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.

Hugh Hood

#26. Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire ... is one Monarch and one Sword.

Carlos Fuentes

#27. It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

Al Yankovic

#28. Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

Curt Schilling

#29. Everything here is alive thanks to the living of everything else.

Lewis Thomas