Jeff MacNelly Quotes

I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

Jeff MacNelly

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Career
  • Control
  • Person

• If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Three

• Research shows that whether you are low-income or not, mindset is a bigger predictor of success than academic skills, and how students gain great academic skills and persevere in the face of challenges.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Success
  • Research

• In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • School
  • American
  • History

• If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• We're not even supposed to have a break in August if we have not passed the appropriations bills. It's in the House rules.

  

  Dan Webster
  • House
  • Rules
  • August

• There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • People
  • Now
  • Collaboration

• I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Men
  • Heart
  • Child

• Metal never goes away. It drifts in and out, but the true fans are always there for it.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • True
  • Always
  • Away

• Europe is a community of half a billion people, more than Russia and the United States combined.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Community
  • Europe

• Knowing one thing well empowers you and gives you a set of tricks to the trade that you can apply across the board. Go deep, and it will serve you when you make your choices about where you want to leave your mark.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Want
  • Deep
  • Choices

• I know what it feels like to represent clients who can't get restraining orders on abusive partners.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Know
  • Like
  • Clients

• I feel like a feminist is gender equality.

  

  Ilana Glazer
  • Feel
  • Equality
  • Feminist

• A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Plague
  • Eminence
  • Stares

• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Cat

• The ills and disorders of the 14th century could not be without consequence. Times were to grow worse over the next fifty-odd years until at some imperceptible moment, by the some mysterious chemistry, energies were refreshed, ideas broke out of the mold of the Middle Ages into new realms, and humanity found itself redirected.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  • Humanity
  • Mysterious

• I try to get up every day.

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Up

• A physicist looks for causes; that does not necessarily imply that there are causes everywhere. A man may look for gold without assuming that there is gold everywhere; if he finds gold, well and good, if he doesn't he's had bad luck. The same is true when the physicists look for causes.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Good
  • May
  • Bad

• That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Love
  • Hate

• I'm well aware that I have been described in some quarters as being 'enigmatic, taciturn, prickly, explosive and forbidding'. Well, I have my moods like anyone else; I won't deny it.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Like
  • Being
  • Well

• I went to prom with my boyfriend, but after the dance he left me at a party all by myself. It was awful!

  

  Crystal Reed
  • Party
  • Dance
  • Boyfriend

• Integrity is hard work. I do think the Internet makes it harder because of the temptations of performance. You can perform and have integrity, but it's easier just to perform.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Work
  • Integrity

• I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and oftentimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.

  

  Bette Davis
  • Life
  • Suppose
  • Volatile

• I really do have a self-censorship problem, which isn't the way you should be if you're a cartoonist.

  

  Jeff MacNelly