Gary Larson Quotes

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

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• For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Character
  • Thing
  • Having

• It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Time
  • Faith
  • Reason

• I don't have any superstitions, but what I always travel with is my pillow and my coffee.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Always
  • Travel
  • Coffee

• Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Heart
  • Practice
  • Yourself

• Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Simple
  • Brazil

• I don't think there's any formula for what makes great art.

  

  Maggie Nelson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Think

• My introduction to the Madonna Inn came as a young boy when we would take summer vacations to a nearby town. My dad would take us into their gift shop bathroom, which was a huge waterfall that functioned as the men's urinal. So as a kid, this was the most amazing thing I had ever seen.

  

  Aaron Ruell
  • Men
  • Dad
  • Amazing

• A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

  

  Dan Rather
  • World
  • American
  • Dream

• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • America
  • Building
  • Now

• A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Action
  • Party
  • Club

• My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Game
  • Goal
  • End

• It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Women
  • Power
  • Man

• I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Brand

• I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Children
  • Money
  • Wife

• The IT bubble is the IT bubble, and of course, we became a company that contracted dramatically in 2001 and 2002: we basically came down by 45,000 people - a dramatic ramp-down.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • People
  • Company
  • Down

• It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Human
  • Afraid
  • Racism

• I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Science
  • Study
  • Language

• There's something inimical about the camera and song.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Song
  • Cameras

• There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Weird

• Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Children

• My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.

  

  Justin Hayward The Moody Blues
  • People
  • Life
  • Heart

• I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Think
  • Quality
  • I Think