Gary Larson Quotes

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

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• I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.

  

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• If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.

  

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• The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

  

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• I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.

  

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• I know what a long shot race is like, and I'm willing to put the work in.

  

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  

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• I just have to concentrate on doing what I do.

  

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• I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.

  

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• A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.

  

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• My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

  

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• I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.

  

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• But God, who is immortal, has no need of difference of sex, nor of succession.

  

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• I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.

  

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• The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.

  

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• For me, I like to push myself... I hate feeling complacent or that I'm not learning.

  

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• I think some people like me because I'm different. I don't think like everybody else. People are so tied up in the worst parts of technology these days. They live a life pressing buttons. They don't use their imaginations.

  

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• I can Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them, Like men besides, like men in light secluded, Enjoying angels.

  

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• I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

  

  Gary Larson
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