Gary Larson Quotes

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

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• Most people today still believe, perhaps unconsciously, in the heliocentric universe every newspaper in the land has a section on astrology, yet few have anything at all on astronomy.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Great
  • Done

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• No one ever tells a story to help you figure out where to go when a door closes on you.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Help
  • Door
  • Story

• The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Mark Twain cannot be defined.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Mark
  • Mark Twain
  • Twain

• I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

  

  Farnaz Fassihi
  • May
  • Death
  • You

• People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.

  

  Saadi
  • People
  • Up
  • Ugly

• I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Never
  • Horrible

• We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Religion
  • View
  • Terrorism

• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Life
  • World
  • Hope

• Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Small
  • Leadership
  • Bold

• God, I can push the grass apart and lay my finger on Thy heart.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • God
  • Heart
  • Grass

• Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!

  

  Dane Cook
  • Just
  • Hot
  • Notes

• A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Security
  • Software

• If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • People
  • God
  • Remember

• You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Up
  • Great
  • Different

• When I had cancer - of the colon first, followed by breast cancer and a mastectomy - my motto used to be 'Drips by day, Prada by night.' I felt that I had to grasp it in the same way as you'd take on any challenge.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Night
  • Day
  • Challenge

• AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Up
  • Night
  • Relationship

• The project of Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man' is exactly that: to assert the beautiful, bountiful, chaotic complexity of one black American male. And, by extension, all black American males.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • American
  • Beautiful
  • Man

• It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • May
  • Inspire
  • Collaboration

• I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.

  

  Gary Larson
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  • Jazz
  • Cartooning