Garry Trudeau Quotes

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

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• The circus allows one to be logical and unreal at the same time. In the circus, all is possible: there can be a man with two heads or a character with a green face.

  

  Fernando Botero
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• Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Best
  • Imagination
  • Books

• I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.

  

  Igor Luksic
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• I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Art
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• Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Future
  • Eyes
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• I read about violent things. I think what I get out of that is entertainment by learning about different things, and reading the genre and getting an understanding of motivations. But at the end of the day, it's still a book, and I can walk away.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Different
  • Book
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• Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Hope
  • Quality
  • Class

• When I do retire, I will miss the trips with the team, the jokes with my teammates, the habits: having breakfast with them, playing with them, all the little things.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Team
  • Breakfast
  • Habits

• I think when it comes to pop I'm past the point of curiosity. I admit to a full-on obsession with it, and I think it's getting worse, actually.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Think
  • Past
  • Curiosity

• All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • You
  • Hate
  • Call

• It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Easy
  • Health care
  • Debate

• I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Faith

• Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Truth
  • Science
  • Value

• I suppose I am one of life's naturally clumsy people; I don't drop stuff all the time, or break things, but I'm just generally a bit flustered.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Audience

• How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

  

  Olympia Brown
  • Down
  • Principles
  • System

• If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Best
  • Look

• There are so many different sub-societies inside of Syria.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Different
  • Inside
  • Many

• I don't know how much time I have left, and there are certain things I'd like to do. I've got five kids. Kacy, the oldest, I'd like to see her be happy and fulfilled with her dreams. I want Junior, who gave me the two transplants, I want him to find his niche; I know he's going to make a very big impact someday.

  

  Craig Sager
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Happy

• If you feel people getting on about what you are doing, it gives you a lift.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • People
  • Feel
  • Lift

• Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Growth

• The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Present

• That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Happy
  • Feel
  • Guilty