Walter Lantz Quotes

I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.

Walter Lantz

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• I'm just happy that 'Idol' producers gave me a shot on the show and to be able to show who I really was, because I feel like I'm every single woman.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Happy
  • Single
  • Feels

• I try to act out of faith.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Faith
  • Act

• There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Moments

• Man, at his best, remains a sort of one-lunged animal, never completely rounded and perfect, as a cockroach, say, is perfect.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Perfect
  • Animal

• ... but every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood.

  

  Betsy Lerner
  • Understood
  • Translate
  • Keyboard

• I understood the importance in principle of public key cryptography but it's all moved much faster than I expected. I did not expect it to be a mainstay of advanced communications technology.

  

  Bailey Whitfield Diffie
  • Technology
  • Importance
  • Moved

• What I have learned lately is that people deal with death in all sorts of ways. Some of us fight against it, doing everything we can to make it not true. Some of us lose our selves to grief. Some of us lose ourselves to anger.

  

  Carrie Jones
  • People
  • Death
  • Grief

• Firing is always difficult. The right way: one-on-one. The wrong way: snickering in front of other people, or via email.

  

  David Moore
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Management

• "S" on my chest cause I'm ready to save him Ready to get buck on anybody that plays him

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Play
  • Causes
  • Ready

• I have no idea what's going to happen. Who knows - if they can't afford to buy a boat, maybe they buy a print. Who knows what happens with their buck?

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Ideas
  • Happens
  • Boat

• I was a cartoonist when I was at university, but I decided to go into movie making knowing that I could still draw by doing movies, design work, story boards, and such.

  

  Robert Rodriguez Chingon
  • Design
  • Knowing
  • Draws

• Looking back I realize I had the perfect family background to become the political cartoonist that I became. My father was stupid, insensitive, and cruel, thereby making me distrustful of all authority. On the other hand, I had a warm, supportive and encouraging mother, which made me want to fix the world.

  

  Edward Sorel
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Authority

• I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.

  

  Walter Lantz
  • Cartoonist
  • Bucks