Gary Larson Quotes

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• People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't.' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

  Gary Larson

  Silly, Ideas, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.

  Gary Larson

  Believe, Animal, Thinking

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• By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'.

  Gary Larson

  Food, Dwarves, Hungry

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• Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.'

  Gary Larson

  Miracle, Cartoon, Week

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.

  Gary Larson

  Sheep, Giving, Enemy

  Gary Larson (1995). “Gary Larson's the curse of Madame "C": a far side collection”

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• You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.

  Gary Larson

  Men, Sharks, Water

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• Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.

  Gary Larson

  Time, Money, Moments

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

  Gary Larson

  Depression, Long, Chickens

  Gary Larson (1988). “The far side gallery 3”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

  Gary Larson

  Couple, Coffee, Cups

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• If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

  Gary Larson

  Fall, Tree, Doe

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• He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude."

  Gary Larson

  Lying, Party, Names

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• You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

  Gary Larson

  Party, Should, Minutes

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.

  Gary Larson

  Beautiful, Thinking, Long

  "Gary Larson returns with 'A Worm's Story'" by Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. July 10, 1998.

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• The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

  Gary Larson

  Gentleman, Brain, Mammals

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and therefore how much I'll miss it. But I have some other interests, especially in music, and I will probably take the opportunity to delve into those things more deeply.

  Gary Larson

  Opportunity, Blood, Missing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.

  Gary Larson

  Snow, Giving, Brain

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I never liked my own species.

  Gary Larson

  Humanity, Species, My Own

  "The Far Side of Retirement". Interview with Jake Morrissey, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.

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• Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

  Gary Larson

  Teacher, Strong, School

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• What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

  Gary Larson

  Funny, Clouds, Mountain

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• Of course, living in an all-glass house has its disadvantages...but you should see the birds smack it.

  Gary Larson

  Glasses, House, Bird

  Gary Larson (1984). “The Far Side Gallery”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh. ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!

  Gary Larson

  World, Proud, Problem

  Gary Larson (1997). “Last chapter and worse: a far side collection”

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• The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

  Gary Larson

  Play, Roles, Earth

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

  Gary Larson

  Ideas, Cartoon, Vices

  Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The great thing about this jungle of ours is that anyone of you could grow up to be Lord of the apes.

  Gary Larson

  Growing Up, Stupidity, Apes

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• Perspective was always important. There are some cartoonists who can stand at the foot of a building looking straight up and they'll capture it perfectly. And then there are those of us who do the same drawing and it's the goofiest-looking thing in the world. But after a while I guess you just learn what you're capable of and what you can and can't do.

  Gary Larson

  Perspective, Important, World

  "The Far Side of Retirement". Los Angeles Times interview, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.

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