Quotes by Gary Larson - Page 2

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 / Cartoonist
Brain
Gentleman
Mammals
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I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Different Ways
Silly
Twisting
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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 / Cartoonist
Men
Sharks
Water
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People get very passionate about saving the whale, but when something like a Florida indigo snake is endangered there are not a lot of people out there holding up placards.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Florida
Saving
Endangered
Holding
Snake
Whale
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I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Coffee
Couple
Keys
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Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Animal
Beautiful
Eye
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With my own cartoon, it was just me being goofy by myself, but when it comes to an animated film, you're working with 45 animators and assistant animators. It's a whole different ballgame.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Animated
Ballgame
Cartoon
Goofy
Myself Me Own
Animators
Assistant
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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 / Cartoonist
Brain
Giving
Snow
Again
Always Where Know
Watch
Shake
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As a kid I used to raise snakes. Obviously, my social life was a bit down at the time. But it took me a while to realise that with an interest like that people are going to think there's something wrong with you.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Snakes
Social Life
Life Time Me
Realise
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Usually when I sat down to draw a cartoon, it would be more of a reflection of things in my past. Or it could be something I had experienced that morning, or that week, or something I might know that's part of my background.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Morning
Past
Reflection
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I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Cartoon
Innocence
Kind
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As for the reasons behind my retirement, they mostly center around simple fatigue and a fear that if I continue for many more years my work will begin to suffer, or at the very least ease into the graveyard of mediocre cartoons.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Ease
Fatigue
Graveyard
Mediocre
Retirement
Simple
Begin
Cartoons
Center
Least
Mostly
Reasons
Suffer
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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 / Cartoonist
Problem
Proud
World
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I didn't want to go to school for more than four years, and I didn't know what you did with a bachelor's in biology. So I switched over and got my degree in communications. I regret it now. It was one of the most idiotic things I ever did.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Biology
Idiotic
Regret
Bachelor
Communications
Switched
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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 / Cartoonist
Opportunity
Blood
Hazy
Missing
Plans
Miss
Cartooning
Deeply
How Much
Interests
Therefore
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The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Black Hole
Cartoon
Scientist
Calendar
Daily
Edition
Hole
Indefinitely
Plug
Preemptive
Pulled
Rocket
Seemed
Strike
Sustained
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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 / Cartoonist
Teacher
School
Strong
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Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Diversity
Ecosystems
Fiber
Fuel
Human History
Humans
Irreversible
Loss
Timber
Water
Life Time History
Comparable
Demands
Fresh
Largely
Rapidly
Resulted
Substantial
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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 / Cartoonist
Current Events
Drawing
Events
Folks
Ideas
Shallow
Silly
Sitting
Sound
Work Look People
Tv
Basically
Cartoons
Current
Deep
Watch
Gee
Laugh
Meanings
React
Stimuli
Table
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I don't read cartoons because I think for the most part the comics don't have an interest for me. There's just nothing there these days that makes me want to go seek them out. I'm not trying to say my work wouldn't have sparked that same reaction from somebody else. There's just nothing there for me personally.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Cartoon
Thinking
Trying
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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 / Cartoonist
Beautiful
Categories
Interconnectedness
Long
Long Time
Long Time Ago
Roles
Thinking
Ugly
Unimportant
Life Time Nature
Aware
Forms
Life Nature Time
Consider
Leads
Life Forms
Lump
Misunderstand
Respective
Simplistic
Tendency
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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 / Cartoonist
Important
Perspective
World
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I think it's vital to be honest with yourself. You do have to satisfy yourself first. If you're drawing something, you have to ask yourself if it's something you genuinely think is funny. Or is it starting to fall into just a category, just kind of a shtick thing? I think it's important for all cartoonists to be honest with themselves about their own sense of humor and what they're doing.
Gary Larson / Cartoonist
Fall
Important
Thinking
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