KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Gary Larson Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Gary Larson

Showing 11-20 of 20 Quotes by Gary Larson

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.

~Gary Larson

Topics: Around Career Cartoon Day Guy High High School Looking School Walk You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: After Black Black Hole Calendar Cartoon Daily Edition Hole Indefinitely Kind Know Like Me Plug Pulled Rocket Scientist Seemed Strike Sustained Why You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

~Gary Larson

Topics: Been Big Big Mistake Cartoon Door Drawing Gonna Guy Here Keep Mistake Next Next Door Say Shovel Show Someone Supposed Thinking Up Your

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: About Around Different Different Ways Get Head Inside Just Silly Something Start Think Ways

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Aware Beautiful Became Categories Consider Forms Human Important Interconnectedness Leads Life Long Long Time Long Time Ago Lump Many Misunderstand Nature Often Respective Roles Simplistic Tendency Thing Think Time Ugly Unimportant Us I Think

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

~Gary Larson

Topics: Always Considered Graveyards Music Musicians Stores

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

~Gary Larson

Topics: Career Cow Entire Entire Career Just Looking More Than

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Gary Larson

Topics: Actually Cartooning Find Jazz Lot Parallels

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Basically Cartoons Current Current Events Deep Down Drawing Events Folks Gee Get Getting Ideas Just Laugh Look Meanings Other People React Read Say Shallow Silly Sitting Sound Stimuli Table Try Tv Want Watch Work You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

~Gary Larson

Topics: About Almost Cartooning Fit Good Later Me Never Now Think Years

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: August 14th, 1950

Links

Find Gary Larson on Amazon

Related Authors

Scott Adams
Jim Davis
Walt Disney
Matt Groening
Bil Keane
Charles M. Schulz
Bill Watterson
Tom Wilson

Popular Authors

Kofi Annan Julius Caesar Johnny Cash Frederick Douglass Ruth Bader Ginsburg Steve Irwin Lyndon B. Johnson Andy Warhol

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1770 - William Wordsworth

1648 - John Sheffield

1718 - Hugh Blair

1772 - Charles Fourier

1775 - Francis Cabot Lowell

1780 - William Ellery Channing

1873 - John Mcgraw

1874 - Frederick Carl Frieseke

1881 - Daisy Ashford

1889 - Gabriela Mistral

Birthdays on April 7th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Family God Inspirational Legal Politics Romantic Trust Valentine's Day