Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.

Constance Marie

'Wonder Woman' was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

Beverly Cleary

Over the years, I have been approached about making Ramona into a cartoon or movie, but I was afraid that no one could really capture the spunky character of Ramona.

I'm skeptical of the 'go local' approach to cartooning to preserve your job.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

Judy Horacek

My cartoons haven't been about the politics of the day or about the personalities; I'm more interested in campaigning about the issues.

Mike Hargrove

We have options. It wouldn't do any good to discuss them before I talk to Bill. That would be putting the cart before the horse.

Wisdom and virtue are like the two wheels of a cart

Whilst we respect and revere freedom of speech, we condemn needless desecration and injury of Islamic sensibilities, such as the recent cartoons misrepresenting and vilifying my ancestor, the Prophet.

Reese Witherspoon

June Carter used to say, 'I'm just trying to matter'. And I know what she means. I'm just trying to matter and make work that means something.

Reese Witherspoon

June Carter had a long heritage of just being the spokesperson for country music and the face of country music.

Hamilton Jordan

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.

Tatiana Maslany

I was honestly a cartoon kid. I loved cartoons. That was more my dream than anything else. But now, it's the films of people like John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands. Those are the kinds of characters I want to play, and that's the kind of filmmaking I'm fascinated by.

Ming-Na Wen

I was hesitant to do 'Mulan II.' For me, I felt like the story that needed to be told, this legendary character of Mulan, was already encompassed in the first movie, and I was worried they would try to create this crazy cartoon character out of this legendary character of China.

Jeff Lemire

I tend to write my beginnings and endings first - as a cartoonist and storyteller, I couldn't sit down every day if I didn't know where the story was headed.

We don't discount our greens fees. We try to put up signs about the wetness and cart paths only. We do remind our golfers about the conditions.

E. O. Wilson

We don't want to put the cart before the horse, but it's encouraging to have a significant discovery south of your lease line.

Russell Tovey

'Only Fools and Horses' was just one of those shows that could keep on going and going, that excited me. 'Hartbeat with Tony Hart' and 'Rolf's Cartoon Club' were my huge favourites, though. I used to love drawing and always sent work in to the show.

I would compare him to Carter Woodson and W.E.B. Du Bois,

Jim Rash

I loved 'Dungeons & Dragons'. That was actually a good cartoon to me.

Linda Cardellini

I love cartoons and childlike things, and this was my favorite. You can't escape it. It has always been on television, at least for my life. If someone would have told me when I was a kid I would be playing Velma in a Hollywood movie, I'd have said they were crazy.

Norman Reedus

I have a cartoon I'm developing with Adult Swim called 'Monster Town U.S.A.,' so I'm busy doing that. Trying to do a coffee-table book of my photography that's been requested of me a couple of times. I'm constantly busy.

Gene Luen Yang

If I'm writing about a modern-day suburb, there's going to be details of the home and furniture, and if I'm writing about a historical period, those details, those pieces of the world are going to be there as well, but they'll be simplified, because I'm cartooning it.

He really wants to create something with social benefit, encouraging people to consider cartoons as art and enjoy that art. It will be wonderful for New York City and will encourage even more people to come here.

John isn't just a cartoonist, he has studied the meaning and history of cartooning. In his class, the kids will even create their own cartoon strip.

I think it's going to be very close. This is one of these elections that there will not be a breakaway winner. Probably in this state we're in for a Gerald Ford-Jimmy Carter race where it may be one vote a precinct. Ohio's going to determine the next president.

John Updike

My transition from wanting to be a cartoonist to wanting to be a writer may have come about through that friendly opposition, that even-handed pairing, of pictures and words.

Andre Previn

I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him.

He was a great story. But that is an anomaly. He presented himself as a cartoon character. He was a 50-year-old man proving he could still do it in the ring. All his kids were named George. People latched onto that.

He drove around in a golf cart and made sure everyone was fine and he schmoozed with people. He was so good at that.

I did take some voiceover classes. I always loved the idea of doing a voice for a cartoon character. I just voiced the character of Suzi X in the upcoming 'The Haunted World of El Superbeasto.'

I could see why a guy could be knocked unconscious. I didn't understand why he didn't wake up right away. ... I remember him getting wheeled off the field on that cart and just looking at him. He just looked asleep, and unfortunately, what transpired was the worst thing I could think of.

William Steig

When I was an adolescent, Tahiti was a paradise. I made up my mind to settle there someday. I was going to be a seaman like Melville, but the Great Depression put me to work as a cartoonist to support the family.