Groening Cartoonist Quotes & Sayings

Doubt is not the enemy of justice; overconfidence is. — Carol Tavris

Tobak Davenport, who is a cross between some Sugar Puffs and Lynn Faulds-Wood, was squatting there before being removed by the local constabulary after he went round to complain about Luther Blisset's pet turkey fouling the communal herb garden. — St John Morris

Intellect is resented as a form of power or privilege. — Richard Hofstadter

Your life, your achievement, your happiness, your person are of paramount importance. Live up to your highest vision of yourself no matter what the circumstances you might encounter. An exalted view of self-esteem is a man's most admirable quality. — Ayn Rand

A smart philosipher once said reading is like life so enjoy it"

-Maggie — LIFE Magazine

And if her heart was breaking with every step she took, at least he would never know. — Susan Andersen

This is called synchronicity - a state in which you almost feel as if you are in a collaborative arrangement with fate. — Wayne Dyer

I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or Garfield or something. — Matt Groening

God sure hadn't done His menfolk any favors when He's made women such a puzzlement. — Regina Jennings

The goal of equality seems to disproportionately burden women, since it's assumed that they have to assume more responsibility, while men can remain the status quo. — Amy Richards

We are mice, he thinks, and the sky swirls with hawks. — Anthony Doerr

Happy is the civilization which can breed men accustomed from infancy to regard certain at least of the ego's natural activities as unthinkable. — Iris Murdoch

Apparently I'm introspective ... levelheaded ... but at the same time, absolutely insane. — Ellie Goulding

I should almost therefore put forward the proposal that the third hypothsis (angle sum of a triangle less than two right angles) holds on the surface of an imaginary sphere. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

My father was a really sharp cartoonist and filmmaker. He used to tape-record the family surreptitiously, either while we were driving around or at dinner, and in 1963 he and I made up a story about a brother and a sister, Lisa and Matt, having an adventure out in the woods with animals. — Matt Groening

Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it's true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. — James Baldwin