Macnelly Quotes & Sayings

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper ... sharp pencils ... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to the desk ... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter ... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead. — Jeff MacNelly

A career is a job that has gone on too long. — Jeff MacNelly

I remain an eternal optimist about love. I believe in love. — Jennifer Lopez

While I do believe we are loved even when we do not make the sacrifices we could make, I think part of this life is learning to love what we are capable of. — Ashley Mae Hoiland

That which we manifest is before us. — Garth Stein

Above average intelligence has always run in my family. Ambition, however, has always walked with a limp. — Jeff MacNelly

My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque. — Bill Watterson

The middle-of-the-road policy is not an economic system that can last. It is a method for the realization of socialism by installments. — Ludwig Von Mises

I think the experience forced me to consider how interested I was in political cartooning. After I was fired, I applied to other papers but political cartooning, like all cartooning, is a very tough field to break into. Newspapers are very reluctant to hire their own cartoonists when they can get Oliphant or MacNelly through syndication for a twentieth of the price. — Bill Watterson

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear. — Ovid

The Opera reminds me of my tax audit. It was in a language I didn't understand. And it ended in tragedy. — Jeff MacNelly