Quotes of: Cathy Keyword

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

The Complete Calvin and Hobbes

I gave up on ever trying to get 'my way.' I barely knew it existed.

Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?

I am hell with a knife and there is nothing I can really do about it but try and keep my mouth shut and try not to let it show.

Cruddy

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Calvin and Hobbes: It's a Magical World

Then turn your eyes back on me, and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects.

Flowers in the Attic

Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world's problems?

Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone, and if you make a mistake, it's your mistake. If you hit a home run, it's your home run.

Hank Aaron

But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those m...

Nancy Kerrigan

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

The Authoritative Calvin And Hobbes

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Sticking to my schedule, I've gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a 'Pearls Before Swine' movie script for the big screen.

Stephan Pastis

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

Stephan Pastis

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

Stephan Pastis

I don't pay that much attention to sales figures or awards. To me, the big question is: 'Did you influence the next generation?' That's my goal.

Stephan Pastis

I write for three or four hours and then hopefully I'll have something. Then I draw for the rest of the afternoon... I literally block out Wednesday-Thursday-Friday - I more or less disappear.

Stephan Pastis

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

Stephan Pastis

When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!

Lynda Barry

I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.

Lynda Barry

Part of a horror movie has to be a bit fakey for me to really enjoy it. The new ones are so realistic that they distract me from the ride through the horror.

Lynda Barry

The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad it's there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isn't dead.

Lynda Barry

Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.

Lynda Barry