Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
William Arthur Ward
A. R. Ammons
Paul Tournier
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Edward Gibbon
Arthur C. Clarke
All authors
Today's birthdays
1866 - Sun Yat-sen
1949 - Jack Reed
1980 - Julia Restoin Roitfeld
1978 - Alexandra Maria Lara
1963 - Damon Galgut
1946 - James F. Amos
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Businesswoman
Chef
Saint
Mathematician
Designer
Activist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Quotes by professions
Quotes by Cartoonists
Quotes by Cartoonists
When people talk about their God, it is difficult to know what they actually mean, and when people talk about their atheism, it is usually incomprehensible also.
Michael Leunig
God
People
Difficult
Atheism
About
Know
Talk
Also
Mean
Actually
Incomprehensible
So few humans seem to fully exist themselves that I wonder if all this endless speculation and haggling about God is really an exploration of a more interesting and embarrassing question about ourselves.
Michael Leunig
God
Few
Embarrassing
Ourselves
About
Seem
More
Exist
Question
Wonder
Endless
Interesting
Themselves
Really
Exploration
Fully
Humans
Speculation
Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.
Michael Ramirez
You
Emotions
Smart
Thought
Politicians
Think
Frankly
Cartoons
Catalyst
Make
Editorial
Passions
Accomplishment
Stir
Itself
Provocative
Substantive
Informative
Should
Speaking
Deep
When people ask me what is an editorial cartoonist, I often say we're kind of a hybrid. We're a cross between Edward R. Morrow, Ted Koppel and the Son of Sam.
Michael Ramirez
Me
Son
People
Say
Kind
Cartoonist
Cross
Hybrid
Morrow
Between
Editorial
Edward
Sam
Often
Ask
Ted
I'm a political analyst. I'm a political wonk. I read everything I can get my hands on as a contributor to the 'Weekly Standard.' Of course I read that. I read the 'National Review' on the right. I read 'Mother Jones' on the left. If I want a good laugh, I'll watch MSNBC or read 'The Nation.'
Michael Ramirez
Good
Mother
Political
Nation
National
Good Laugh
Analyst
Everything
Laugh
Weekly
Read
Course
Review
Left
Get
Hands
Contributor
Hands-On
Want
Standard
Right
Watch
I think it's important to view the issues on the broadest possible reference plane. In fact, if you firmly believe in any issue, I urge you to read the opposite of it. Most of the time, it'll merely reinforce your original beliefs, but on the rare occasion, it might change your mind.
Michael Ramirez
Time
You
Change
Mind
Rare
Important
Believe
Think
Possible
Fact
Merely
Firmly
Most
Occasion
Read
Issue
Issues
Opposite
Reference
Any
In Fact
Urge
Might
Plane
View
Your
Original
Beliefs
Reinforce
President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.
Michael Ramirez
Politics
Political
Goals
Other
President
President Obama
Obama
Determined
Rather
Withdraw
Withdrawal
Deadline
His
Iraq
Than
Timetable
Artificial
Decided
Prematurely
Reason
Strategic
It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity.
Mike Peters
Me
Integrity
People
Think
See
Record
Record Label
Taking
Like
Most
Knows
Genuine
Label
Anyone
Grand
Mean
Who
Shows
Thing
Things
I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business.
Mike Peters
You
Business
Pressure
National
State
Say
Out
Would
Guys
More
Weekend
Tournament
Feel
Lot
Than
Fun
There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.
Pat Oliphant
Good
Old
Nixon
Days
Were
Old Days
Dragon
Slay
Dragons
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
Pat Oliphant
Hate
Changes
Administration
Faceless
Taken
Nobody
Knows
Because
Replaced
Wonders
Place
Villains
Away
There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.
Pat Oliphant
Art
Strong
Black
Black And White
White
Cartoonists
Given
Always
Contingent
Tradition
Been
Australia
Quite
Size
Large
Population
I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
Pat Oliphant
Politics
Me
People
Boring
Boring Thing
Never
Involved
Looked
Always
Very
Interested
Much
Thing
Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
Pat Oliphant
Today
You
State
Visiting
Like
Go
Been
Australia
Very
Much
Even
So many cartoonists draw the same year after year. When they find a style, they stick with it. They don't mess with innovation, and they become boring.
Pat Oliphant
Innovation
Style
Become
Year
Draw
Find
Boring
Cartoonists
Mess
Stick
Same
After
Many
I can always see what I've done wrong. I'm always learning. I'm the perennial student.
Pat Oliphant
Learning
See
Perennial
Student
Wrong
Always
Done
Some felt as if 'Charlie Hebdo' was obsessed with its 'Screw Allah' stance. It's a sort of provocation that caused a lot of debates.
Patrick Chappatte
Allah
Some
Charlie
Obsessed
Sort
Felt
Caused
Lot
Debates
Provocation
Screw
Stance
Moderate people are able to be moderate and have free speech only because there are some people on the fringe.
Patrick Chappatte
People
Free
Some People
Free Speech
Able
Some
Only
Because
Fringe
Moderate
Speech
A real totalitarianism is at work in the world and wants to impose its views not only on Arab Muslims, but on the West. The same way that they veil women, Islamic radicals want to veil cartoons in the press.
Patrick Chappatte
Work
Women
World
Totalitarianism
Way
Press
Arab
Muslims
Cartoons
Only
Veil
Islamic
Real
Impose
West
Same
Want
Wants
Views
Radicals
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
Patrick Chappatte
Good
History
Guilt
Good Taste
Sense
Our
Through
Learned
Lines
Taste
Today, fear of bloodshed is forcing us into recognizing new taboos: those of Muslims.
Patrick Chappatte
Today
Fear
Forcing
Those
Recognizing
Muslims
Taboos
New
Bloodshed
Us
The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.
Patrick Chappatte
People
World
Challenge
Internet
Big
Closed
Live
Society
Increasingly
Our
Evolution
Faces
Only
Open
Also
Read
Big Challenge
Due
Where
Communities
Beliefs
Things
Let's not let cartoonists get involved in a war of any kind, except for a war against stupidity.
Patrick Chappatte
War
Stupidity
Kind
Cartoonists
Except
Involved
Get
Any
Against
I don't think any media has to feel obliged to show the cover of 'Charlie Hebdo.'
Patrick Chappatte
Think
Charlie
Obliged
Feel
Cover
Any
Show
Media
The Internet has empowered us. It has empowered you, it has empowered me, and it has empowered some other guys as well.
Patrick Chappatte
Me
You
Internet
Other
Some
Guys
Well
Empowered
Us
I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.
Paul Conrad
Good
Seen
Other
Destroy
Drawing
Bad
Bad Idea
Never
Idea
Hand
Good Idea
Save
Load more quotes