Jim Davis Quotes

Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.
Jim Davis

Diet, Cake, Bread

Way down deep, we're all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis

Pet, Courage, Live

Avoid fruits and nuts. You are what you eat.
Jim Davis

Eat, Avoid, Nuts

Good morning is a contradiction of terms.
Jim Davis

Morning, Good, Terms

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.
Jim Davis

Long, Someone, Done

There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.
Jim Davis

Life, Music, Art

Cats rule the world.
Jim Davis

Cats are anthropomorphised in art because they are so laid back that you automatically attribute human thoughts and feelings to them.
Jim Davis

Art, Human, Feelings

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.
Jim Davis

Everywhere, Recognises

I didn't have a whole lot of success getting dates, I was always a bit of a geek.
Jim Davis

Success, Whole, Getting

I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.
Jim Davis

Human, Stories, Animal

I stop short of being a workaholic.
Jim Davis

Short, Stop, Workaholic

I thought if I could create a convincing cat I could say and do anything I wanted on the human condition.
Jim Davis

Human, Thought, Wanted

I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.
Jim Davis

Happy, Fun, State

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.
Jim Davis

Today, Heart, Child

My dream in life is to write the one gag that makes everyone in the world laugh.
Jim Davis

Life, Laugh, Dream

The understatement is the English contribution to comedy.
Jim Davis

Comedy, English

Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
Jim Davis

Start, Head, Drawing

When you're through with your cat, you can't throw it in the trash.
Jim Davis

Through, Trash, Throw

You have to do something when you're lying in bed. So you play with your mind.
Jim Davis

Mind, Play, Bed

I was in and out of comas until I was nine and I would lose entire days and weeks. The novelty of being able to really do stuff hasn't worn off - I still feel like I'm making up for lost time.
Jim Davis

Time, Lost, Able

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.
Jim Davis

Struggle, Children, After

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: July 28, 1945

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