Strip Quotes

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill

Fear, Sometimes, Sense

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Away, Start, Taught

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food.
Jon Stewart

Food, Shopping, Liked

If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.
Bill Watterson

Another, Dead, Along

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
Bill Watterson

Life, Reality, Special

'Dilbert' became popular during the downsizing of the '90s, and job security was a major theme of the strip.
Scott Adams

Job, Security, Popular

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.
Billy Corgan

Long, Away, Wants

Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.
Liam Neeson

Girl, Down, Through

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.
Matt Groening

Good, Mind, Find

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Oscar Levant

Real, Find, Away

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes

Saying, Book, Films

Because the majority of my readers are women, I feel that one public service I can provide to them is to spread the message of regular mammograms and early detection within the strip.
Cathy Guisewite

Women, Service, Public

I think a woman's body is so much more sensual than a man's. I'm not saying strip off all your clothes, but there are certain photos I like people taking of me, where I'm comfortable. As long as it's tasteful, why not?
Lindsay Lohan

Long, Woman, Saying

During my years as a press secretary, I developed a powerful internal filter, which worked to strip all things 'off message' from my thoughts before they came out of my mouth. It didn't always work, of course, and I said more than a few things I regretted.
Dee Dee Myers

Work, Powerful, Thoughts

At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.
Jean Baudrillard

Women, Themselves, Audience

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
Jose Marti

Simple, Busy, Difficult

All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves.
Robert Browning

Rose, Leaves, Bound

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

My goal is to strip things down so that you need just the right amount of words or shape to convey what you need to convey. I like editing. I like it very tight.
Maya Lin

Words, Down, Goal

I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip.
John Bolton

Simply, Satisfied, Ruling

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
Vera Farmiga

Beauty, Truth, Yourself

Strip malls are history.
Jeff Bezos

It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
Ron Wyden

Health, Care, Hard

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts. And there was a considerable challenge to that here and understandably so.
Howard Baker

Challenge, Here, Difficult

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.
Ben Affleck

Long, Thinking, Remember

I've discovered just how symbiotic the relationship is between writers, directors and actors. They ask the same questions and strip down texts in exactly the same way.
Damian Lewis

Down, Same, Between

I think it's a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
Bil Keane

Another, Characters, Cross

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.
Cathy Guisewite

Thought, Married, Comic

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.
Cathy Guisewite

Mom, Enjoy, After

Cathy was the first widely syndicated humor strip created by a woman. The strip was pretty revolutionary at the time not only because it starred a female, but also because it was so emotionally honest about all the conflicting feelings many women had in 1976.
Cathy Guisewite

Humor, Time, Women

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