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Ben Katchor Quotes

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

Ben Katchor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: cartoonist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1951

Topics

World Color America Tradition Long

What I noticed about L.A. is that people try to hit on you in your car. It's incredibly creepy to be in a car and have the guy next to you roll down his window.

Jessica Lucas

Car People Window You Down Try

When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it. There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.

John Burroughs

Science Great Animal Eye Horse See

I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.

Mavis Staples

Family Mother Voice Strong Side Get

When I was 8, I got a little toy propeller plane: You could turn it on and the people disappeared from the little windows and stewardesses appeared, and it ran along the ground.

John Travolta

People You Windows Turn Ground Toy

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

Amitabh Bachchan

Work Succeed Achieve Audience Decide

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Ron Wyden

Truth Health Truth Is You Debate

If it hadn't been for record people like Ralph Peer, the Chess brothers, and Alan Lomax, then life would've been unbelievably dull, and I would've been sacking groceries somewhere and probably, at this point, running a little 7-Eleven down by the airport.

Ry Cooder

Life People Down Chess Airport Peer

Most senators are just going to work and trying to do a job.

Judd Gregg

Work Job Trying Going Just Most

I do feel like, because my podcast is so specific, I've been really fortunate in that the kind of people it attracts tend to have interests that run with mine.

Janet Varney

People Feel Kind Run Fortunate Been

I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture.

Christian de Duve

Nature I Am Believe Acting Sin

I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

Cornelia Funke

Dog Pig Two Iceland Horses Hairy

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

Chris Messina

Teacher Dance School Me Mom She