Hank Ketcham Quotes

Anyone in the humor business isn't thinking clearly if he doesn't surround himself with idea people. Otherwise, you settle for mediocrity - or you burn yourself out.

Hank Ketcham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: cartoonist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 14, 1920 - June 1, 2001

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BusinessHumorYourselfPeopleYou

Soap opera wouldn't be my first choice, but at this point in my life, I would consider a soap. It would allow me to act and still do other things with my life.

Joe Lando

LifeMeMy LifeChoiceFirstOpera

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

Jim Dale

EndFeelWalkingGuiltyBoyPoor

The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive.

Joan Didion

WordsMindPictureShortLongYou

If you think you can do it, you can.

John Burroughs

MotivationalYou Can Do ItThinkYou

If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.

Matthew Heineman

CityConflictYouWrongUnderstand

The last thing I want to appear is remotely jaded or bitter, which it could come across the wrong way.

Matthew Williamson

WrongWantWayBitterLastCome

It strains credulity to suggest that an agency charged with gathering intelligence affecting the national security does not have an 'intelligence interest' in drone strikes, even if that agency does not operate the drones itself.

Merrick Garland

IntelligenceSecurityGatheringEven

By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

John Pearson

FatherGodDeepBlessingsHelpWho

The domestic policy of any president, U.S. or otherwise, is his or her own concern, as long as democratic norms are followed.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

LongPresidentPolicyOwnHerNorms

I always feel as though I've made a significant improvement after every training session. It's never S-O-S, same old stuff. It's always something new.

Mike Daniels

ImprovementTrainingFeelNewNever

The earth incites the wonder and admiration of man even though he is imperfect and his understanding greatly limited.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

ManUnderstandingWonderEarthEven

I felt bad when George Bush was booed. But only briefly. My sympathy for that man has a half-life of about four seconds.

Dick Cavett

ManSympathyBadOnlyFourSeconds

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