I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I won't quite get it anymore. Because sometimes the grenade goes off in the moment, and then it doesn't repeat down the line.


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Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
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Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST
I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the diff...
ROBERT FROST
They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
ROBERT FROST
What we live by we die by.
ROBERT FROST
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a da...
ROBERT FROST
I go to school the youth to learn the future.
ROBERT FROST
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind ska...
ROBERT FROST
The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint w...
ROBERT FROST
Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.
ROBERT FROST
And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written o...
ROBERT FROST
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
ROBERT FROST
Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. ...
ROBERT FROST
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
ROBERT FROST
Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
ROBERT FROST
A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
ROBERT FROST
The only certain freedom's in departure.
ROBERT FROST
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.
ROBERT DELAUNAY
It was the basilica of gossip, the Vatican of inside dope.
ROBERT HUGHES
For me, baseball just brings up a lot of nostalgic, happy feelings because I enjoyed it as a kid, an...
ROBERT LORENZ
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM
Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM
On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for...
ROBERT FULGHUM