I didn’t always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the ‘L’ out of me.
BIL KEANESometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
More Bil Keane Quotes
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Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
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I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
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Goal begins with “GO.”
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I don’t just try to be funny.
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When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late ’30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present.
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I think it’s a novelty for cartoon characters to cross over into another strip or panel occasionally.
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In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
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On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can’t tell what you’re going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
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A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
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I like to feel that what I’m doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It’s a subject that is near and dear to me.
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God put Santa Claus on earth to remind us that Christmas is ‘sposed to be a happy time.
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Sometimes I get the feeling that I’m stranded in the wrong time where love is just a lyric in a children’s rhyme
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OF COURSE I’d like to be the ideal mother. But I’m too busy raising children.
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