Matt Groening Quotes

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me.

Of course I’ve gone mad with power! Have you ever tried going mad without power? It’s boring and no one listens to you! — Russ Cargill

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

To alcohol! The cause of... and solution to... all of life's problems

You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try.' Homer Simpson

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

English? Who needs that? I'm never going to England.

I didn't lie, I was writing fiction with my mouth." Homer Simpson

Weaseling out of things is important to learn. It's what separates us from the animals ... except the weasel.

You can't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." Homer Simpson

I promise I'll do anything for you, especialy if it's easy. Homer Simpson

Keep your expectations tiny you'll go through life not so whiney.

Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers.

When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

The entire world of grown-ups is corrupt and stupid.

I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicans for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

I’ll keep it short and sweet - Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

This doesn't happen in America! Maybe Ohio, but not in America!" Homer Simpson

I'm presently incarcerated. Convicted of a crime I didn't even commit. Hah! "Attempted murder"? Now honestly, what is that? Do they give a Nobel prize for attempted chemistry? Do they?

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

Living creatively is really important to maintain throughout your life. And living creatively doesn't mean only artistic creativity, although that's part of it. It means being yourself, not just complying with the wishes of other people.

You toyed with my heart, like it was a toy heart. (Lisa Simpson)

D'OH!

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know...

Where do babies come from? Don't bother asking adults. They lie like pigs. However, diligent independent research and hours of playground consultation have yielded fruitful, if tentative, results. There are several theories. Near as we can figure out, it has something to do with acting ridiculous in the dark. We believe it is similar to dogs when they act peculiar and ride each other. This is called "making love". Careful study of popular song lyrics, advertising catch-lines, TV sitcoms, movies, and T-Shirt inscriptions offers us significant clues as to its nature. Apparently it makes grown-ups insipid and insane. Some graffiti was once observed that said "sex is good". All available evidence, however, points to the contrary.

But we all had an agreement to let each other get away with everything! That's Capitalism!

Hello. I'm Leonard Nimoy. The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No." --Leonard Nimoy

Welcome to Suckersville, man.

Ned, have you considered any of the other major religions? They're all pretty much the same." --Reverend Lovejoy

When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson)

Lisa, I apologize to you, I was wrong, I take it all back. Always be yourself. If you want to be sad, honey, be sad. We’ll ride it out with you. And when you get finished feeling sad, we’ll still be there. From now on, let me do the smiling for both of us.

[Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party. [Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.

Stop thinking about fun and have it” Homer Simpson

Do my worst, eh? Smithers, release the robotic Richard Simmons." --Mr. Burns

No matter how good you are at something there's always about a million people better than you.

Your lyrics lack subtlety! You can't just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!

Books are useless! I only ever read one book, To Kill A Mockingbird, and it gave me absolutely no insight on how to kill mockingbirds! - Homer Simpson

Painted on shirts went over so well I thought, why not painted on pants? Well, the big shot manager at Krusty Burger didn't agree!

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

You watched it! You can't unwatch it!

Judging by his outlandish attire, he's some sort of free-thinking anarchist.

A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things

You see, Marriage is like a Coffin, and each Kid is another Nail.

I've found that child's play -stuff that was not considered serious, but goofy- was the stuff I liked to do, so I still do it as an adult.

One year later, I got beat up at a Neil Diamond concert by a guy named Scrunchie!

God often gives nuts to toothless people.              —Matt Groening

Si vas a hacer trampa, hazla con todas tus fuerzas

... schools in many industrialized nations were not, for the most part, designed to produce innovative thinkers or questioners -- their primary purpose was to produce workers. The author Seth Godin writes, "Our grandfathers and great grandfathers built schools to train people to have a lifetime of productive labor as part of the industrialized economy. And it worked." To create good workers, educations systems put a premium on compliancy and rote memorization of basic knowledge -- excellent qualities in an industrial worker. (Or, as the cartoonist and Simpsons creator Matt Groening puts it, "it seems the main rule that traditional schools teach is how to sit in rows quietly, which is perfect training for grown-up work in a dull office or factory, but not so good for education.") And not so good for questioning: To the extent a school is like a factory, students who inquire about "the way things are" could be seen as insubordinate. It raises, at least in my mind, a question that may seem extreme: If schools were build on a factory model, were they actually designed to squelch questions?

The truth is Matt Groening and David X. Cohen created a program that was much more than your typical cartoon. In fact, they created the gold standard of high-quality TV. The quality of Futurama has been recognized both by its fans and its peers. It has won five Emmys, seven Annie Awards, and two Writers Guild of America Awards, as well as receiving two Environmental Media Awards. With crisp 3-D animation and challenging storylines that engage issues in philosophy, mathematics, physics, normalcy, and the environment, Futurama has forever changed the public’s perception of what’s possible with a TV cartoon.

What I’ve noticed in a lot of other cartoonists is a sullen resentfulness about their lack of attention and tiny checking accounts. I vowed back in the days when I had no money that I would not allow that kind of bitterness to overtake me. . . . Cartooning, in general, is a very solitary occupation, and it breeds all sorts of self-punishing thinking

NEWSFLASH Lisa, Bart is not a horse!" —Homer Simpson

Love is like racing across the frozen tundra on a snowmobile which flips over, trapping you underneath. At night, the ice-weasels come.” —Matt Groening

meantime, here is a list of degrees for five of the nerdiest writers: J. STEWART BURNS BS Mathematics, Harvard University MS Mathematics, UC Berkeley DAVID S. COHEN BS Physics, Harvard University MS Computer Science, UC Berkeley AL JEAN BS Mathematics, Harvard University KEN KEELER BS Applied Mathematics, Harvard University PhD Applied Mathematics, Harvard University JEFF WESTBROOK BS Physics, Harvard University PhD Computer Science, Princeton University

Once he gave her a Rothko book—an interesting choice, since like Elliott, Rothko also attended Lincoln High School in Portland (as had poet Gary Snyder and Simpsons creator Matt Groening). The

When I was a kid I had to hide my R. Crumb comics from my parents. Now I'm a parent, and I have to hide my R. Crumb comics from my kids. Thirty years on, and I'm still hiding my R. Crumb comics. [Matt Groening, Cartoonist: The Simpsons, Life in Hell]