18 Charles M. Schulz Quotes

Charles M. Schulz quotes

1. It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

2. A cartoonist is someone who has to draw the same thing day after day without repeating himself.

3. I never give my work to somebody else and say, 'What do you think about that?' I just don't trust anybody. If I think it's funny, or if I think it's silly, I send it in anyway because I'm just trying to please myself. I never try to please a certain audience. I think that's disastrous. There's no way in the world you can anticipate what your reader is going to like or dislike.

4. If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books-- --but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

5. I just draw what I think is funny, and I hope other people think it is funny, too.

6. The only thing I really ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my life. Drawing.

1. Never, ever, ever give up.

2. There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

3. Nobody likes me!" "I wish I could like you, Charlie Brown, but I can't... If I were to like you, it would be admitting that I was lowering my standards! You wouldn't want me to do that, would you? Be reasonable! I have standards that I have set up for liking people, and you just don't meet those standards! It wouldn't be reasonable for me to like you!" "I hate myself for being so unreasonable!

4. Life is full of choices, but you never get any!

5. Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being.

6. No one would have been invited to dinner so often as Jesus was unless he were interesting and had a sense of humor.

7. You can't write a term paper before breakfast.

8. I think I'll go over and introduce myself to that little red-haired girl. I think I'll introduce myself, and then ask her to come over and sit next to me. I think I'll ask her to sit next to me here, and then I think I'll tell her how much I've always admired her... I think I'll flap my arms, and fly to the moon.

9. The world is filled with unmarried marriage counselors.

10. I wonder if there's such a thing as a spiritual dentist? I think my whole personality is full of cavities!

11. Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

12. Schroeder, do you think I'm beautiful?" "I think you're the most beautiful girl the world has ever known..." "You hate me, don't you?