#strip

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#anything #away #because #began #benefits

Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip. ↗

— Paul Scofield

#comic #comic strip #like #plagiarizing #quiz

The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#effortless #emotionally #i #i am #nearly

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#find #hollywood #phony #real #strip

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter. ↗

— Roy Lichtenstein

#comic #comic strips #gas #i #interesting

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other. ↗

— Barry McGuire

#build #built #each #five #gradually

Polls? Nah... they're for strippers and cross country skiers. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#cross #cross country #nah #polls #skiers

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity. ↗

— Jean Paul

#around #away #coming #concealed #distant

I would have made a lousy stripper. I'm just not very comfortable exposing myself. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#exposing #i #just #lousy #made

I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip. ↗

— Ted Rall

#i #i think #radical #strip #think