Bob Mankoff quote: "I mean, picture this: You're in the middle of reading a very important article in The New Yorker, and then you're laughing because you got distracted by a cartoon, and you have to go to the bathroom because of all the laughing ... come on people, please keep the humor at a minimum."

Now we have to devote the rest of our lives to cross country to validate the clothes.
BOB MANKOFF

Once you cartoon for a few years, you can't possibly do anything else. Everything else just feels li...
BOB MANKOFF

It turned out to be more than just me falling down over and over again.
BOB MANKOFF

It was one that came from real life. I was having trouble getting through to a fellow cartoonist. He...
BOB MANKOFF

We've been recession proof, which is nice. There has never been in a slump at the Cartoon Bank.
BOB MANKOFF

The New Yorker is open, just like the New York Yankees are open. All you have to do is hit it over t...
BOB MANKOFF

brings in millions of dollars a year.
BOB MANKOFF

[The Web site also gives the creator a way to fight back against the sense that you are only as good...
BOB MANKOFF

The New Yorker is synonymous with the magazine cartoon, ... and this extends the brand because we've...
BOB MANKOFF

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short ...
ROBERT MANKOFF

Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic ...
ROBERT MANKOFF

I was the founder of the 'Cartoon Bank' in the '90s. I was interested in finding ways fo...
ROBERT MANKOFF

I think funny is just the foundation. I don't really think, to some extent, funny is the absolut...
ROBERT MANKOFF

Professional humorists and cartoonists have to go through a stage in which they have to kill their o...
ROBERT MANKOFF

One question about a joke is, how well is the strangeness of the situation resolved? At 'The New...
ROBERT MANKOFF

I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'l...
ROBERT MANKOFF

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.
ROBERT MANKOFF

There's public humor, and there's private humor, and they're all appropriate in their ow...
ROBERT MANKOFF

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
BOB DYLAN

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our las...
BOB WELLS

And I came away from that experience, and it was a very difficult experience - I came to understand ...
BOB SCHIEFFER

I believe Watergate shows that the system did work. Particularly the Judiciary and the Congress, and...
BOB WOODWARD

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
BOB DYLAN

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
BOB DYLAN

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic par...
BOB BEAUPREZ

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?
BOB MARLEY

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.
BOB MCNAIR

If something can corrupt you, you're corrupted already.
BOB MARLEY

None but ourselves can free our minds.
BOB MARLEY

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.
BOB MARLEY

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can't be entertained - or people who are a...
BOB MARLEY

Me don't dip on nobody's side. Me don't dip on the black man's side, not the white m...
BOB MARLEY

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with lif...
BOB MARLEY

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
BOB MARLEY

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.
BOB MARLEY

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts...
BOB MARLEY

I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I s...
BOB MARLEY

What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind.
BOB MARLEY

Tell the children the truth.
BOB MARLEY

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for ...
BOB MARLEY

I don't believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.
BOB MARLEY

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.
BOB MARLEY

You have to be someone.
BOB MARLEY

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.
BOB MARLEY

My future is righteousness.
BOB MARLEY

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that...
BOB MARLEY

You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
BOB PARSONS

I believe, I believe every day is a good day when you paint.
BOB ROSS

My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die.
BOB MARLEY

I can only get my drummer in the winter; he plays with Grand Funk all summer.
BOB SEGER

Life is just a bowl of cherries, don't take it serious, its mysterious. Life is just a bowl of c...
BOB FOSSE

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
BOB MARLEY

Man is a universe within himself.
BOB MARLEY

Me only have one ambition, y'know. I only have one thing I really like to see happen. I like to ...
BOB MARLEY

The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
BOB WOODWARD

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN

The devil ain't got no power over me. The devil come, and me shake hands with the devil. Devil h...
BOB MARLEY

When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick com...
BOB NEWHART

The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are ...
BOB EDWARDS

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage...
BOB BARR

God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, th...
BOB MARLEY

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet a...
BOB MARLEY

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you're supposed to use whatev...
BOB MARLEY

There's no use in the prime minister coming to Scotland unless he's prepared to do this deal. Unless...
BOB GELDOF

Italy ... is the least generous of the developed world with regard to aid and that is a shame. We as...
BOB GELDOF

Paul, join the club, dude. It's not that hard.
BOB GELDOF

We live in a broken world which has never been healthier, wealthier or bizarrely, free of conflict, ...
BOB GELDOF

I understand this is a process but the process should have been accelerated and added to at the UN.
BOB GELDOF

You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical -- ...
BOB GELDOF

If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder a...
BOB GELDOF

I will be extremely active in trying to get these people thrown out of office.
BOB GELDOF

I don't think anyone sets out to malign poor people but certainly that's what we do through organiza...
BOB GELDOF

I never eat anything white.. white flour, white milk, white cream, eggwhites, white sugar, white pot...
BOB CUMMINGS

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7.
BOB COUSY

Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. ...
BOB UECKER

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shop...
BOB GOODLATTE

Every Maryland family wants financial security, schools that work, quality healthcare, safer neighbo...
BOB EHRLICH

I got a tooth bust by somebody who decided they didn't like me and I thought the moustache hid a...
BOB AINSWORTH

I think that cable TV is a great venue to do something interesting.
BOB ODENKIRK

After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might thi...
BOB BEAUPREZ

Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.
BOB MCDONNELL

When you hear in the tape recordings Nixon's own voice saying, We have to stonewall, We have to ...
BOB WOODWARD

Homeowners and business owners across the country agreed to pay premiums, communities agreed to adop...
BOB NEY

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw ...
BOB DYLAN

For computer communications, computers talk in little bursts. They're not continuous like speech...
BOB KAHN

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by v...
BOB DYLAN

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
BOB DYLAN

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
BOB DYLAN

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
BOB DYLAN

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusion...
BOB DYLAN

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know fo...
BOB DYLAN

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade ...
BOB DYLAN

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
BOB DYLAN

There is nothing so stable as change.
BOB DYLAN

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
BOB DYLAN

Having power and being in a position of power can really blur your judgement, and it's not alway...
BOB MORLEY

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.
BOB WICKMAN

My first presidential primary vote was for Bobby Kennedy.
BOB GUNTON

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
BOB DYLAN

I signed a very modest $3,000 bonus with the Braves in Milwaukee. And my old man didn't have tha...
BOB UECKER

Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.
BOB FERRIS

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching doo...
BOB BEAUPREZ

The real enemy" is the totality of physical and mental constraints by which capital, or class societ...
BOB BLACK

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stu...
BOB BLACK

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shoul...
BOB MENENDEZ

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings...
BOB NEY

Not bragging by any means, but I could have done a lot of other stuff as far as working in films go ...
BOB UECKER

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.
BOB IGER

I'm committed to increasing long-term value for shareholders and am confident we will continue t...
BOB IGER

Traditionally, art has been for the select few. We have been brainwashed to believe that Michelangel...
BOB ROSS

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
BOB MARLEY

My bladder cancer was related to smoking, and I think smoking kills people.
BOB SCHIEFFER

To get, give.
BOB ROTH

They say it is a wide road that leads to war and only a narrow path that leads home again.
BOB MASSIE

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
BOB DYLAN

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
BOB EDWARDS

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect. But if he can mak...
BOB MARLEY

Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
BOB MARLEY

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...
BOB DYLAN

They all laughed when I said I'd become a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now.
BOB MONKHOUSE

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
BOB MARLEY

Wake up and live
BOB MARLEY

Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy
BOB MARLEY

In high seas or in low seas,
I'm gonna be your friend...
I'm gonna be your friend.
In...
BOB MARLEY

Don't Gain The World & Lose Your Soul, Wisdom Is Better Than Silver Or Gold.
BOB MARLEY

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
BOB DYLAN

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
BOB MARLEY

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around....
BOB MARLEY

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha...
BOB DYLAN

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
BOB DYLAN

If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you won...
BOB MARLEY

One love, one heart, one destiny.
BOB MARLEY

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she lov...
BOB MARLEY

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability t...
BOB MARLEY

The only thing chicken about Israel is their soup.
BOB HOPE

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast. About Russia
BOB HOPE

Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans.
BOB GELDOF

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
BOB DYLAN

Ingenuity, plus courage, plus work, equals miracles.
BOB RICHARDS

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...
BOB DYLAN

The best way to help poor people is to not be one of them.
BOB HARRINGTON

Don't let them fool ya,
Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!
We've got a mind of our own,
So g...
BOB MARLEY

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
BOB EDWARDS

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be j...
BOB DYLAN

You are what you think. You are what you go for. You are what you do!
BOB RICHARDS

I won it, at least five million times. Men who were stronger, bigger and faster than I was could hav...
BOB RICHARDS

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.
BOB KNIGHT

Kids are wonderful, but I like mine barbecued.
BOB HOPE

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
BOB HOPE

Music can't change the world.
BOB GELDOF

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century a...
BOB DYLAN

When I joined the Tour I studied the best players to see what they did that I didn't do. I came to t...
BOB TOSKI

When you're in a relationship, you're always surrounded by a ring of circumstances... joined togethe...
BOB SEGER

Go out and buy yourself a five-cent pencil and a ten-cent notebook and begin to write down some mill...
BOB GRINDE

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does wha...
BOB DYLAN

Behind every successful man there's a lot of unsuccessful years.
BOB BROWN

One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No ma...
BOB RICHARDS

A faith to live by, a self to live with, and a purpose to live for.
BOB HARRINGTON

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way what...
BOB DYLAN

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedo...
BOB DYLAN

Is not that a great principle for all of living? The people who will really accomplish great things ...
BOB RICHARDS

Hate is such a luxurious emotion, it can only be spent on one we love.
BOB UDKOFF

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napole...
BOB DYLAN

To live outside the law, you must be honest.
BOB DYLAN

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
BOB DYLAN

Fear of the pain blinds us to the goal of healing. Only by seeing our problems clearly and experienc...
BOB HOFFMAN

You have to penetrate a woman's defenses. Getting into her head is a prerequisite to getting into he...
BOB GUCCIONE

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and ther...
BOB DYLAN

We know smoking tobacco is not good for kids, but a lot of other things aren't good. Drinking's not ...
BOB DOLE

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
BOB DYLAN

Eulogies are like babies. They're more pleasurable to create than to deliver.
BOB BLAZICH

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN

He (Bob Marley) had this idea, it was kind of a virologist idea, he believed he could cure racism an...
BOB MARLEY

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
BOB DYLAN

I
BOB HOPE

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturb...
BOB DYLAN

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
BOB DYLAN

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.
BOB HAWKE

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, yo...
BOB DYLAN

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
BOB DYLAN

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
BOB BEAMON

Those who cultivate moral confusion for profit should understand this: we will name their names and ...
BOB DOLE

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
BOB DYLAN

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has ...
BOB ANDERSON

Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, b...
BOB DYLAN

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how thin...
BOB DYLAN

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
BOB HOPE

Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
BOB KNIGHT

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
BOB KNIGHT

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
BOB DYLAN

Quality begins on the inside... and then works its way out.
BOB MOAWAD

Silicon Valley is like a person running around in front of a steamroller. You can outrun the steamro...
BOB BOSCHERT

If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left...
BOB EDWARDS

I do benefits for all religions -- I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
BOB HOPE

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting y...
BOB DYLAN

If I were asked for a one line answer to the question What makes a woman good in bed? I would say, A...
BOB GUCCIONE

Boxing is a rather amorphous body, though recognizable because it is headless.
BOB VERDI

I drive a jeep. An old jeep, so nobody will say I'm driving a BMW anymore. I couldn't stand that B...
BOB MARLEY

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete i...
BOB GIBSON

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and te...
BOB GELDOF

I mean, picture this: You're in the middle of reading a very important article in The New Yorker, and then you're laughing because you got distracted by a cartoon, and you have to go to the bathroom because of all the laughing ... come on people, please keep the humor at a minimum.

Bob Mankoff

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