Jeff Smith famous quotes

03-24-2025

Upon your feet you have ten toes, they look just like PO-TA-TOES!
-- Jeff Smith

#Feet #Looks #Toes
Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
-- Jeff Smith

#Stupid #Rats #Creatures
Smiley Bone: You can't feel safe unless there's something to be safe against! Phoney Bone: Exactly! People like to be victims! There's a certain unassailable moral superiority about it...
-- Jeff Smith

#People #Safe #Moral
Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!
-- Jeff Smith

#Maps #Problem #Bones
CONTROL MYSELF?!! I'm a MONSTER! Monsters don't control themselves! That's the whole IDEA!
-- Jeff Smith

#Ideas #Monsters
I'm so hungry, comrade! It has been days since we ate those two raccoons!' 'I know comrade. I'm even beginning to wish we had some of your homemade quiche!' 'Oh comrade! Do you mean it?' 'Hey--Hey! None of that! If you ever tell anyone I said that, I'll deny it!
-- Jeff Smith

#Mean #Two #Wish
All kids draw some kind of cartoon characters. They just grow out of them, and I didn't
-- Jeff Smith

#Character #Kids #Cartoon
The design process, at its best, integrates the aspirations of art, science, and culture.
-- Jeff Smith

#Art #Design Process #Culture
Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.
-- Jeff Smith

#Food #Class #Giving
Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.
-- Jeff Smith

#Food #Cooking #Recipes
Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy.
-- Jeff Smith

#Joy #Cooking #Heat
The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people.
-- Jeff Smith

#Food #People #Cooking
How can people say they don't eat eggplant when God loves the color and the French love the name? I don't under'stand.
-- Jeff Smith

#Food #Godly #Eggplant
I think the audience is truly all ages: I don't put anything in there that kids can't see, or shouldn't see, but I have to keep it interesting for me as an adult
-- Jeff Smith

#Kids #Thinking #Interesting
I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.
-- Jeff Smith

#Book #Reading #Years
Serve this dish with much too much wine for your guests, along with some cooked green vegetables and a huge salad. You will be famous in about half an hour.
-- Jeff Smith

#Food #Wine #Vegetables
[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.
-- Jeff Smith

#Motivation #Inspiration #Needs
Feasting is also closely related to memory. We eat certain things in a particular way in order to remember who we are. Why else would you eat grits in Madison, New Jersey?
-- Jeff Smith

#Memories #Food #Order
I don't go for the nouvelle approach - serving a rabbit rump with coffee extract sauce and a slice of kiwi fruit.
-- Jeff Smith

#Coffee #Food #Cooking
The squid is so cooperative. Its body forms a tube that can be stuffed with marvelous fillings. You don't have to be Greek to enjoy this one.
-- Jeff Smith

#Food #Squids #Greek
I attended the Columbus College Of Art & Design for a little while, until I realized they didn't take cartooning very seriously.
-- Jeff Smith

#Art #College #Design
That's right, kid. Never play an ace if a two will do.
-- Jeff Smith

#Kids #Play #Two
I think people have a little wall they throw up real quick if they see swords and sorcery.
-- Jeff Smith

#Wall #Real #Thinking
Slaves were taught to be fine chefs, but they endangered their lives if they made a mistake or served an ill-prepared dish. Rather than being reprimanded, they were often hauled into the dining room and flogged in the presence of the guests.
-- Jeff Smith

#Mistake #Food #Dining
Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.
-- Jeff Smith

#Metaphor #Myth #Allegory
As I got into the animation, as I learned more about the business, I learned that you need a lot of people to do anything animated - even a short, let alone a feature film. And you need a lot of money.
-- Jeff Smith

#People #Needs #Film

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