Aspiring Dancer Gifts

Good parenting.

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

What else is there to wish for?

"I wanted to be a baseball player 'til I found out they send you to the showers."

"I'm gonna be a 'New Yorker' cartoonist. You're not supposed to understand it."

Children's Party

'And when your mother said that you would never be an Olympic gymnast, how did that make you feel?'

"My wife has always encouraged me... ...to quit this stupid dream and get a real job." ... "You have a wife?"

"Because when you're drafted by the pros, you'll have to be able to sign your contract. That's why you have to attend first grade."

'Miss Donahue would give him an F.'

'I really wanted to only take accounting courses, but my parents made me take this cartooning class so I would have something to fall back on.'

"Oh, don't mind that, it's just my body of unseen work."

Children's Imagination

Take a bow!

Early Bird Gets the Worm/Night Owl Does the Worm

"Obviously, I can't fly like you, but if you teach me, I can probably sing like you..."

A backup plan might be a good idea, in case 'being a celebrity' doesn't work out...

Dancing to Mobile Tunes

Bow

"Nobody at school will laugh at me."

Brian, I hope you're taking this seriously.

Cake Walk.

"If I had it all to do over again, I would have liked to be the King of Swing."

"That'll be the day!"

Charlie's medical advice always went in one ear and out the other.

"The extent of your extracurricular activities in high school, may very well be participation in regular program of oral hygiene using an effective decay preventaative tooth paste, but that won't get you into a good university."

"She gets her musical ability from me."

'It's great that you want a career in football, Timothy, but don't you think being a striker would be more fun than being a goalpost.'

'When you talk about playing, 'at the next level', you mean lawyering, right, not the NBA?'

"I've made a fortune as a successful artist! I couldn't see this happening if I became a soldier or a worker..."

"We thought we could put in the details later."

'I told my teacher that I won't be returning to school. I'm trying out for a pro basketball team, and her services are no longer required.'