You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
BILL WATTERSONThe strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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