Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
BILL WATTERSONThat’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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