At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
BILL WATTERSONMs. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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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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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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