Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
BILL WATTERSONIf you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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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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It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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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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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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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 liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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