Bill Watterson on kids
Bill Watterson140 quotes“I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.”
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson Scientific Progress goes boink?
Bill WattersonBill Watterson 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 WattersonBill Watterson [Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
Bill WattersonBill Watterson 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 WattersonBill Watterson That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
Bill WattersonBill Watterson There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson 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.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson 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.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
Bill WattersonBill Watterson Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
Bill WattersonBill Watterson 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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Since you are gone, I collect the stars each night building my own night sky, so I have something to hold onto forever.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Can anybody hear me? Are my words going to waste I need to believe there was a purpose to all the pain?
Allie MillerAllie Miller The universe hears what you say, but it knows what you mean.
Brianna PastorBrianna Pastor Enough of this. The next one I love will return my passion.
Iestyn TudorIestyn Tudor It’s unconditional; their chemistry is unconditional – forever.
Ophelia ScarlettOphelia Scarlett I love you so much that it hurts and that’s the problem I love you so much that it hurts.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford Let’s always bloom, savor and delight others with our beauty.
Mariya FedulovaMariya Fedulova Shadows follow me the way a vulture stalks death. One small step ahead.
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Barbara KingsolverBarbara Kingsolver The sound of madness is life. It’s waking up in the morning to your alarm clock, your kid crying for you, hearing the sound of the city, it’s everything.
Barry KerchBarry Kerch Homecoming’s stupid.” And it is. Buch of kids looking for excuses to grope eachother all night.
Barry LygaBarry Lyga I did. I did see Bigfoot when I was a kid and I still believe it to this day. I saw a big furry man outside my window. It’s not funny! It was real.
Barry WatsonBarry Watson I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school… I wasn’t a popular kid. I was an outcast.
Barry ZitoBarry Zito If you were a young kid, 19, 20 years old who has two children and a third one on the way and refuses to leave them.
Barry WhiteBarry White R&B is everything. Hip Hop, Soul, Gospel and Classical Blues are everything. All of that makes sense in BJ The Chicago Kid and what we do.
B.J. The Chicago KidB.J. The Chicago Kid The day you realize you’re a grownup is the day you realize that you have to do something. When we’re kids, we don’t have to do anything. Then all of a sudden you realize, if I want this to be better, I’ve got to do something.
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