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 WATTERSONI’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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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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.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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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.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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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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