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.
BILL WATTERSONWeekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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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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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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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 suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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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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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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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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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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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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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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