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 WATTERSONEveryone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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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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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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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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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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