Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
BILL WATTERSONHey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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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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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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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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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
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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 problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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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.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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