Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
BILL WATTERSONLook! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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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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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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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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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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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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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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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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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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