We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
BILL WATTERSON[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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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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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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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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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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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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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.
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I’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.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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