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.
BILL WATTERSONGetting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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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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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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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.
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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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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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