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.
BILL WATTERSONThere’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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