MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
BILL WATTERSONIf 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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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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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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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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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’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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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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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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