There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
BILL WATTERSONThe problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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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 learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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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.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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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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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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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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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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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 been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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