If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
BILL WATTERSONSomeday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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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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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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