I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
BILL WATTERSONI’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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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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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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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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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.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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