Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
BILL WATTERSONMy likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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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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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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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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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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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 suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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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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