I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
BILL WATTERSONI like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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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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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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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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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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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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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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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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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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