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.
BILL WATTERSONI think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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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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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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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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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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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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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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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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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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