You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
BILL WATTERSONThe strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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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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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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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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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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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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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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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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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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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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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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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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