Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
BILL WATTERSONIf 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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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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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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