Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
BILL WATTERSONWe 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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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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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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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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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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