Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
BILL WATTERSONLeader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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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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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 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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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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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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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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