A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
BILL WATTERSONIt’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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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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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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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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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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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 can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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