God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
BILL WATTERSONFor me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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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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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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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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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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