I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
BILL WATTERSONIf people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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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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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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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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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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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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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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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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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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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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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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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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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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