Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
BILL WATTERSONIsn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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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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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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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 like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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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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