The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
BILL WATTERSONGod put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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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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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.
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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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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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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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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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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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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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