It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
BILL WATTERSONRaised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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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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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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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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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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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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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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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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