Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
BILL WATTERSONIn the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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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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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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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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