Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
BILL WATTERSONI’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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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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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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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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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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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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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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