Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
BILL WATTERSONI thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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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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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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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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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Raised 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?
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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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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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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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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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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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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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