No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
BILL WATTERSONAs “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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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 think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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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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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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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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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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