Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
BILL WATTERSONYears from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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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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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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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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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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