Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
BILL WATTERSONI don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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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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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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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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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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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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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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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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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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