I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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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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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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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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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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