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.
BILL WATTERSONWeekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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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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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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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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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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