Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
BILL WATTERSONI hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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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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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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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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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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