It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
BILL WATTERSONIf your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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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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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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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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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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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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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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