I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
BILL WATTERSONNothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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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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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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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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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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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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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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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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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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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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