Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
BILL WATTERSONA little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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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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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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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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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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