I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
BILL WATTERSONDo you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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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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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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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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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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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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