You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
BILL WATTERSONIt’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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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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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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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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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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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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