When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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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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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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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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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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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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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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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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