At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
BILL WATTERSONWhat’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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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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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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