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.
BILL WATTERSONWe don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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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: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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