I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
BILL WATTERSONA day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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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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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Do 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.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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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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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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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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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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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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