Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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More Bill Watterson Quotes
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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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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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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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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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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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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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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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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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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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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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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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