I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
BILL WATTERSONMy problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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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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Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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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.
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Calvin: 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.
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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