Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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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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I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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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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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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