Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
BILL WATTERSONForm follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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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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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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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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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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