No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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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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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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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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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What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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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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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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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 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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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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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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