Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
BILL WATTERSONVan Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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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 don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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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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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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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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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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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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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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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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