Bill Watterson Quotes - Page 7

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• I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.

  Bill Watterson

  Hate, Thinking, Stories

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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• Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

  Bill Watterson

  Fun, Action, Hobbes

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• Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

  Bill Watterson

  Want, Favourite, Careful

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• Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

  Bill Watterson

  Indulge In, Excess, Financial

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

  Bill Watterson

  Funny, Moving, School

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• Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

  Bill Watterson

  Comforting, Too Late, Late

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• They can't chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can't contain it! Laws can't restrain it! Authority has no power over it!

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Wall, Law

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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.

  Bill Watterson

  Motivation, School, Ideas

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• I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

  Bill Watterson

  Ideas, Trying, Detours

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

  Bill Watterson

  Use, Firsts, Hobbes

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

  Bill Watterson

  Water, Thirsty

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• I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Would Be, Knows

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

  Bill Watterson

  Appreciate, Miracle, Too Late

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

  Bill Watterson

  Needs, Life Is, Surprise

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

  Bill Watterson

  Baby, Dad, Light

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• Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

  Bill Watterson

  Book, Chocolate, Bed

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• Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

  Bill Watterson

  Witty, Two, Remember

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• The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

  Bill Watterson

  Reality, Issues, Special

  Bill Watterson (1995). “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

  Bill Watterson

  Winning, Snow, Hobbes

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• Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Meaningful, Jobs, Book

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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• Hold it. You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?

  Bill Watterson

  Pigs, Riding, Three

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• When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

  Bill Watterson

  Hilarious, Fun, Giving

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• Mothers are the necessity of invention.

  Bill Watterson

  Mother, Motherhood, Invention

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• I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

  Bill Watterson

  Education, School, Want

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Car, Mind

  "Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled". Bill Watterson's commencement speech at the Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 20, 1990.

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