Bill Watterson: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Calvin: Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in…But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.
p.140”

“The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse”

“HOBBES:
All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.”

“I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.”

“Calvin: It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
p19”

“That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.”

“Why waste time learning when ignorance is instantaneous.
---Hobbes”

“HOBBES:
If you don't get a goodnight kiss you get Kafka dreams.”

“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”

“Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?”

“People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.”

“I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.”

“We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.”

“Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.”

“I liked things better when I didn't understand them.”

“HOBBES:
Virtue needs some cheaper thrills.”

“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.”

“Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.”

“I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.”