Bill Watterson citations

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“Calvin (en tant que Spiff) : Spiff le spationaute est touché! Il fonce vers la planète Mok. Pourvu qu'il y ait un garage ouvert.”

“L'enfance c'est fait pour gâcher la vie des adultes.”

“If you can't win by reason, go for volume.”

“Careful. We don't want to learn from this.”

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

“The problem about the future is that it keeps turning into the present.”

“Calvin: I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
p86”

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

“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?”

“CALVIN:
When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.”

“Years from now, when I'm successful and happy,… and he's in prison… I hope I'm not too mature to gloat.”

“CALVIN:
As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.”

“I'm related to people I don't relate to.”

“Calvin: History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
p152”

“I'm not a vegetarian! I'm a dessertarian!”

“People pay more attention when they think you’re up to something.”

“Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!”

“In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.”

“For no reason I can think of, I've wandered far astray. And that is how I got to where I find myself today.”

“I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.”

“The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.”

“Calvin: Know what I pray for?
Hobbes: What?
Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.”

“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?”