Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone. -Hobbes Bill Watterson More Quotes by Bill Watterson More Quotes From Bill Watterson [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! 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. Bill Watterson scrabble vowels looks [Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It's me, Calvin! I was wondering if you'd like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy, I don't think you've ever invited me to... Calvin's Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin's Mom: You're contagious! You can't have anyone over to play! Calvin: Shhhh! Shhhh! You'll spoil the whole thing! I was going to trick Susie into catching... HEY! OW! LET GO! Susie: [Hanging up the phone] Any chance of getting transferred, Dad? Bill Watterson dad mom letting-go But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He's one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice! Bill Watterson demand sacrifice kind But for my own example, I'd never believe one little kid could have so much brains! Bill Watterson brain believe kids Every time I've built character, I've regretted it. Bill Watterson built character Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! 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! 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! Bill Watterson real stupid running Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Bill Watterson superhero league class Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship. Bill Watterson acid failing tests For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I am, well TOUGH BEANS! It's a free country! I don't need anyone's permission to be the way I want! This is who I am - Take it or leave it! Bill Watterson who-i-am country people I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here. Bill Watterson genes problem I'm a man of few words." "If you read more, you might have a larger vocabulary. Bill Watterson few-words vocabulary men The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing. Bill Watterson hobbes brain way I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin Bill Watterson hobbes novelty song 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. Bill Watterson undead zombie enough It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw. Bill Watterson lobotomy saws needs 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. I've been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander. Bill Watterson play years ideas Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste. Bill Watterson asking doe art Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what? Bill Watterson scary boys kids A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. Bill Watterson hobbes slips avoiding Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them. Bill Watterson tigers vans painting
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