"CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give……" — Bill Watterson
"CALVIN: Isn't it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it's weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity. We laugh at nonsense. We like it. We think it's funny. Don't you think it's odd that we appreciate absurdity? Why would we develop that way? How does it benefit us? HOBBES: I suppose if we couldn't laugh at the things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life."
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259 Quotes by Bill Watterson
Bill Watterson has 259 quotes on this site.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn't have paid for me.
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It's a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it's light out.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.
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Genius is never understood in its own time.
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Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of…
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A real job is a job you hate.
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Repetition is the death of magic.
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Yeah, but actually, I've got the same questions about God.
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Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction…
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That's love?!?..... Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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My turn of mind is so given to taking things in the absurd point of view, that it breaks out…
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
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The vested interests-if we explain the situation by their influence-can only get the public to act as they wish by…
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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and…
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Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination,…
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