Hobbes might be a little closer to me in terms of personality, with Calvin being more energetic, brash, always looking for life on the edge. He lives entirely in the present, and whatever he can do to make that moment more exciting he'll just let fly . . . and I'm really not like that at all.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin BILL WATTERSON You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 'That's why animals are s... BILL WATTERSON Bill Watterson, creator of the extremely popular 'Calvin and Hobbes,' did know when to quit ... RON GOULART CALVIN: Hey, I got some mail! It's a Valentine card. HOBBES: From Susie Derkins! CALVIN: ... BILL WATTERSON [Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble.] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Dou... BILL WATTERSON Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I didn't want to be in hell, even for a moment. I sure as hell wasn't going there just to spit in th... ANNE RICE He loved the game and always did whatever he could do to get the edge. He worked with me a lot and w... JANICE KRUGER Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow. JIM GENOVESE The thought is to really provide a more exciting experience for kids, to let them see what life on a... HOLLY MILLER I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD He brought that competitive edge. Hate is a strong word, but he despised losing. He would do anythin... TOMMY ALBELIN It just showed me the type of person he is, that he was glad that he was here and whatever he could ... BARRY ALVAREZ Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY We’re always looking for “right” conditions that we don’t yet have to make us happy. We igno... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Don't trust children with edge tools. Don't trust man, great God, with more power than he has until ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I can only speak for myself, but when I was growing up in Memphis - and having the Martin Luther Kin... KATORI HALL Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, c... PUBLIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS Calvin: Do you believe in the devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, c... PROVERB He kind of let me know what he wants out of me. I know that he wants more rebounding with a small li... DERMARR JOHNSON Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. W... PHILIP PULLMAN At the moment, McCain fits the bill of the type of candidate Republicans are looking for, in light o... DICK BENNETT He always calls himself the old guy. He says, 'All right guys, the old guy's in here, we might need ... CASEY RABACH Dauntless,' he says. 'I was born for Abnegation. I was planning on leaving Dauntless, and becoming f... VERONICA ROTH Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder To the faults about me; Let me praise a little... SOURCE UNKNOWN Get pass your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future. JOHNNIE DENT JR. He caught me with an elbow in the face and I hit the edge of the boards. He's just a guy that plays ... MATIC KRALJ I should love to do a novel... about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary l... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH People can be cruel,' he says with a sympathetic look that makes me trust him even more. And right t... MATTHEW QUICK It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies, character-driven stuf... TATIANA MASLANY Mindfulness is not entering into another planet. It is making you good at what you do. It is restori... AMIT RAY This is where dad burried the little raccoon. I don't even know he existed a few days ago and n... BILL WATTERSON Watcha doin'?” “Looking for frogs.” “How come?” “I must follow the inscru... BILL WATTERSON Mom says death is as natural as birth, and it's all part of the life cycle. She says we don't r... BILL WATTERSON Scientific Progress goes boink? BILL WATTERSON I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or i... BILL WATTERSON County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the probl... BILL WATTERSON Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you... BILL WATTERSON Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of borin... BILL WATTERSON I've been thinking Hobbes" "On a weekend?" "Well, it wasn't on purpose BILL WATTERSON Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin. BILL WATTERSON Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions. BILL WATTERSON Today for show & tell, I've brought in some flash cards I made. Each card has a letter followed ... BILL WATTERSON How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food and beer conglomerate... BILL WATTERSON I'm leaking brain lubricant. BILL WATTERSON Oh lovely snowball, packed with care, smack a head that's unaware! Then with freezing ice to spare, ... BILL WATTERSON My book is called, "Shut Up And Stop Whining: How To Do Something With Your Life Besides Think About... BILL WATTERSON Idiocy is the essence of the male mind. BILL WATTERSON It's a funny world, Hobbes." "True." "But it's not a hilarious world.…unless you like si... BILL WATTERSON I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, i... FRANK BLACK He's got to be more selective in what he swings at. And if we can do something with the lineup and p... BILL GEIVETT The most important thing I learnt on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die... KURT VONNEGUT Lately coach has been telling me to be more aggressive and want the ball more. He tells me that he c... LAMARCUS ALDRIDGE I always say that when I was recording with Phil Spector, he would not let me really sing, you know?... DARLENE LOVE Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live. STEVE GOODIER A man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something that he thinks will make... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER He (Miller) would do well to let the people at GM run General Motors and focus on whatever the hell ... RICHARD SHOEMAKER Man surprised me most about humanity. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. ... JAMES J. LACHARD Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always f... JACK KEROUAC Whatever I do in life, my parents always taught me to focus on that, and they never let me quit. CASSIE SCERBO Christian has a free role to do whatever, ... I didn't have that before, but now, my teammates and m... FREDDY ADU Consider the quality of life. A single person might want a more cosmopolitan area with an exciting n... GIGI GAO His success speaks for itself; probably that has more to do with his personality. He's comfortable a... BARBARA GROSS It's exciting because I went with my brother on all his college visits, but this is the first time I... HEATHER BUCK God is looking for a willing heart. He is searching for few like Easther....who will say if I perish... PATIENCE JOHNSON Do you suppose, gentlemen, that our children as they grow up and begin to reason can avoid such ques... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY He recently told me he felt he had completed the (organization plan) and wanted at some soon point t... BARRY DILLER When he gets a tech, he always seems to be a little more in tune with what's going on. We ran his pl... CHAUNCEY BILLUPS That's how he is. When he's out on the field, he becomes a madman. I figure that's when he knows it'... CLARK HAGGANS You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. ... GEORGE ELIOT I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ... PUSHA T Reality continues to ruin my life. BILL WATTERSON I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness. BILL WATTERSON Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if w... THICH NHAT HANH Galen was very quiet last year. He did what he did, but he was very quiet. Now he?s more out there. ... MICHAEL ROBINSON In fact no one recognizes the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it. It may well be t... ORHAN PAMUK I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present... K. FLAY It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it... IAN MCDIARMID Is it not eminently just that I should give myself entirely and without reserve to Him Who drew me o... FATHER JOHN NICHOLAS GROU, S.J. Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE There is still a lot more to be learned. I [haven?t] played against nobody like that. Me, I've got t... DEMORRIO WILLIAMS I can completely lose myself into just absolutely satisfying things - a really amazing cheeseburger,... CHANNING TATUM Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN Today is the tomorrow we were were anxiously waiting for yesterday. We must embrace it with our whol... ETTA SAWYERR Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY He swore by all that he ever had loved and reverenced that he would try, try with all his might in t... GENE STRATTON-PORTER No more quickly can a person rob you of your joy and peace than when that individual succeeds at mak... C. JOYBELL C. Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know ... MILAN KUNDERA Moviemaking is just really neat, and I really like doing that. I'd like to get into it more, but... FRANK PERETTI And just for the record, I think he needed to be a little more assertive with the woman he loved. Th... JANICE HANNA
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How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to ... BILL WATTERSON If something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 minutes, than it's probably not worth... BILL WATTERSON You can lead people to the truth, but you can't make them understand it. BILL WATTERSON How come we play war and not peace?" "Too few role models. BILL WATTERSON Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of cons... BILL WATTERSON Now what state do you live in?' 'Denial. BILL WATTERSON Mothers are the necessity of invention. BILL WATTERSON I learned about what I love. Imagination, deep friendship, animals, family, the natural world, ideas... BILL WATTERSON I was not prepared for the resulting attention. Besides disliking the diminishment of privacy and th... BILL WATTERSON I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. BILL WATTERSON At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find the inner mo... BILL WATTERSON Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these ... BILL WATTERSON Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better t... BILL WATTERSON By golly, life's too darn short to waste time trying to please every meddlesome moron who's got an i... BILL WATTERSON A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be... BILL WATTERSON I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor? BILL WATTERSON Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster th... BILL WATTERSON It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves. BILL WATTERSON It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept. BILL WATTERSON [Calvin: A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child.] Calvin is very fr... BILL WATTERSON