Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.


Calvin Hobbes

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CALVIN TRILLIN
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it ...
CALVIN TRILLIN
The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just th...
CALVIN TRILLIN
When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.
CALVIN TRILLIN
I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey.
CALVIN TRILLIN
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
CALVIN TRILLIN
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
CALVIN TRILLIN
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
CALVIN TRILLIN
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
CALVIN TRILLIN
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poe...
CALVIN TRILLIN
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant m...
CALVIN TRILLIN
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the ...
CALVIN TRILLIN
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
CALVIN TRILLIN
I've always thought that parallel parking was my main talent.
CALVIN TRILLIN
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like ...
CALVIN TRILLIN
I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
CALVIN TRILLIN
I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.
CALVIN KLEIN
Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store.
CALVIN KLEIN
I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain.
CALVIN KLEIN
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more th...
CALVIN KLEIN
I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that&#...
CALVIN KLEIN
I don't think about my fame very much.
CALVIN KLEIN
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribu...
CALVIN KLEIN
I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
CALVIN KLEIN
Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
CALVIN KLEIN
I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My...
CALVIN KLEIN
I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like gra...
CALVIN KLEIN
I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.
CALVIN KLEIN
I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted.
CALVIN KLEIN
I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and ...
CALVIN KLEIN
I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
CALVIN KLEIN
If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.
CALVIN KLEIN
I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
CALVIN KLEIN
You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried ...
CALVIN KLEIN
It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.
CALVIN KLEIN
Commercials capture your attention, that's all.
CALVIN KLEIN
I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill.
CALVIN KLEIN
I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else.
CALVIN KLEIN
The team doctor, the team trainers, they work for the team. And I love 'em, you know. They'r...
CALVIN JOHNSON
It's simple to get a concussion, you know. I don't know how many I've had over my career...
CALVIN JOHNSON
Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you k...
CALVIN JOHNSON
If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
CALVIN JOHNSON
You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see th...
CALVIN JOHNSON
I'm just a worker.
CALVIN JOHNSON