The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
Thomas Hobbes
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EUGENE O'NEILL Reality continues to ruin my life.
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BILL WATTERSON Watcha doin'?”
“Looking for frogs.”
“How come?”
“I must follow the inscru...
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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...
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“That’s thoughtful of you...
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BILL WATTERSON I've been thinking Hobbes"
"On a weekend?"
"Well, it wasn't on purpose
BILL WATTERSON Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.
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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 A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
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ROBERT N. C. NIX Some of us are born to a solitary life.
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THOMAS HARRIS I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
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DEAN KOONTZ I'm a misunderstood genius."
"What's misunderstood?"
"Nobody thinks I'm a genius.
BILL WATTERSON Until you stalk and overrun, you cannot devour anyone.
-Hobbes
BILL WATTERSON Man, I can assure you, is a nasty creature.
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THOMAS HARDY “You should be good enough at something else to know when to quit what you are bad at.”
JOHN LEACH This man [Thomas Cranmer] hath the sow by the right ear.
HENRY VIII Of course you know him. Everyone knows a pear-shaped man.
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PIYUSH LODHA I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another.
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THOMAS HARDY Eyeing her as a critic eyes a doubtful painting.
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IRWIN THOMAS People refer to me as 'that 'Love Boat' man.'
IRWIN THOMAS I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
IRWIN THOMAS I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
IRWIN THOMAS Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
IRWIN THOMAS My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pen...
IRWIN THOMAS When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thi...
IRWIN THOMAS I believe in the players and what I've put together and we'll make it work.
ISAIAH THOMAS Larry Brown thought Steve Francis was a Larry Brown type of player.
ISAIAH THOMAS All of those things had been talked about, suggested, rumored, as a manager and as a member of the K...
ISAIAH THOMAS I'll continue to try to make changes to better improve the team.
ISAIAH THOMAS We decided to go the way of trading and getting younger players.
ISAIAH THOMAS We were going to have to experiment, and we needed to develop our younger players. And a lot of the ...
ISAIAH THOMAS It's been made clear to all of us that a player should never leave the playing field and go into...
ISAIAH THOMAS My thought has always been completion. Maybe you have to rebound better, shoot better, hit free thro...
ISAIAH THOMAS The type of athletes we draft still need types of versatility on the defense side of the ball, run t...
ISAIAH THOMAS It wasn't about the X's and the O's and the strategy; it was more about keeping 12 guys ...
ISAIAH THOMAS Everybody wants to be perfect.
ISAIAH THOMAS You're always at war with the guy on the other bench. You pick up their patterns. That's wha...
ISAIAH THOMAS I love what I'm doing.
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