Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

Quote by Bill Watterson

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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live...

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live...

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity....

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity....

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now...

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now...

The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do...

The more you think about things, the weirder they seem. Take this milk. Why do...

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of...

Why isn't my life like a situation comedy? Why don't I have a bunch of...

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas...

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas...

You should stick with what you enjoy, what you find funny -- that's the humor...

You should stick with what you enjoy, what you find funny -- that's the humor...

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has...

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has...

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously...

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously...

I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by...

I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by...

Hollywood is a door leading to a thousand doors.

Hollywood is a door leading to a thousand doors.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.