WIST Quotations

Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)

Dave — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:41:21 +0000

CALVIN: I think grown-ups just act like they know what they’re doing.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1991-02-18)
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Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1995-05-09)

Dave — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:49:53 +0000

CALVIN: How come grown-ups don’t go out to play?

CALVIN’S DAD: Grown-ups can only justify playing outside by calling it exercise, doing it when they’d rather not, and keeping records to quantify their performance.

CALVIN: That sounds like a job.

CALVIN’S DAD: … Except you don’t get paid.

CALVIN: So play is worse than work?

CALVIN’S DAD: Being a grown-up is tough.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1995-05-09)
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Lewis, C.S. -- “On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” lecture, Library Association Bournemouth Conference (29 Apr – 2 May 1952)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) English writer, literary scholar, lay theologian [Clive Staples Lewis]
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children,” lecture, Library Association Bournemouth Conference (29 Apr – 2 May 1952)
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Reprinted in On Stories (1966). Referencing 1 Corinthians 13:11.

Doctor Who (1963) -- 12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18) [w. Terrance Dicks]

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

SARAH JANE: Doctor, you’re being childish!

THE DOCTOR: Well, of course I am! There’s no point in being grown-up if you can’t be childish sometimes.

Doctor Who (1963-1989) British science fiction television series, original run (BBC)
12×01 “Robot,” Part 4 (1975-01-18) [w. Terrance Dicks]
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See Robert Holmes.