I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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