[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
BILL WATTERSONReading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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