Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
BILL WATTERSONI tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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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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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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