I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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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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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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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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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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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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