Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
BILL WATTERSONIn 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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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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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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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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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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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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Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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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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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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