It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
BILL WATTERSONI can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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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 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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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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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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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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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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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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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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Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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