I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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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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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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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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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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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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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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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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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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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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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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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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Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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