The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
BILL WATTERSONEven when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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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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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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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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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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