If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
BILL WATTERSONYou have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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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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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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I 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.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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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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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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