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.
BILL WATTERSONI’d hate to have a kid like me.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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In 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.
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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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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What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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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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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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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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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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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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At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It’s a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you’ll probably take a few.
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