Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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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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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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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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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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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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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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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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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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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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