You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
BILL WATTERSONReading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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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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If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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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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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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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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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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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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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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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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The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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