Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
BILL WATTERSONIt’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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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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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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