Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
BILL WATTERSONGod put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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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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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Calvin: 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.
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Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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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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Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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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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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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