Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
BILL WATTERSONI 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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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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At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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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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I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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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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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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