Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
BILL WATTERSONIn the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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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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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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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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We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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