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.
BILL WATTERSONWeekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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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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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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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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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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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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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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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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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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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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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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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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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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