Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
BILL WATTERSONHaving an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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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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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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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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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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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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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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