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 WATTERSONThe 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
-
-
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
BILL WATTERSON -
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
BILL WATTERSON -
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
BILL WATTERSON -
If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
BILL WATTERSON -
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
BILL WATTERSON -
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
BILL WATTERSON -
It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
BILL WATTERSON -
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
BILL WATTERSON -
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.
BILL WATTERSON -
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
BILL WATTERSON -
Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
BILL WATTERSON -
Scientific Progress goes boink?
BILL WATTERSON -
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
BILL WATTERSON -
I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
BILL WATTERSON -
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
BILL WATTERSON -
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
BILL WATTERSON -
I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
BILL WATTERSON -
What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
BILL WATTERSON -
What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
BILL WATTERSON -
Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
BILL WATTERSON -
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
BILL WATTERSON -
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
BILL WATTERSON -
I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
BILL WATTERSON -
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
BILL WATTERSON -
I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
BILL WATTERSON -
Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
BILL WATTERSON