So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
BILL WATTERSONA little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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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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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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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.
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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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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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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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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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.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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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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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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