If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
BILL WATTERSONLook! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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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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Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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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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