Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
BILL WATTERSONWhen life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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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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Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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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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Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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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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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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