You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
BILL WATTERSONI’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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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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The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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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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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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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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Calvin: Isn’t it strange that evolution would give us a sense of humor? When you think about it, it’s weird that we have a physiological response to absurdity.
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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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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.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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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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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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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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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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