[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
BILL WATTERSONI hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Scientific Progress goes boink?
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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 keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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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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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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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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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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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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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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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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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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