The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: 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.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get 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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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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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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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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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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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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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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