I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
BILL WATTERSONVan Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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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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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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