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.
BILL WATTERSONI’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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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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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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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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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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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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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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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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