Bill Watterson Quotes (108 Quotes)

I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.

I think hiccup cures were really invented for the amusement of the patient's friends.

I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.

If you don't get a good night kiss, you get Kafka dreams.

Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?

People pay more attention when they think you're up to something.

Reading goes faster if you don't sweat comprehension.

The way Calvin's brain is wired you can almost hear the fuses blowing.

Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin.

You know what's the rage this year? ...Hats.

Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you cant add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

Calvin: Life's a lot more fun when you aren't responsible for your actions.

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?

I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.

Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

If you don't have anything to say just keep quiet Provoking a reaction isn't the same as saying something significant. Expressing ideas if you can't make them understood. You're just babling to yourself

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.

I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.

If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them you can stick them in any situation and have a pretty good idea of how they're going to respond. Then it's just a matter of sanding and polishing up the jokes. But if you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. These two characters clicked for me almost immediately and I feel very comfortable working with them.

The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

They can't chain my spirit My spirit runs free Walls can't contain it Laws can't restrain it Authority has no power over it.

To make a business decision, you don't need much philosophy all you need is greed, and maybe a little knowledge of how the game works.

We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

Mom and Dad can make the rulesAnd certain things forbid,But I can make them wish that theyhad never had a kid.

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work. Sometimes I work all day if I'm under a crunch I take a day off here and there if I have something else pressing or if I'm just tired of what I'm doing . . .

Calvin A 6-year-old boy who thinks like a grown-up and fantasizes like a child. Calvin is very frenetic, ... The thing I like about him is that he's very curious, and everything in the world is new to him.

To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.

I just read this great science fiction story. It's about how machines take control of humans and turn them into zombie slaves . . . HEY What time is it My TV show is on

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

Mom and Dad say I should make my life an example of the principles I believe in. But every time I do, they tell me to stop it.

You can lead people to the truth, but you can't make them understand it.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

I'd like to have the opportunity to draw this strip for years and see where it goes. It's sort of a scary thing now to imagine these cartoonists who've been drawing a strip for twenty years. I can't imagine coming up with that much material. If I just take it day by day, though, it's a lot of fun, and I do think I have a long way to go before I've exhausted the possibilities.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer conglomerates. Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously It's a beautiful world all right.

God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.

(W)hen I stopped understanding math and science, my choice was made.

Calvin's parents Unnamed because as far as the strip is concerned, they are important only as Calvin's mom and dad, ... I've tried to keep them realistic, with a reasonable sense of humor about having a kid like Calvin.

Let it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

Why isn't my life like a situation comedy Why don't I have a bunch of friends with nothing better to do but drop by and instigate wacky adventures Why aren't my conversations peppered with spontaneous witticisms Why don't my friends demonstrate heartfelt concern for my well being when I have problems ...I gotta get my life some writers.