Bill Watterson Quotes - Page 3

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

If you can't win by reason, go for volume.

If you do the job badly enough, sometimes you don't get asked to do it again.

The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

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

I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

Did you ever wonder if the person in the puddle is real, and you're just a reflection of him?

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

A REAL job is a job you hate.

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.

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

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

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.

Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!

County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell it and I'm not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I'll stop you when...Hello?

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life...procrastinating and rationalizing.