Bill Watterson Quotes - Page 7

There's more to this world than just people, you know.

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

Careful. We don't want to learn from this.

Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess.

You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school. Well guess what, I get F's!!!

Few things are less comforting than a tiger who's up too late.

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!

At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you'll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.

I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few.

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

MOMMMM, I'm thirsty... What's this, just water?

I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us.

Once it's too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

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

Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.

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?

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.

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