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Bill Watterson [1958-0] American
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Cartoonist


William Boyd "Bill" Watterson II is an American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. 

Best, Time, Brainy, Car, Change, Cool, Dreams, Food, Friendship, Funny, Future, Gardening, Intelligence, Learning, Life, Mom, Nature



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Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend. Best, Friendship
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Reality continues to ruin my life. Funny, Life
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently. Nature
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. Future
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Genius is never understood in its own time. Brainy, Time
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Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do. Time
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. Best
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It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
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If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
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Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different. Change
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. Car
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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.
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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.
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Mothers are the necessity of invention. Mom
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If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life. Gardening
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool. Cool
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I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night. Dreams
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From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
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Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous? Learning
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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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!
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The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Intelligence
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I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
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We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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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.
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Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.
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I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple. Food
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I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
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I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now 'grieving' for 'Calvin and Hobbes' would be wishing me dead.
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When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
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It's always better to leave the party early.
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Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
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A real job is a job you hate.
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