Quotes by Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

American cartoonist

Alive from: 1958-

Category: Comedians and humor | Artists

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  A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

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  As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
  Source: The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Introduction

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

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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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  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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  Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

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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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  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.

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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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  There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

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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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  Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

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  Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?

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  (Hobbes:) Do you think there's a God? (Calvin:) Well, somebody's out to get me.