Bill Watterson Quotes

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  We’re so busy watching out for what’s just ahead of us that we don’t take time to enjoy where we are.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Time, Busy, Watch

• That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonder, Empiricists, School, Science

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness

• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accomplice, Potential

• To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life, Wisdom

• But for my own example, I’d never believe one little kid could have so much brains!

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Believe

• I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor, Inspirational

  Tags in Understand

• But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in God

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Happiness

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Experience

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Job

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

• I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Quiet, Listening

• When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life

• I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Dumb

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Expectations, Humor

  Tags in Everyone

• The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning and inhibit clarity.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing

• As far as I’m concerned, if something is so complicated that you can’t explain it in 10 seconds, then it’s probably not worth knowing anyway.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

• I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Happiness

• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny, Humor

  Tags in Comedian, Faster, Calvin, Hobbes

Bill Watterson (59)

Birth:	5th July, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cartoonist

About

Bill Watterson II is an American artist and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing Calvin and Hobbes at the end of 1995 with a short statement to newspaper editors and his readers that he felt he had achieved all he could in the medium. Watterson is known for his views on licensing and comic syndication and his move back into private life after drawing Calvin and Hobbes came to a close.

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