Bill Watterson Quotes

• Reality continues to ruin my life.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor, Life

  Tags in Calvin, Hobbes

• A real job is a job you hate.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

• Everyone says how Calvin and Hobbes is about a real kid, to me there’s nothing real about it; it’s an adult using a kid’s body as a mouthpiece.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real

• I hate Calvin and Hobbes. I think its a big re-hash of formula kid strips.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate
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  Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Change, Weird

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Insufficiency, Calvin, Hobbes, Lottery, Snow, Cent

• When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Calvin, Hobbes, Taste, Bird

• If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Butter, Control

• 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.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Other, Each, Think, Play, Apart, Together, Long

• It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Calvin, Hobbes, Reality

• Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learning, Time, Ignorance

• I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Food

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Problems

• The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Future

  Tags in Problem

• I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Interesting, Score, Track

• Genius is never understood in its own time.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Time

• You know, Hobbes, some days even my rocketship underpants dont help.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in School

• We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny, Humor

  Tags in Research, Comedian, Jerks, School

• I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Dreams

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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