Bill Watterson Quotes

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Quiet, Listening

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Dumb

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Food

• 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

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Humor, Inspirational

  Tags in Understand

• I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Unfair, Fairness

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Expectations, Humor

  Tags in Everyone

• Heck, what’s a little extortion among friends?

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Heck, Extortion

• 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

• 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

• Genius is never understood in its own time.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Genius

  Tags in Time

• From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Connect, Dots

• A real job is a job you hate.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hate

• Mothers are the necessity of invention.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Mom

• The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Intelligence

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

  Bill Watterson

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in 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

• I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

  Bill Watterson

  Tags in Winter

• 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

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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