Bill Watterson Quotes
"Reality continues to ruin my life."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Reality, Ruin)
"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."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Calamity, Mistakes, Present)
"Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Car, Thought, Mind, Running)
"Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Nothing)
"So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Food, World)
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Universe)
"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
(Related: Thoughts, Talking, Wonder, Words)
"Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Experience, Body, Talking)
"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Science, Trying, Wonder)
"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!"
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Ideas, Purpose, Clarity, Practice, Writing)
"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Universe)
"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."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Logic, Reality, Want, World)
"There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Time, Nothing, Want)
"Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Friend)
"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Time, Ignorance, Learning, Waste)
"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."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Needs, Want, Will)
"We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Cure, Research)
"When birds burp, it must taste like bugs."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Birds, Bugs, Taste)
"Mothers are the necessity of invention."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Invention, Mothers, Necessity)
"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Winning, Snow)
"Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless."
- Bill Watterson
"From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Now)
"Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?"
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Friends)
"A real job is a job you hate."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Hate, Job)
"Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Mind, Play, Problems)
"Genius is never understood in its own time."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Time, Genius)
"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
(Related: God, Earth, Now, Right, Will)
"I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Expectations)
"I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?"
- Bill Watterson
(Related: World)
"I liked things better when I didn't understand them."
- Bill Watterson
"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
(Related: Dreams, Night, Play)
"I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Thought)
"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Change, Day, Nothing, Pretty)
"I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Dumb, Information)
"I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Listening, Nagging, Quiet)
"If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: People, Night, Stars)
"If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Control)
"If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Life, Day, End)
"It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: People, Idea)
"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Denial, Reality)
"It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves."
- Bill Watterson
(Related: Work)
"I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple."
- Bill Watterson