Bill Watterson quotes - page 7

Bill Watterson is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes." His work is celebrated for its wit, philosophical depth, and artistic innovation. He has influenced generations of artists and continues to inspire readers around the world. Here are 184 of his quotes:

Now what state do you live in?' 'Denial.

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Well, remember what you said, because in a day or two, I'll have a witty and blistering retort! You'll be devastated THEN.

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

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CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.

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I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification. -Calvin.

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Calvin: Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess. p35.

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CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

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It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!

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I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.

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I wonder where we go when we die?” "...Pittsburgh?” "You mean if we're good or if we're bad?

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Calvin's Dad: It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV. p100.

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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

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So long, Pop! I'm off to check my tiger trap!

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Calvin: It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning. p62.

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Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?

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A real job is a job you hate.

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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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It's always better to leave the party early. If I had rolled along with the strip's popularity and repeated myself for another five, 10 or 20 years, the people now "grieving" for "Calvin and Hobbes" would be wishing me dead and cursing newspapers for running tedious, ancient strips like mine instead of acquiring fresher, livelier talent. And I'd be agreeing with them.

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

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Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.

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Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.

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Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.

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