Quotes by Bill Watterson

Bill Watterson

American cartoonist

Lived from: 1958 -

Category: Artists

Born: 5 july 1958

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  • Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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  • There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
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  • A box of new crayons! Now they're all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they'll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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  • As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.
    The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Introduction
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  • Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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  • 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.
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  • Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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  • That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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  • 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!
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  • The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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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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  • 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.
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  • Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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  • Who was the first guy that look at a cow and said, I think that I'll drink whatever comes out of those things when I squeeze them?
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  • (Hobbes:) Do you think there's a God? (Calvin:) Well, somebody's out to get me.
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  • Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist -- how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
    Weirdos from Another Planet
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  • 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.
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  • If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
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  • If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
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  • If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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What are the most famous quotes from Bill Watterson?

The two most famous quotes from Bill Watterson are:

  • "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
  • "There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want."

When did Bill Watterson live?

Bill Watterson is still alive and was born in 1958.