Bill Watterson Quotes

Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of days when you should just give in, put your pajamas back on, make some hot chocolate and read comic books in bed with the covers up until the world looks more encouraging. Of course, they never let you do that.

~ Bill Watterson

Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

~ Bill Watterson

You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don't help.

~ Bill Watterson

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

~ Bill Watterson

Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

~ Bill Watterson

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.

~ Bill Watterson

Genius is never understood in its own time.

~ Bill Watterson

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

~ Bill Watterson

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

~ Bill Watterson

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

~ Bill Watterson

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

~ Bill Watterson

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

~ Bill Watterson

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

~ Bill Watterson

Mothers are the necessity of invention.

~ Bill Watterson

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

~ Bill Watterson