Bill Watterson Quotes - Page 8

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• As "Calvin and Hobbes" went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity. One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what's going on in Calvin's head.

  Bill Watterson

  Writing, Reality, Drawing

  Source: www.annistonstar.com

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• The only permanent rule in Calvinball is that you can never play it the same way twice! (Calvin)

  Bill Watterson

  Play, Way, Permanent

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

  Bill Watterson

  Funny Life, Expectations, Life Is

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• Your fingernails are a joke, you've got no fangs, you can't see at night, your pink hides are ridiculous, your reflexes are nil, and you don't even have tails! Of course people aren't content! ... Now if tigers weren't content, that would be something to wonder about.

  Bill Watterson

  Night, People, Would Be

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• It's always better to leave the party early.

  Bill Watterson

  Party, Relatable

  "Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regrets". Interview with John Campanelli, www.cleveland.com. February 1, 2010.

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• [Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I've got a great word and it's on a "Double word score" box! Hobbes: "ZQFMGB" isn't a word! It doesn't even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It's a worm found in New Guinea! Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I'm looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I'll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What's your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.

  Bill Watterson

  Looks, Scrabble, Vowels

  "Scientific Progress Goes 'Boink'". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1991.

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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.

  Bill Watterson

  Moving, Cartoon, Done

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• The more words you have at your disposal, the more precisely you can express yourself.

  Bill Watterson

  Express Yourself

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Expression, Perception

  Bill Watterson (1996). “The Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”

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• What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Fun, Sombreros

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• Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart - almost as good and a lot cheaper!

  Bill Watterson

  Baby, Dad, Light

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• If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer. Now if a joke is in bad taste or it's not funny, okay, that's awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer's job is, and I don't think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.

  Bill Watterson

  Jobs, Thinking, Artist

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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• Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond'rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces... Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug's juices!

  Bill Watterson

  Design, Grace, Spiders

  "Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1994.

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• I'd like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

  Bill Watterson

  Paper, Standards, Higher

  Source: bob.bigw.org

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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.

  Bill Watterson

  Growing Up, Yesterday, Dumb

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• When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.

  Bill Watterson

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  Bill Watterson (1995). “The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book”, p.11, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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

  Bill Watterson

  Cereal, Purple, Milk

  "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1990.

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• I'm a misunderstood genius." "What's misunderstood?" "Nobody thinks I'm a genius.

  Bill Watterson

  Thinking, Misunderstood, Genius

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• I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

  Bill Watterson

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Hands, Comic Book

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• I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.

  Bill Watterson

  Dark, Thinking, Imagine

  "The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1992.

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• Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it's just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

  Bill Watterson

  Running, Real, Stupid

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• Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.

  Bill Watterson

  Real, Zombie, Looks

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• Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.

  Bill Watterson

  Loopholes

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• CALVIN: As usual goodness hardly puts up a fight.

  Bill Watterson

  Fighting, Usual, Goodness

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