You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Hobbes: Do you think there's a God? Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me! — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D's in school.… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Books are almost always better than the movies made from them, because there are things books do well and things movies do… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that's the problem. I don't know how to spell… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Is it truly being good if the only reason I behave well is so I can get more loot at Christmas? I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
S...For Stupendous! T...For Tiger, ferocity of! U...For Underwear, Red! P...For Power, Incredible! E...For excellent physique! N...For...Um...Something..Hm, well, I'll come back to that...… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Well, coming at a new work requires a certain amount of patience and energy, and there’s always the risk of disappointment. You… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Mom’s not feeling well. So I’m making her a get well card.” “That’s thoughtful of you.” "See, on the front it says,… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I'm pulling out different aspects of my personality in writing each character and, if I'm doing my job well, I'm being true… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Paul Gauguin asked, "whence do we come? What are we? Where are we going?" Well, I don't know about anyone else, but… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
For your information, I'm staying like this, and everyone else can just get used to it! If people don't like me the way I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I think most of us would be horrified to meet ourselves and discover what everyone else already knows about us. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Calvin: Today for show and tell, I've brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
United Features had given me a development contract, which meant I was to work exclusively with them and rather than completing everything on my… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
I tell you all this because it's worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success. You will do well to… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
