There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
- Bill Watterson
Enough, Want, Nothing, Enough Time
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.
- Bill Watterson
Myself, Another, Had, Grieving
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
- Bill Watterson
Bad, Mood, Bad Mood, Helps
I won't eat any cereal that doesn't turn the milk purple.
- Bill Watterson
Food, Milk, Eat, Cereal
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
- Bill Watterson
Mom, Necessity, Mothers, Invention
We don't devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
- Bill Watterson
Scientific, Devote, Jerks
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
- Bill Watterson
Ignorance, Waste Time, Waste, Instantaneous
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!
- Bill Watterson
Purpose, Practice, Reasoning, Inhibit
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.
- Bill Watterson
Doll, Issue, Settled, Manufacturer
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
- Bill Watterson
Talking, Sort, Equivalent, Conversational
That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
- Bill Watterson
Problem, Got, Whole, Unimaginable
Reality continues to ruin my life.
- Bill Watterson
Funny, Reality, My Life, Ruin
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.
- Bill Watterson
Thoughts, Think, Sometimes, I Wonder
Genius is never understood in its own time.
- Bill Watterson
Brainy, Genius, Never, Understood
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
- Bill Watterson
My Life, Thought, Musical, Laugh
If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
- Bill Watterson
Gardening, Green, Knees, Ought
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
- Bill Watterson
Mind, Process, Running, Shutting
It's always better to leave the party early.
- Bill Watterson
Better, Leave, Always, Party
I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.
- Bill Watterson
Dreams, Play, Think, Apart
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
- Bill Watterson
Dumb, Useless, Thoroughly, Command
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.
- Bill Watterson
Mind, Play, Best Way, Problems
It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.
- Bill Watterson
Reality, Denial, About, Selective
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
- Bill Watterson
Future, Problem, Turning, The Problem With
If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.
- Bill Watterson
Control, Expect, Butter, Peanut
Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
- Bill Watterson
Wake Up, Some, Made, Present
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.
- Bill Watterson
My Life, Life Is A, Lot, Easier
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson
Cool, Grow, Like, No Idea
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson
Intelligence, Never, Tried, Exists
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
- Bill Watterson
Think, Intelligent Life, Exists
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.
- Bill Watterson
Weird, Nothing, Pretty, Seems
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
- Bill Watterson
Winning, Like, Getting, Cents
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.
- Bill Watterson
Die, Behind, Will, Certain
It's surprising how hard we'll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
- Bill Watterson
Work, How, Hard, Surprising
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.
- Bill Watterson
Nature, Looked, Sat, Each Night
From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.
- Bill Watterson
Now, Dots, My Own, Connect
I know the world isn't fair, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
- Bill Watterson
World, Favor, Ever, Unfair
Heck, what's a little extortion among friends?
- Bill Watterson
Friends, Little, Among, Heck
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
- Bill Watterson
Real, Like, Recommend, The Real World
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson
Friendship, Never, Things, Quite
Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
- Bill Watterson
Doing, Pointless, Weekends, Count
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.
- Bill Watterson
Discover, Will, Needs, Different
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
- Bill Watterson
Listening, Start, Quiet, Doubts
A real job is a job you hate.
- Bill Watterson
Job, Real, Real Job, Hate
I liked things better when I didn't understand them.
- Bill Watterson
Better, Understand, Things, Liked
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