Bill Watterson Quotes

I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

Bill Watterson

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• I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing musicals, films and plays - projects where I'm not in charge, where I've got somebody else telling me what to do and I have to work with their vision.

  

  Wayne McGregor
  • People
  • Work
  • Space

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Great
  • You
  • Explore

• I wanted to play incredibly challenging, multifaceted characters. Because we are all a puzzle.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Play
  • Because
  • Puzzle

• We shot 'High School Musical' in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for 'Hairspray' than filming 'High School Musical'.

  

  Zac Efron
  • School
  • High
  • High School

• Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Good
  • Lies
  • Seeing

• Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • True
  • Man
  • Religious

• People are so afraid to talk about real things, but they're experiences that everyone goes through.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Real
  • Everyone

• Parents like options when it comes to their children's education. And they respond to quality.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Education

• Past middle age, some friends suggested that I should have my eyebags removed, the deepening creases on my face stretched. I often examined my face in the mirror, imagining how I'd look if I followed the suggestion. I decided to retain the old mug. I was too familiar and comfortable with it. And the final hindrance: the cost.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Friends
  • Age
  • Past

• When you are culture, you're forever young, like Snoop. When you're on that level, it's just contributing to the gangsta.

  

  D.R.A.M.
  • Culture
  • You
  • Forever

• A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I made career decisions that came from the part of me who wanted to shun the limelight.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Career
  • Me
  • Decisions

• I've never considered myself to be beautiful, and I still don't.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Beautiful
  • Myself
  • Never

• We didn’t know if it was humanly possible to reach the top of Mt. Everest. And even using oxygen as we were, if we did get to the top, we weren’t at all sure whether we wouldn’t drop dead or something of that nature.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Nature

• The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Experience

• You can imagine my dismay when I got to Cambridge and found that I had done everything wrong. I shouldn't have named the chimps; I should have given them numbers. I couldn't talk about their personalities, their minds or their feelings because that was unique to us.

  

  Jane Goodall
  • Done
  • Unique

• Catchphrase: Oh, grow up!

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Up

• In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have been accepted by the people; for there are many good laws, the importance of which is known to be the sagacious lawgiver, but the reasons for which are not sufficiently evident to enable him to persuade others to submit to them; and therefore do wise men, for the purpose of removing this difficulty, resort to divine authority.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • People
  • Truth
  • Never

• Everyone wants to win, but I think winners believe they deserve to win. They've made the commitment, they've followed the right path, and they've taken the right steps to be successful.

  

  Amy Ruley
  • Win
  • Successful
  • Deserve

• As late as 2007, Facebook was still trying to figure out what it wanted to be when it grew up. An advertising space seemed to be the obvious answer, but how that would tap into the massive value of the personal data uploaded to the company every day remained a puzzle.

  

  Kurt Eichenwald
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Space

• Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead.

  

  Will Carleton
  • Country
  • Army
  • Nation

• I liked things better when I didn't understand them.

  

  Bill Watterson