Bill Watterson Quotes

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

Bill Watterson

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• I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Same

• If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• I know every politician spins the truth a little.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Politician

• I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Book
  • Movie

• As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Want
  • Technology
  • Medical

• Don't ever try and be like anybody else and don't be afraid to take risks.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Chance
  • Try
  • Risks

• I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Guy
  • Earth
  • Cool

• We filmed 'Expelled' in Santa Clarita at an all-girl's school. There were twelve hour days.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • School
  • Girl
  • Days

• Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • May
  • Successful
  • Prove

• Lil B opened up the floodgates for Odd Future, and now rap has a huge Internet culture.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Up
  • Future
  • Culture

• For better or worse, we have evolved for sure, but we've also maintained a certain core about who we are, which is we were raised on late '50s and early '60s rock n' roll and R&B, and you can always hear that throughout. And that's just always been who we were. As much as we've evolved, that's stayed the same.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Rock
  • Better
  • Same

• I pray that this council, which will probably be too late to save Iraq, will do what it can, which will be immeasurably strong in what it does in trying to save our democracy.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Trying
  • Strong
  • Democracy

• Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • World
  • Painting
  • Decisions

• I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

  

  Kanye West
  • Know
  • Better
  • Paid

• I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Career
  • Star
  • Idea

• Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • You
  • Swing

• You find him disgusting with his thick mouth and ugly body and wet appealing eyes. You think he's disgusting and you're afraid.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Eyes
  • Ugly

• The world is ever new to me; like an old friend loved through this and former lives, the acquaintance between us is both long and deep.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • World
  • Long
  • Friend

• For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters.

  

  Meg Cabot
  • Up
  • Book

• Clearly it is better that, when someone is wanted by the international police, and this person travels, and a country knows about it, that country reports the fact.

  

  Ricardo Lagos
  • Country
  • Persons
  • Police

• I can't predict the future of football. I don't think it'll go the way of boxing because it's a team sport. It's built into our education systems, the flagship for a lot of universities' fundraising campaigns. So no, I don't think it'll go away.

  

  Chris Borland
  • Future
  • Education
  • Team

• I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Thinking
  • Songs
  • Meanings

• I'm a sucker for entertainment and escapism as much as the next person. I like silly and lowbrow stuff, but I get nervous when I indulge in that too often. I want to know what's going on in the world. I have a morbid fear of being surprised by bad news. I want to anticipate everything.

  

  Martin Donovan
  • World
  • Bad
  • Fear

• When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

  

  Bill Watterson