Bill Watterson Quotes

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Bill Watterson

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• You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.

  

  Kate Millett
  • You
  • More
  • Housework

• I wanted to be a director and producer and writer, but in the early '40's the union wouldn't let you get through the gates. You couldn't get on a crew, or even learn to direct.

  

  Larry Buchanan
  • Learn
  • Director
  • Early

• It is pure mythology that women cannot perform as well as men in science, engineering and mathematics. In my experience, the opposite is true: Women are often more adept and patient at untangling complex problems, multitasking, seeing the possibilities in new solutions and winning team support for collaborative action.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Lord
  • Created
  • Sins

• I wanted to be ballerina, be in a band, then in drama.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Band
  • Drama
  • Then

• Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Good
  • You
  • Realize

• I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Myself
  • Person
  • Date

• I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Want
  • King
  • Alive

• It's like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • People
  • Different
  • Beautiful

• Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Morning
  • Marriage

• I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Culture
  • First
  • Deal

• When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

  

  Camille Pissarro
  • Soul
  • Always
  • Find

• Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • People

• My work is atheistic, materialistic and communistic. It's atheistic because it's without transcendent form, without spiritual or intellectual quality. Materialistic because it's made out of it's own materials without pretension to other materials. And communistic because the form is equally accessible to all men.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Work
  • Men
  • Quality

• I'm not gonna lie, I love the holidays. But Christmas was a lot more fun when you weren't paying for it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Fun
  • Christmas

• The natural philosopher Heraclitus said that man is naturally irrational. If this is true, as it is true, then everyone who enjoys futile glory should hide his face.

  

  Apollonius of Tyana
  • True

• My studio works in cycles. I am consistent with all of the practices, but I give attention to one part for a certain amount of time. I say, "Okay, I'm making performances," and sometimes that means I can't be making photographic works. As I'm maturing as an artist, years have passed and I feel that I'm becoming a better craftsperson in multiple fields, but that takes time. Also, because I trained as an actor, I hold this thing about how an actor prepares and therefore I try to prepare for all of my tasks.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Studio
  • Performances
  • Photographic Works

• I like people who tell stories. I like storytellers. A lot of my songs are misconceived as being auto-biographical when they're not because I write in the first person.

  

  Art Alexakis
  • People
  • Auto

• I started chanting when I was living on Hollywood Boulevard, working as a stripper. Within six months, I got my first million dollars and I didn’t have to strip for bucks any more. Then I met Kurt and we still chanted, but we did a lot of drugs together.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Together

• Judd Apatow is pretty good, both as a producer and as a director.

  

  Mel Brooks
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

  

  Bill Watterson