On some days you get what you want, and on others, you get what you need.
HUNTER S. THOMPSONIt’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
More Hunter S. Thompson Quotes
-
-
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I’m doing or why you’re paying me so much money. What’s important is that you continue to do so.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
These things happen. One day you run everything, and the next day you run like a dog.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Never fire a warning shot. It is a waste of ammunition.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
You won’t find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone’s imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Anything worth doing is worth doing well.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Don’t judge your taco by its price.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and worshipped and fondled like a priceless diamond.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
It was like falling down an elevator shaft and landing in a pool full of mermaids.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
It’s in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON -
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON