Bill Hicks on doors
Bill Hicks177 quotes“Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.”
More from Bill Hicks
The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
Bill HicksBill Hicks This Bud’s for yooouuuu.” C’mon, everybody, let’s be hypocritical bastards. It’s okay to drink your drug. We meant those other drugs. Those untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that are bad for you.
Bill HicksBill Hicks When you’re…stepping over a guy on the sidewalk…does it ever occur to you to think, ‘Wow. Maybe our system doesn’t work?’
Bill HicksBill Hicks Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know one child with a full time job and children.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you’ve chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You’re dead too.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Why is pot against the law? It wouldn’t be because anyone can grow it, and therefore you can’t make a profit off it, would it?
Bill HicksBill Hicks While I’ve found many of the religious shows I’ve viewed over the years not to be to my liking, or in line with my own beliefs, I’ve never considered it my place to exert any greater type of censorship than changing the channel, or better yet – turning off the TV completely.
Bill HicksBill Hicks How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? …Seventy percent. What the fuck? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?
Bill HicksBill Hicks I figure, if he could overcome being nailed to a cross, I don’t think a Marlboro Light’s gonna faze him that much.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I go to dance clubs…about once a year just to justify the other 364 days I spend in my apartment going ‘God, what idiots!’
Bill HicksBill Hicks As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.
Bill HicksBill Hicks Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves…After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I find it ironic that people who are against things that cause sexual thoughts are generally fundamentalist Christians who also believe you should be fruitful and multiply.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin’ [puts mic to his neck and speaks as if he had a mechanical larynx] ‘good evening everybody, remember me, smoking’s bad. [puts cigarette to neck and mimics smoking it] Eeww.
Bill HicksBill Hicks I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, ‘What’s wrong?’ Nothing. ‘Well, it takes more energy to frown than it does to smile.’ Yeah, you know it takes more energy to point that out than it does to leave me alone?
Bill HicksBill Hicks
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More on doors
Hospitality, or flinging wide the door to friends and wayfarers alike, was once important, back in a world without motels or safety nets, where a friend might find his castle burnt down or a wayfarer find bandits on his trail.
Barbara HollandBarbara Holland There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay in store. The figure that stood in the door was not that of an enemy. It was worse. It was his mother.
Barbara MertzBarbara Mertz It’s an exciting life. I don’t know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.
Barbara MandrellBarbara Mandrell I’m the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.
Jenny McCarthyJenny McCarthy To Truth’s house there is a single door, which is experience.
Bayard TaylorBayard Taylor I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
Baal Shem TovBaal Shem Tov Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara TuchmanBarbara Tuchman Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
Barbara Brown TaylorBarbara Brown Taylor
