The American dream is a crock. Stop wanting everything. Everyone should wear jeans and have three T-shirts, eat rice and beans.
BILL HICKSI don’t do drugs anymore… than, say, the average touring funk band.
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Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?…No, it’s not…That’s called logic and it’ll help us all evolve.
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[Comedy] is an escape from illusions. The audience is…thinking, ‘This bullshit we see and hear all day makes no sense.’
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It is hard to quit smoking. Every one of them looks real good to me right about now. Every cigarette looks like it was made by God, rolled by Jesus and moistened shut with Claudia Schiffer’s pussy.
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Man, the Beatles were so high, they let Ringo sing a coupla tunes. Tell me they weren’t partyin’.
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The Voice of Reason is in us all…and everyone can recognize it because it makes sense and everyone benefits from it equally.
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I’ve had good times on drugs…bad times on drugs…But I’ve had good and bad relationships…and I’m not giving up pussy.
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The best kind of comedy to me is when you make people laugh at things they’ve never laughed at, and also take a light into the darkened corners of people’s minds, exposing them to the light.
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Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.
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I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.
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Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves…After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.
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I don’t care if you’re obscene, filthy, horrendous — as long as you’re honest.
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STRATFORD SUCKS!’ Am I supposed to run after these guys? I’d just stand there, you know. They’d back up. ‘STRATFORD SUCKS! …STRATFORD SUCKS!’ I’d say, ‘I know. I go there. You’re wasting gas, man.
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I wouldn’t give Satan a snowball’s chance in Hell against a woman’s ego.
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All your beliefs, they’re just that. They’re nothing. They’re how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make ’em real.
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I’m totally confused about what I’m going to do with my life.
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I don’t get along with anything, I really don’t…I’m, I’m, maybe I’m just a, you know, incredibly tasteful human being.
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The role of the comedian is to say ‘Wait a minute’ when a consensus starts to form.
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It’s always funny until someone gets hurt. Then it’s just hilarious.
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I’m just skin covering coffee and some real nervous teeth.
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But where did this veneration of childbirth come from? I missed that meeting. Childbirth is wonderful, childbirth is a miracle. Wrong. It’s no more a miracle than eating food and a turd coming out your ass.
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Do I have a message? Yes, I do. Here’s my message: as scary as the world is – and it is – it is merely a ride …
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Mister, I don’t want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don’t even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain’t looking for no trouble, Mister.
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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.
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Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.
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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.
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Marijuana: a drug that kills … no one – and let’s put it in a time frame – ever. Illegal.
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