Hunter S. Thompson Quotes And Sayings

Luck Is A Very Thin Wire Between Survival And Disaster, And Not Many People Can Keep Their Balance On It.

The Next Mvp Of The Super Bowl Is Just As Likely To Have Been A Full-time Grocery Store Bagger Last Year As A Heisman Trophy Winner.

Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride.

The Person Who Doesn't Scatter The Morning Dew Will Not Comb Gray Hairs.

A Word To The Wise Is Infuriating.

There Is Nothing More Helpless And Irresponsible Than A Man In The Depths Of An Ether Binge.

That Was Always The Difference Between Muhammad Ali And The Rest Of Us. He Came, He Saw, And If He Didn't Entirely Conquer - He Came As Close As Anybody We Are Likely To See In The Lifetime Of This Doomed Generation.

Politics Is The Art Of Controlling Your Environment.

The Tv Business Is Uglier Than Most Things. It Is Normally Perceived As Some Kind Of Cruel And Shallow Money Trench Through The Heart Of The Journalism Industry, A Long Plastic Hallway Where Thieves And Pimps Run Free And Good Men Die Like Dogs, For No Good Reason.

The Trouble With Nixon Is That He's A Serious Politics Junkie. He's Totally Hooked And Like Any Other Junkie, He's A Bummer To Have Around, Especially As President.

I Just Usually Go With My Own Taste. If I Like Something, And It Happens To Be Against The Law, Well, Then I Might Have A Problem.

Truth Is Weirder Than Any Fiction I've Seen.

The Writer Must Be A Participant In The Scene... Like A Film Director Who Writes His Own Scripts, Does His Own Camera Work, And Somehow Manages To Film Himself In Action, As The Protagonist Or At Least The Main Character.

There Is No Such Thing As Paranoia. Your Worst Fears Can Come True At Any Moment.

I Am Surprised And Embarrassed To Be A Part Of The First American Generation To Leave The Country In Far Worse Shape Than It Was When We First Came Into It.

I Learned A Long Time Ago That Reality Was Much Weirder Than Anyone's Imagination.

One Of The Most Basic Factors In Sports Is That Winning Becomes A Habit, And Losing Is The Same Way. When Failure Starts To Feel Normal In Your Life Or Your Work Or Even Your Darkest Vices, You Won't Have To Go Looking For Trouble, Because Trouble Will Find You. Count On It.

The Hell's Angels Try Not To Do Anything Halfway, And Anyone Who Deals In Extremes Is Bound To Cause Trouble, Whether He Means To Or Not. This, Along With A Belief In Total Retaliation For Any Offense Or Insult, Is What Makes The Hell's Angels Unmanageable For The Police And Morbidly Fascinating To The General Public.

February Is Always A Bad Month For Tv Sports. Football Is Gone, Basketball Is Plodding Along In The Annual Midseason Doldrums, And Baseball Is Not Even Mentioned.

Nixon Was A Crook, Of Course, But He Was Also A Rabid Football Fan - And He Knew The Game, Which Still Astounds Me, But I Have Always Had A Soft Spot For Him Because Of It.

Marathon Running, Like Golf, Is A Game For Players, Not Winners. That Is Why Callaway Sells Golf Clubs And Nike Sells Running Shoes. But Running Is Unique In That The World's Best Racers Are On The Same Course, At The Same Time, As Amateurs, Who Have As Much Chance Of Winning As Your Average Weekend Warrior Would Scoring A Touchdown In The Nfl.

I Am Not A Yachting Person, By Nature, But I Have Just Enough Experience On The Sea Under Sail To Feel A Certain Nostalgia For It When I See A Big White Racing Yacht Heeled Over At Cruising Speed On The Ocean, And I Can Still Tie A Mean Bowline Knot On Just About Anything In Less Than 10 Seconds.

I Hate Pain, Despite My Ability To Tolerate It Beyond All Known Parameters, Which Is Not Necessarily A Good Thing.

Remember This, Folks - I Am A Hillbilly, And I Don't Always Bet The Same Way I Talk. Good Advice Is One Thing, But Smart Gambling Is Quite Another.

The Best Thing About The Kentucky Derby Is That It Is Only Two Minutes Long. It Is The Quickest Event In Sports, Except For Sumo-wrestling &Amp; Mike Tyson Fights. Maybe Drag-racing Is Quicker, But I Have Never Been Attracted To It.

Richard Nixon Was A Criminally Insane Monster - Bill Clinton Is A Black-hearted Swine Of A Friend.

I Have Never Believed Much In Luck, And My Sense Of Humor Has Tended To Walk On The Dark Side.

March Is A Month Without Mercy For Rabid Basketball Fans. There Is No Such Thing As A 'Gentleman Gambler' When The Big Dance Rolls Around. All Sheep Will Be Fleeced, All Fools Will Be Punished Severely... There Are No Rules When The Deal Goes Down In The Final Weeks Of March. Even Your Good Friends Will Turn Into Monsters.

It Was The Law Of The Sea, They Said. Civilization Ends At The Waterline. Beyond That, We All Enter The Food Chain, And Not Always Right At The Top.

If You're Going To Be Crazy, You Have To Get Paid For It Or Else You're Going To Be Locked Up.

I Wasn't Trying To Be An Outlaw Writer. I Never Heard Of That Term; Somebody Else Made It Up. But We Were All Outside The Law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey; I Didn't Have A Gauge As To Who Was The Worst Outlaw. I Just Recognized Allies: My People.

I Think I'm One Of The Most Patriotic People That I've Ever Encountered In America. I Consider Myself A Bedrock Patriot. I Participate Very Actively In Local Politics, Because My Voice Might Be Worthwhile. I Participate In A Meaningful Way - Not By Donations; I Work At It.

I Am An Addictive Personality, They Say, A Natural Slave To Passion - And Many Doctors Have Warned Me Against It. I Am A High-risk Patient.

There Is Always Room For Losers In The Football Business. They Are The Mother's Milk Of Gambling, And Why Not? Somebody Has To Do It, Or There Won't Be Any Winners.

I Have A Theory That The Truth Is Never Told During The Nine-to-five Hours.

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.

Rude People Will Now &Amp; Then Ask Me Why I Think I Know So Much About Politics. I Tell Them It's Because I'm Smart... But That Is A Lie: The Real Reason Is Because I'm An Incurable Gambling Addict.

All Gamblers Lose Regularly, But They Rarely Discuss It In Public. Losing Is Bad For The Image, Dude. Nobody Buys Hot Tips From Losers. Remember That.

You Better Take Care Of Me Lord, If You Don't You're Gonna Have Me On Your Hands.

By Any Accepted Standard, I Have Had More Than Nine Lives. I Counted Them Up Once, And There Were 13 Times I Almost And Maybe Should Have Died.

Not Everybody Is Comfortable With The Idea That Politics Is A Guilty Addiction. But It Is.

In My Heart, I Am Always A Raider.

I Am More Than Just A Serious Basketball Fan. I Am A Life-long Addict. I Was Addicted From Birth, In Fact, Because I Was Born In Kentucky And I Learned, Early On, That Habitual Domination Was A Natural Way Of Life.

Democracy As A System Has Evolved Into Something That Thomas Jefferson Didn't Anticipate.

I Have Warned Many Times About The Guaranteed Dangers Of Betting With Your Heart Instead Of Your Head - Big Darkness, Soon Come - But Every Once In A While You Get A Fair Chance To Have It Both Ways, And The Annual Ncaa Basketball Tournament Is One Of Them.

The Only Thing Wrong With The Nba - Or Any Other Professional Sport, For That Matter - Is A Wild Epidemic Of Dumbness And Overweening Greed. There Is No Mystery About It, And No Need To Change Any Rules.

When The Going Gets Weird, The Weird Turn Pro.

Fiction Is Based On Reality Unless You're A Fairytale Artist.

Nixon Represents That Dark, Venal And Incurably Violent Side Of The American Character Almost Every Other Country In The World Has Learned To Fear And Despise.

Duke Is An Ugly Word In Kentucky. Nothing In The World Compares To The Joy Of Beating Those Hateful Swine From Duke.