Authors:

Hunter S. Thompson Quotes - Page 11

All Quotes Addiction Adventure Age Art Basketball Beer Character Children Choices Clinton Coffee Country Culture Death Democracy Drinking Earth Energy Epic Evil Falling In Love Fate Feelings Fighting Football Fun Funny Giving Golf Hate Heart Heaven Hell House Hunting Hurt Ignorance Insanity Inspirational Jesus Journalism Journey Life Literature Loneliness Losing Love Luck Military Morning Motorcycle Mountain Pain Paranoia Past Personality Perspective Police Politics Reality Risk Running Sanity School Sleep Soul Speed Sports Style Today Travel Truth Victory Voting Waiting War Winning Writing
Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sex, Awkward

Timothy Leary and I kept the same hours. He believed, as I do, that “After midnight, all things are possible.

Hunter S. Thompson
Midnight, Hours, All Things
Hunter S. Thompson, Jann Wenner (2011). “Fear and Loathing at Rolling Stone: The Essential Writing of Hunter S. Thompson”, p.468, Simon and Schuster

Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

Hunter S. Thompson
Stupid, Fear And Loathing, Hunters
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.5, A&C Black

In some circles, the Mint 400 is a far, far better thing than the Superbowl, the Kentucky Derby, and the lower Oakland roller derby finals all rolled into one. This race attracts a very special breed.

Hunter S. Thompson
Vegas, Race, Kentucky
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.36, Vintage

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

Hunter S. Thompson
Funny Life, Vegas, Hands

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.

Hunter S. Thompson
Vegas, Drug, Fear And Loathing
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas pt. 1 (1971)

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Hunter S. Thompson
Sports, Pain, Gambling

I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Reality, Drug
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

Hunter S. Thompson
Lanes, Folks, Fast Lane
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

All golfers fear the one-iron. It has no angle, no loft. The one-iron is a confidence-crusher, a fear trip, an almost guarantee of shame, failure, dumbness and humiliation if you ever use it in public.

Hunter S. Thompson
Golf, Iron, Guarantees

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

Hunter S. Thompson
Golf, Animal, Surround Sound
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

I've always considered writing the most hateful kind of work. I suspect it's a bit like fucking - which is fun only for amateurs. Old whores don't do much giggling.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fun, Writing, Hateful
"The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time" by Hunter S. Thompson, (p. 109), 1979.

A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.

Hunter S. Thompson
Epic, Men, Long
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.47, A&C Black

No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction -- toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Goats, Matter
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.140, A&C Black

When you push a car off a cliff and blow it up, be sure to roll the windows down to avoid shrapnel. Also, strip the license plate so you're not billed for the cleanup.

Hunter S. Thompson
Blow, Car, Cliffs
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.378, Pan Macmillan

Once I establish credit, I may be able to function. A man needs credit. Especially when he has no money.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Able, Needs
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967”, p.440, Ballantine Books

As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Fate, Dark
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National championship. ... Even now, so many years later, I still believe Kentucky will go undefeated in March & win everything.

Hunter S. Thompson
Inspirational, Basketball, Believe

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines with gimp mentalities.

Hunter S. Thompson
Dull, Thieves, Pretentious
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.72, A&C Black

In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years.

Hunter S. Thompson
Angel, College, Years

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.

Hunter S. Thompson
Writing, Artist, Reality
"Depp to star in ‘Rum Diary’". Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. November 12, 2003.

My life has been the polar opposite of safe, but I am proud of it and so is my son, and that is good enough for me. I would do it all over again without changing the beat, although I have never recommended it to others. That would be cruel and irresponsible and wrong, I think, and I am none of those things.

Hunter S. Thompson
Son, Thinking, Opposites
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the F”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.

Hunter S. Thompson
Crazy, Moving, Men
Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.201, Vintage

The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate. The only thing that keeps them in line is their fear of death, jail and lawsuits.

Hunter S. Thompson
Fate, Men, Jail
Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga: A Strange and Terrible Saga”, p.68, Ballantine Books

The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.

Hunter S. Thompson
Men, Vegas, Fear And Loathing
Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

You May Also Like: