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.


Hunter S. Thompson

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

February was always the cruellest month for Hunter S Thompson,
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
February was always the cruelest month for Hunter S. Thompson. An avid NFL fan, Hunter traditionally...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec...
GEORGE P. ELLIOTT
To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN
His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING
FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
About every six to eight months, I run into a man who astounds me sexually, but between escapades, I...
SUE GRAFTON
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.
You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS
Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY
Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI
It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS...
If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN
For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA
The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI
Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE
To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS...
What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT
We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS...
Money is not everything.
BEN OAK
When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS...
To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS...
I'm not an Emontional, but how???
I live with the thought that "Nothing can be returned, it has...
DEYTH BANGER
Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle;
Love is the work of wrestlers.
The one w...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS
Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY
Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN
if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY
Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN
Bad debt is debt that is used to enhance consumption.
GARY SCHATSKY
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS
It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
NOLAN RYAN
The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA
Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL
The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
JONATHAN HEATT
Life is a game and true love is a trophy.
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about ba...
PATRICK SOON-SHIONG
I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a differen...
CAM GIGANDET
Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA
God is not pleased with these mashed potato Christians. You know the kind that are found in the T.V....
LAMAR THOMPSON
Truth is always a delusion.
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC
Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT
This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL
Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF
Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM
I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER
Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER
The dawn is killing me off, the fog is on the windows, the [ra]coons have robbed the cans, and down ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for peopl...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Your latest news is just news being repeated over and over again. It's old news already.
ANDONI GARCIA
Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA
This is kind a new (football) rivalry but you already see it in basketball and baseball.
CHRIS CONNOLLY
When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. A...
LAURIE ANDERSON
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON
If time is money and perhaps rightly said so, then with that count a person who does nothing for his...
ANUJ SOMANY
Be always excited about being alive,because life is good.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Life may not be party you hoped for,But that doesnt mean u should stop dancing!Remember you are the ...
ANMOL P. JAORA
I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI
Your life is expensive to those who loves you, so take care of your life.
NEHA KOTHARI
Why is love so expensive even when it exists everywhere?
NEHA KOTHARI
«Sarò nel programma di protezione testimoni,» disse Jack.
«Avrò un nome diverso, non so d...
JANE SEVILLE
When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS...
There is no time...but the present.
KENT POLLON
You have taken the step to cross the road, cross it. One step back can bring you an accident.
NEHA KOTHARI
Knowledge is not vast collection of academic degrees but right empowerment of open mind with an enli...
ANUJ SOMANY
God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is neve...
ANUJ SOMANY
Debt is simply selling a future to buy a present.
ANONYMUS
If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS...
Talk is cheap, until you hire a lawyer.
UNKNOWN
Even war can be silent
TANICA S HALL
It is better to be kept in the dark and continue on your merry way, than to be told a lie and to be ...
IRENEE HOUNGBLAME
Einmal hat ihm einer im Schlaf die Schuhe ausgezogen, reingeschissen und wieder angezogen. Um diese ...
HEINZ STRUNK
If you only think outside the box,you will always wonder what's inside. Keep your options open. Lore...
LORENZO VICTORY
Grey is… such a mean word. I don’t remember a time when I thought grey was anything but… pain....
DEE JUUSAN
Riprendo a correre, a tutta velocità. Non ho più paura di nulla. Non ho più paura di nessuno. Non...
MAKOTO SHINKAI
Love is too weak a word for what I feel. I luuurve you, you know, I loave you, I luff you, two F’s...
~RAM CHANDER(RC)
Le etichette possono essere riduttive. A volte bisogna smettere di pensare a genere e orientamento e...
JAY NORTHCOTE
But I do not do these things because we are a family. I do them because they are common decencies. T...
JOHNATHAN SAFRAN FOER
He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as sim...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
They do not desire anything more than everything they have known.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
What is being awake if not interpreting our dreams, or dreaming if not interpreting our wake?
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
The world is a pencil -- not a pen.
TODD BOSS
All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM
No more free steps to heaven.

- It's No Game
DAVID BOWIE
A tiger would birth a baby llama sooner than Rose would be barefoot in a dirty club.
KRISTA RITCHIE
Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding i...
JOHN WATERS

More Hunter S. Thompson

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Some may never live, but the crazy never die.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
'Crazy' is a term of art; 'Insane' is a term of law. Remember that, and you will sav...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which sti...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There might be some serious fun in politics.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly unde...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, do...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the ne...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hangi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I guess that's one of the things about growing up in the fifties - it never occurred to me that ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to fe...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In my heart, I am always a Raider.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Hell's Angels try not to do anything halfway, and anyone who deals in extremes is bound to c...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Without gambling, I would not exist.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The next MVP of the Super Bowl is just as likely to have been a full-time grocery store bagger last ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high place...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate pain, despite my ability to tolerate it beyond all known parameters, which is not necessarily...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
All gamblers lose regularly, but they rarely discuss it in public. Losing is bad for the image, dude...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
As long as I'm learning something, I figure I'm OK - it's a decent day.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance o...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I can't think in terms of journalism without thinking in terms of political ends. Unless there&#...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market tabulations, t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - wo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked u...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Good news is rare these days, and every glittering ounce of it should be cherished and hoarded and w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was nev...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am a writer, a professional journalist with serious credentials in Crime, Craziness, and Politics....
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
National Observer became my road gig out of San Francisco. I was too much for them. I would wander i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
“ ‘As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for ...
HUNTER S THOMPSON
Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Old elephants limp off to the hills to die; old Americans go out to the highway and drive themselves...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
America is just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The polls...indicate that Nixon will get a comfortable majority of the youth vote. And that he might...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to b...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “histor...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have tonight begun reading a stupid, shitty book by Kerouac called HUNTER S. THOMPSON If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish—a product of the demented imaginatio...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The tragedy of all this is that George McGovern, for all his mistakes and his imprecise talk about n...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Sex without love is as hollow and ridiculous as love without sex.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all som...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have en...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people -- including me -- woul...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Ten years before --- even five --- I had been the same way. I wanted it all and I wanted it fast and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It started when I left Vegas that first time, skipping the hotel bill, driving off in that red conve...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs -- unlike...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The Ping Eye 2 Beryllium One iron is my favorite club. All golfers fear and hate the One HUNTER S. THOMPSON There is a progression of understanding vis-?-vis pro football that varies drastically with the fact...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have thought this way several times in my life but only when circumstances have led me to a bad pa...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
But I am in the gambling business, for good or ill; it is the business I have chosen, and the only g...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
But then just days after it came out, I began to get calls and letters from all over the country say...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Graffiti is beautiful; like a brick in the face of a cop.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A word to the wise is infuriating.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he d...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have always hated bowling, and I don't mind admitting it.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. Bu...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clu...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned m...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am more than just a serious basketball fan. I am a life-long addict. I was addicted from birth, in...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it'...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have always loved blizzards, if only because of the driving experience - which is definitely an ac...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way....
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest even...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked fo...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen sudd...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shall...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Rush Limbaugh is a lame professional swine, and he makes a good living at it. He is like a hired gee...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the wee...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieve...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
As far as I'm concerned, it's a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Remember this, folks - I am a Hillbilly, and I don't always Bet the same way I talk. Good advice...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today's winners are tomorrow's blinkin...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at onc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is ri...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your hea...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consid...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Richard Nixon was an evil man - evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If there is, in fact, a Heaven and a Hell, all we know for sure is that Hell will be a viciously ove...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so cor...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We can't stop here, this is bat country!
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A cap of good acid costs five dollars and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony with God sing...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Cover a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman?
Hell no!"
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of history i...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Buy the ticket take the Ride
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter aci...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Good people drink good beer.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics ar...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Richard Nixon was a criminally insane Monster - Bill Clinton is a black-hearted Swine of a friend.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I felt a little guilty about jangling the poor bugger's brains with that evil fantasy. But what the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness ... Fear and Loathing ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered f...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It never got weird enough for me.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Even now, more than 30 years later, I still judge people on the basis of whether they voted for Jack...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
was doldrums time.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Be a beachcomber, a Parisian wino, an Italian pimp, or a Danish pervert; but stay away from the Arme...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Who are these people? These faces? Where did they come from? They look like caricatures of used car ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
So this is how the world works, all energy flows according to the whims of the great magnet.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
So much for Objective Journalism. Don't bother to look for it here--not under any byline of mine; or...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I agreed. By this time the drink was beginning to cut the acid and my hallucinations were down to a ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
On the way down the hill we walked three abreast in the cobblestone street, drunk and laughing and t...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A man who procrastinates in his choosing will inevitably have his choice made for him by circumstanc...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
A man can live on his wits and his balls for only so long.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
1) Never trust a cop in a raincoat.
2) Beware of enthusiasm and of love, both are temporary and...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
All my life, my heart has sought a thing I cannot name.

Remembered line from a long-
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The press is a gang of cruel faggots. Journalism is not a profession or a trade. It is a cheap catch...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
It is Autumn, as you know, and things are beginning to die. It is so wonderful to be out in the cris...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
and the sad notes floated out to the
patio and hung in the trees like birds too tired to fly
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I bought a small bottle of beer for fifteen cents and sat on a bench in the clearing, feeling like a...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years p...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Those of us who have been up all night were in no mood for coffee and donuts. We wanted strong drink...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We are all wired into a survival trip now. No more of the speed that fueled that 60's. That was the ...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Some may never live, but the crazy never die
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
We were warriors then, and our tribe was strong like a river
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
This was the fatal flaw in Tim Leary's trip. He crashed around America selling "conciousness expansi...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Still humping the American Dream
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
The possibility of physical and mental collapse is now very real. No sympathy for the Devil, keep th...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this clim...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON
What kind of rat bastard psychotic would play that song- right now, at this moment?
HUNTER S. THOMPSON