Luke > Luke's Quotes

“Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“There are many ways of getting strong, sometimes talking is the best way.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“Few of us are granted the grace to know ourselves, and until we do, maybe the best we can do is be consistent.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“I slide to my knees and say, "Please let this be over." Then, I'm not ready for it to be over.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“How beautiful to dream. But dreams, I tell Gil, in one of our quiet moments are so damned tiring.
He laughs.
I can't promise you that you won't be tired, he says. But please know this. There's a lot of good waiting for you on the other side of tired. Get yourself tired, Andre. That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“A win doesn’t feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn’t last as long as the bad. Not even close.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“We talk about things. We talk about nothing.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You’re a thermostat. You don’t register the temperature in a room, you change it.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“Also, now that I know roughly who I am, I want to close my eyes and hide from it.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“We are like blocks of stone … blows of His chisel which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“I can’t dwell on tomorrow any more than I can dwell on yesterday.”
― Andre Agassi, Open

“A world without hope, but no despair”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Everybody says sex is obscene. The only true obscenity is war.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I think myself so important... I simply can’t think about anything else, that’s all. If I could fall in love with a woman that might help some. But I can’t find a woman who interests me.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I felt free and chained at the same time - like one feels just before election, when all the crooks have been nominated and you are beseeched to vote for the right man.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“[...]as Sylvester says, a man who has never been afflicted with a neurosis does not know the meaning of suffering.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. A year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. Everything that was literature has fallen from me. There are no more books to be written thank God.”
― Henry Miller

“They cut the umbilical cord, give you a slap on the ass, and presto! you're out in the world, adrift, a ship without a rudder. You look at the stars and then you look at your navel. You grow eyes everywhere–in the armpits, between the lips, in the roots of your hair, on the soles of your feet. What is distant becomes near, what is near becomes distant. Inner-outer, a constant flux, a shedding of skins, a turning inside out. You drift around like that for years and years, until you find yourself in the dead center, and there you slowly rot, slowly crumble to pieces, get dispersed again. Only your name remains.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance, but a dance!”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“It's hard to talk to a person when you have nothing in common with him or her, you betray yourself.”
― Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer

“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, that we were all actors, kidding ourselves along on a senseless odyssey. It was the tension between these two poles - a restless idealism on one hand and a sense of impending doom on the other - that kept me going.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“I was not proud of what I had learned but I never doubted that it was worth knowing.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary

“you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“Isn't it pretty to think so.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I am always in love.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“This is a good place," he said.
"There's a lot of liquor," I agreed.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises