Quotes - Aaron Scott (The United States) Showing 1-30 of 67

#1

“How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?”
― Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano

94 likes

#2

“...she knew again that her humour had saved her only for larger destructions; that the mad and the murdered, the living, must learn to hold their chemical breath.”
― Dow Mossman, The Stones of Summer

5 likes

#3

“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I've lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.”
― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

tags: awesome

1141 likes

#4

“It is astounding to find that the belly of every black and evil thing is as white as snow. And it is saddening to discover how the concealed parts of angels are leporous.”
― John Steinbeck, Tortilla Flat

15 likes

#5

“Winter days were static glimpsed between channel flips.”
― Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude

4 likes

#6

“I want a tattoo over my heart that reads TRY HARDER YOU LAZY PARAMEDIC SHITBAG OR I WILL HAUNT YOUR BEDROOM FOREVER”
― Warren Ellis

tags: first-aid, inspirational, tattoos

167 likes

#7

“By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.”
― Warren Ellis, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 3: Year of the Bastard

tags: misanthropy, optimism, suicide

563 likes

#8

“Why is it one can busta rhyme or busta move anywhere, but one must busta cap in someone's ass?”
― Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal

68 likes

#9

“Animals might put up with that smiley shit, but people will eventually kill you for it.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

63 likes

#10

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

4096 likes

#11

“Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done. Except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

128 likes

#12

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

tags: adventure, death, life

5806 likes

#13

“mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.”
― Joseph Heller

tags: survival

151 likes

#14

“Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

2234 likes

#15

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: activism, life, philosophical

1279 likes

#16

“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices First Series

tags: diplomacy, love, outrage

776 likes

#17

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”
― H.L. Mencken, Prejudices: Third Series

474 likes

#18

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”
― H.L. Mencken

57 likes

#19

“Fell in love with a beautiful blonde once. Drove me to drink. And I never had the decency to thank her.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: drinking

148 likes

#20

“If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.”
― W.C. Fields

44 likes

#21

“Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.”
― W.C. Fields

tags: belief, drinking, humor

327 likes

#22

“Christmas crept into Pine Cove like a creeping Christmas thing: dragging garland, ribbon, and sleigh bells, oozing eggnog, reeking of pine, and threatening festive doom like a cold sore under the mistletoe.”
― Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

tags: first-sentence, humor

159 likes

#23

“To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.”
― Marquis de Sade

tags: atheism, god, religion

145 likes

#24

“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

tags: affection, alcohol, drinking, emotion, humor

867 likes

#25

“I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: faith, fool, humor, self-confidence, self-irony

6465 likes

#26

“If you're looking for sympathy you'll find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.”
― David Sedaris, Barrel Fever: Stories and Essays

tags: sympathy

6314 likes

#27

“Shit is the tofu of cursing and can be molded to whichever condition the speaker desires. Hot as shit. Windy as shit. I myself was confounded as shit...”
― David Sedaris

tags: profanity, shit, swearing, tofu

389 likes

#28