Hannes > Hannes's Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.”
― Kinky Friedman

“But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.”
― Kinky Friedman, Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned

“You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.”
― Kinky Friedman

“There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979”
― Kinky Friedman, The Mile High Club

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
― Willie Nelson

“There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.”
― Willie Nelson

“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”
― Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.”
― Harry Edwards

“People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?"

[Interview in The Independent, 15 October 2005]”
― Lemmy Kilmister

“...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.”
― Lemmy Kilmister, White Line Fever: The Autobiography

“I ain't gonna worry wrinkles in my brow, cuz nothin's never gonna be alright nohow. No matter how I struggle and strive, I'll never get out of this world alive.”
― Hank Williams

“But the Grateful Dead, as the fanatic fans point out, are a way of life: someone else's. Twentieth-century teenagers, especially American ones, have been brilliant at creating their own culture, their own music, clothes, and point(s) of view. It's sad and fraudulent that the kind of wholesale worship of some historical way of life has settled over so many young people, infecting them like a noxious gas... I love the dead--grew up in the thrall of Shakespeare and Hank Williams and James Dean. And I adore the Rolling Stones. But there's a difference between cherishing "Satisfaction" and wearing Keith Richards' hair while doing Keith Richards' drugs. I don't want to be Keith Richards. I wanna be me. Not--like the neo-Deadheads--just another extra in an overblown costume drama about something that wasn't that interesting the first time around.”
― Sarah Vowell, Radio On: A Listener's Diary

“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”
― Ken Bruen, The Killing of the Tinkers

“If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.”
― Christopher Moore, Practical Demonkeeping

“There's some heinous fuckery goin' on mon.”
― Christopher Moore, Fluke: Or, I Know Why the Winged Whale Sings

“OMFGEIGHTPOUNDBABYJESUSONAPOGOSTICK WHAT?”
― Christopher Moore

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but...”
― Kinky Friedman

“Most people, of course, spend their lives caring about the wrong things. The worry about South Africa or Nicaragua. They spend so much time finding themselves that they lose their taxicabs. They don't see that what kind of napkin you get at a delicatessen is a matter of much significance in the world today.
That's why they don't get linen”
― Kinky Friedman

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”
― Charles Bukowski