Quotes - Jonny Parshall (Newaygo, MI) Showing 1-20 of 20

#1

“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

5817 likes

#2

“Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others.”
― Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion

tags: compassion, heart-muscles, karma-yoga, karma-yoga-the-yoga-of-action, kindness, oneness, removal-of-suffering, spirituality

13 likes

#3

“I start in the middle of a sentence and move both directions at once.”
― John Coltrane

38 likes

#4

“Beware, O wanderer, the road is walking too.”
― Jim Harrison, After Ikkyu & Other Poems

76 likes

#5

“You cats mind if I make it a trio?' he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice.”
― Jesse Andrews, The Haters

tags: humor, young-adult

3 likes

#6

“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

2901 likes

#7

“I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."

"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

580 likes

#8

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: good, writing

19421 likes

#9

“Holder: "I thought Mormon's weren't allowed to have caffeine?"
Breckin: "I decided to break that rule the morning I woke up gay.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

473 likes

#10

“Write drunk; edit sober.”
― Peter De Vries, Reuben, Reuben

tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway

85 likes

#11

“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: road

4383 likes

#12

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

92253 likes

#13

“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

1621 likes

#14

“Can't be part of the rat race when you're one of the rats who knows you're in a cage.”
― Ed Brubaker

41 likes

#15

“I'm not talking about killing Cobblepot and Scarecrow or Clayface. Not Riddler or Dent... I'm talking about him. Just him. And doing it because... because he took me away from you.”
― Judd Winick, Batman: Under the Red Hood

17 likes

#16

“This is it, this was my new home, or prison I wasn't entirely sure yet which. I am not sure if I am ready for anything that is to come, but it seems I have very little choice.”
― Kerri E. Lorenz, The Chronicles of Laoonica: The Prince of the Raspites

tags: uncertainty

2 likes

#17

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway, misattributed-leonard-cohen

561 likes

#18

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
― Oscar Wilde

tags: education-knowledge

4457 likes

#19

“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational

4366 likes

#20

“Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

tags: confidence, honesty

4763 likes

Jonny Parshall > Jonny's Quotes

Tags From Jonny’s Quotes