Happy Campers Quotes

Quotes tagged as "happy-campers" Showing 1-15 of 15
Donald Barthelme
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.”
Donald Barthelme, The King

Fredric Brown
“people are complicated; you can't label 'em with a word.”
Fredric Brown

Rick Riordan
“Somebody had messed with my favorite place in the world, and I was not... well, a happy camper.”
Rick Riordan, The Sea of Monsters

B. Traven
“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.”
B. Traven, The Death Ship

David Markson
“if one wishes to see a cat badly enough, one will doubtless see one.”
David Markson

Chester Himes
“what i really need is a dead man.”
Chester Himes, Blind Man with a Pistol

Harper Lee
“It's grown people who always believe the worst”
Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman

Charles Willeford
“he was an oddity of some magnitude.”
Charles Willeford, Whip Hand

Fernando Pessoa
“inside the coop where he'll stay until he's killed, the rooster sings anthems to liberty because he was given two roosts.”
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Jim Dodge
“most reviews are written by morons about morons. sensibility is at a premium in american culture these days.”
Jim Dodge, Stone Junction

Padgett Powell
“in the event that armed men of any sort enter the building, watch their feet closely.”
Padgett Powell, The Imperative Mood

John Steinbeck
“The french are a moral people--judged, that is, by american country club standards.”
John Steinbeck, The Short Reign of Pippin IV

B. Traven
“i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.”
B. Traven, The Death Ship

“there is one demon loose upon the world who spends all his infinite time and energy on the devising of all the vicious little coincidences which confound mankind. his specialty is to confront the unwary with coincidences so eerie, so obviously planned by a malevolent intelligence, that time itself comes to a full stop and his victim stands transfixed by a conviction of unreality, while in infra-space, the demon hugs his hairy belly, kicks his hooves in the air, rolling and gasping with silent laughter.”
John D MacDonald

“there's nothing worse on this earth than privileged bureaucratic assholes who work the system. they never get caught, and if they do, there are no real consequences.”
C.J. Box, Breaking Point