Quote

I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman...come in the guise of a comic...to heal perception by using...'jokes'.

Bill Hicks

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Hicks
Age: 32 †
Born: 1961
Born: December 16
Died: 1994
Died: February 26
Comedian
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Journalist
Musician
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Writer
Valdosta
Georgia
William Melvin Hicks
Like
Perception
Using
Jokes
Artists
Shaman
Western
Guise
Culture
Cultures
Artist
Heal
Come
Comic

More quotes by Bill Hicks

Image
I find it ironic that people who are against things that cause sexual thoughts are generally fundamentalist Christians who also believe you should be fruitful and multiply.
Bill Hicks
Image
No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans.
Bill Hicks
Image
I believe it is our own misperceptions of who we really are that leads to every self-created hell you'll find in this world.
Bill Hicks
Image
It seems to me that there will be a point in out development or our evolution where you put your guns aside.
Bill Hicks
Image
We're supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?
Bill Hicks
Image
Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.
Bill Hicks
Image
I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind's sole purpose on this planet.
Bill Hicks
Image
I don't identify with anyone historically, but there are several people in the future who I am a dead ringer for.
Bill Hicks
Image
They Want You To Be A Docile Apathetic Consumer
Bill Hicks
Image
People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.
Bill Hicks
Image
You are the imagination of yourself.
Bill Hicks
Image
Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.
Bill Hicks
Image
I was just down in Dallas, Texas...the Assassination Museum...it's really accurate, you know, 'cause Oswald's not in it.
Bill Hicks
Image
You're not a human till you're in my phone book. There. My hat is now in the political ring.
Bill Hicks
Image
When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.
Bill Hicks
Image
Okay, I got one word to ask you, a one word question, ready?
Bill Hicks
Image
Mister, I don't want no trouble. I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister.
Bill Hicks
Image
So scary watching the news...Like Iraq...could ever under any stretch of the imagination be any threat to us whatsoever.
Bill Hicks
Image
I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.
Bill Hicks
Image
I'm tired of this back-slappin' isn't humanity neat bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.
Bill Hicks