Quote

If Sunday is the Lord's day, then Saturday belongs to the Devil. It is the only night of the week when he gives out Free passes to the Late show at the Too Much Fun Club.

Hunter S. Thompson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hunter S. Thompson
Age: 67 †
Born: 1937
Born: July 18
Died: 2005
Died: February 20
Autobiographer
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Photographer
Politician
Reporter
Screenwriter
Writer
Louisville
Kentucky
Hunter Stockton Thompson
Show
Clubs
Night
Devil
Late
Shows
Gives
Saturday
Giving
Fun
Passes
Much
Week
Belongs
Lord
Club
Free
Sunday

More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Image
All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Jim Harrison is someone I always enjoy, one of the great contemporary writers. I like Tim Ferris' Big Boom Theory. I'm getting into a different kind of reading, not straight novels.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
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
Image
Good people drink good beer.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Perceive is the word that became in the '72 campaign what charisma was for the 1960, '64 and even the '68 campaigns. Perceive is the new key word. When you say perceive you imply the difference between what the candidate is and the way the public or the voters see him.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Still humping the American Dream
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.
Hunter S. Thompson