Quote

The behavior of the crowd at Churchill Downs is like 100,000 vicious Hyenas going berserk all at once in a space about the size of a 777 jet or the White House lawn.

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
Space
Jet
White
Lawns
House
Downs
Going
Vicious
Like
Crowd
Hyenas
Crowds
Berserk
Size
Churchill
Behavior
Lawn

More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson

Image
Wake up and ponder the future
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the law: Kerouac, Miller, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Kesey I didn't have a gauge as to who was the worst outlaw. I just recognized allies: my people.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
As your attorney, it is my duty to inform you that it is not important that you understand what I'm doing or why you're paying me so much money. What's important is that you continue to do so.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Sounds of life and movement, people getting ready and people giving up, the sound of hope and the sound of hanging on, and behind them all, the quiet, deadly ticking of a thousand hungry clocks.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Life is beautiful and living is pain.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Most people who deal in words don't have much faith in them and I am no exception.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I got tired and embarrassed by the constant poverty of those years. I told Doug [ Brinkley] this is really going to be a horrible downer of a book [The Proud Highway] if all it's going to be is about being broke. I didn't like being reminded of desperation at all times.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
The McGovern/McCarthy type candidacies have disappointed too many people, because of a disillusionment with the candidates themselves.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
and he would probably not agree with my conviction that a sense of humor is the main measure of sanity. But who can say for sure? Humor is a very private thing.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Familiarity seems to breed contempt
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
You took too much man, too much, too much.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
My blood is too thick for California: I have never been able to properly explain myself in this climate.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
I feel the same way about disco as I do about herpes.
Hunter S. Thompson
Image
Ah, lives there a man with soul so dead, who never to himself hath said As he hunched and rolled in his comfortable bed: To hell with the rent . . . I'll drink instead!
Hunter S. Thompson