Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.
Hunter S. Thompson
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Back
Fearless
Might
Killed
Thing
Atheism
Always
Fronts
Never
Front
Like
Turn
Turns
Fear
More quotes by Hunter S. Thompson
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
Most of my stuff is just a series of false leads. I'll approach a story as a subject and then make a whole bunch of different runs at the lead. They're all good writing but they don't connect. So I end up having to string leads together.
Hunter S. Thompson
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
Hunter S. Thompson
Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.
Hunter S. Thompson
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.
Hunter S. Thompson
Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.
Hunter S. Thompson
If you can't make yourself understood by your friends, you'll be in trouble when your enemies come for you.
Hunter S. Thompson
The pleasure is in the path, the search for something good.
Hunter S. Thompson
You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.
Hunter S. Thompson
I miss Nixon. Compared to these Nazis we have in the White House now, Richard Nixon was a flaming liberal.
Hunter S. Thompson
Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Hunter S. Thompson
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
Hunter S. Thompson
The possibility of physical and mental collapse is very real now... but collapse is out of the question as a solution or even a cheap alternative, it is unacceptable. No sympathy for the devil keep that in mind.
Hunter S. Thompson
Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday.
Hunter S. Thompson
There is always room for losers in the football business. They are the mother's milk of gambling, and why not? Somebody has to do it, or there won't be any winners.
Hunter S. Thompson
I think you either have to have a very strong decisive person at the top or else a really brilliant staff command.
Hunter S. Thompson
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
Hunter S. Thompson
We are all wired into a survival trip, now.
Hunter S. Thompson
I measure my life in pages. If I have pages at dawn, it's been a good night.
Hunter S. Thompson
It never got weird enough for me.
Hunter S. Thompson
