Fun Quotes - Page 162
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson, Beef Torrey, Kevin Simonson (2008). “Conversations with Hunter S. Thompson”, p.13, Univ. Press of Mississippi
I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away.
As quoted in an interview in "Vanity Fair", August 2000.
There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
"The Divine Afflatus". New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917; reprinted in H. L. Mencken "Prejudices: Second Series", 1920, and in "A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing" edited by H. L. Mencken, 1949.
Gilles Deleuze (2004). “Difference and Repetition”, p.176, A&C Black
George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.
George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.52, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.
George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.205, Hachette UK
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Man and Superman act 1 (1903)
To serve the Word is to fulfill the highest function of which man is capable.
G. Campbell Morgan (2001). “The Ministry of the Word”, p.50, Wipf and Stock Publishers
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
Denise Levertov (1973). “The poet in the world”, New Directions Publishing Corporation