Arsed Quotes

#1. This is what you get in life. Wee flannel-arsed naebodies sittin' behind a desk tryin' to make you sweat in your stool. And see when they do? Y'can feel the wind-up key take another turn in your back.

Ian Pattison

#2. I'm a fucking razor-arsed starship, you maniac! I'm not male, female or anything else except stupendously smart and right now tuned to smite. I don't give a fuck about flattering you. The few and frankly not vitally important sentiments I have concerning you I can switch off like flicking a switch.

Iain M. Banks

#3. I'm so bored I could do something, but can't be arsed. I'm unmotivated as well as bored. It's a killer combination.

Gillibran Brown

#4. The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened.

Joe Abercrombie

#5. I can't be arsed with game players. I'm more 'I like you, do you like me? Let's go and do something about it.' I'm a very straightforward person like that.

Amy Winehouse

#6. Yeah, beware the small man ... Always beware the small man. He'll fuck you every time. Because they never forget, do they? All that grief they got at school. Over and over, and for the rest of their miserable short-arsed lives, someone's got to pay.

John Niven

#7. Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.

Dan Meredith

#8. Whatever you do, do it completely. Don't do it half-arsed. Do it more than anybody else would.

Christian Bale

#9. All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its ... motivation. Thus vampires spend a lot of time lounging around and staring out of the window and finding they can't be arsed.

Glen Duncan

#10. In town and in country there must be landscapes where we can walk in safety, pick fruit, cycle, work, sleep, swim, listen to the birds, bask in the sun, run through the trees and laze beside cool waters.

Tom Turner

#11. I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it's gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.

Johnny Nash

#12. I hope I'm becoming more eccentric. More room in the brain.

Tom Waits

#13. If you focus on the world's deficiencies and stop there, then you'll probably feel horrible and paralyzed. But why stop there? It's intellectually dishonest to focus on what's wrong with the world without acknowledging our rich history of overcoming incredible odds.

T.K. Coleman

#14. Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them ... your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

Dan Millman

#15. We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents ... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison.

Vladimir Lenin

#16. it's 'bout how we humans got our spirit. I

David Mitchell

#17. Editing cannot be taught. Developing your own taste cannot be taught.

Ellen Datlow

#18. The borders of Israel and an independent Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps. Each state needs secure and recognized borders, and there must be robust provisions that safeguard Israel's security.

Denis McDonough

#19. I will have you without armor, Kaz Brekker. Or I will not have you at all.

Leigh Bardugo

#20. What is the greatest deficiency among human Chrsitians? They have an inadequate view of human suffering.

Helmut Thielicke