Bucky Sinister Quotes

#1. Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

Bucky Sinister

#2. Being able to play tragedy for humor rather than pity is a new trick I've learned. For a long time that's what I did with my poetry, ask people to feel sorry for me. I got sober and I realized I have to get out of the pity thing; it's not going anywhere for me. I don't want to have any self-pity.

Bucky Sinister

#3. They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die.
If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

Bucky Sinister

#4. Your work is not what gives you your food, it's what gives you your hunger.

Lucien Zell

#5. Maximum Rocknroll
didn't have a map section.
How was I supposed to know
that Berkeley was not
a neighborhood of San Francisco?

Bucky Sinister

#6. The difference of a single day is perceptible. Vegetables can only be tasted in perfection, gathered the same day.

John Pintard

#7. Q: How do you tell when there's an elephant in the pit?
A: Peanut shells on the floor.

Bucky Sinister

#8. We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

Bucky Sinister

#9. It's not enough to be oppressed, you must also be in the right. Most oppressed people are in the wrong to an almost ridiculous degree. What shall I believe in?

Orhan Pamuk

#10. Q: What's the difference between a tweaker and an elephant?
A: The elephant will eat all your peanut butter.

Bucky Sinister

#11. Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

Bucky Sinister

#12. If e'er again I meet him beard to beard, he's mine or I am his.

William Shakespeare

#13. Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.

Bucky Sinister

#14. There are times when one certain snow condition is great for one particular brand of skis.

Lindsey Vonn

#15. A short time ago the demagogues blamed capitalism for the poverty of the masses. Today they rather blame capitalism for the "affluence" that it bestows upon the common man.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. I always knew I was a man, always felt that I was a man, always wanted to be a man.

Little Richard

#17. Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

Bucky Sinister

#18. What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good ...

Martin Luther

#19. There was my other big misconception. That if I got sober and went to a meeting they'd make me believe in God. Not true. They ask you to believe in a higher power. You need a higher power, but it doesn't have to be a super-natural entity. You have all this power inside you.

Bucky Sinister