Top 78 Goddam Quotes
#1. Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.
Luke Rhinehart
#2. I don't even like old cars. I mean, they don't even interest me at all. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human
J.D. Salinger
#3. She gave me the big freeze when I said hello that day, though. I had a helluva time convincing her that I didn't give a good goddam where her dog relieved himself. He could do it in the living room, for all I cared.
J.D. Salinger
#4. Love is no rose. It's a goddam weed that digs its roots in deep, there's no hope of getting it out. - Nina Valance, human novelist married to a telekinetic (circa 1977)
Nalini Singh
#5. I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.
AJ Lee
#6. I dreamed one night that I had 17 holes-in-one and one two, and when I woke up I was so goddam mad.
Ben Hogan
#7. We've had the goddam Ages of Faith, we've had the goddam Age of Reason. This is the Age of Publicity
William Gaddis
#8. The goddam movies. They can ruin you. I'm not kidding
J.D. Salinger
#9. You take somebody that cries their goddam eyes out over phoney stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they're mean bastards at heart.
J.D. Salinger
#10. In spite of their hats being very ugly, Goddam! I love the English.
Bertrand Barere
#11. She is a writer, what the fuck do you expect from her other than passion, truth and goddam soul?
Nikki Rowe
#13. You sat around this fucking place moping like a damn child for the last six days. If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're having your goddam man-period right now.
Danielle Jamie
#14. People never think anything is anything really. I'm getting goddam sick of it.
J.D. Salinger
#15. You maniacs! You blew it all up! Goddam you all. Goddam you all to hell.
George R. Taylor
#16. You know," he laughed easily, "with all the goddam drinkin' Ah've done, Ah still can't remember the taste of it unless Ah got the bottle right with me.
Norman Mailer
#17. All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you.
J.D. Salinger
#18. I'm just interested in finding out what the hell goes. I mean do you have to be a goddam bohemian type, or dead, for Chrissake, to be a real poet? What do you want - some bastard with wavy hair?
J.D. Salinger
#19. I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
J.D. Salinger
#20. Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
J.D. Salinger
#21. Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J.D. Salinger
#22. My big trouble is, I always sort of think whoever I'm necking is a pretty intelligent person. It hasn't got a goddam thing to do with it, but I keep thinking it anyway.
J.D. Salinger
#23. People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.
Sam Lipsyte
#24. On top of everything else," he said immediately, "we've got 'Wise Child' complexes. We've never really got off the goddam air. Not one of us. We don't talk, we hold forth. We don't converse, we expound. At least I do ... it's impossible for me to keep my mouth shut.
J.D. Salinger
#25. I come from a whole goddam family of inventors," said Will. "We had ideas for breakfast. We had ideas instead of breakfast. We had so many ideas we forgot to make the money for groceries.
John Steinbeck
#26. Look at 'em,' he said. 'Goddam fools.' 'Who?' said Ginnie. 'I don't know. Anybody.
J.D. Salinger
#27. If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.
Garrison Keillor
#28. So, standing here looking at you, all grown up, the question I ask is simple. In the long run, how different is a goddam hot dog from a Vienna sausage?
Charles Frazier
#29. It ends up with everybody at this long dinner table laughing their asses off because the great Dane comes in with a bunch of puppies. Everybody thought it was a male , I suppose, or some goddam thing. All I can say is, don't see it if you don't want to puke all over yourself.
J.D. Salinger
#30. American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar (a British advertising man with a proper education can make magazine copy for ribbed condoms sound like the Magna goddam Carta), but it has its own scruffy charm
Stephen King
#31. I'm no goddam animal. I may be a stupid, fouled-up twentieth-century son of a bitch, but I'm no animal. Don't gimme that. I'm no animal.
J.D. Salinger
#32. They say that age kills the fire inside of a man, that he hears Death coming, he opens the door and says, "Come in, give me rest!" That is a pack of goddam lies.
Anthony Quinn
#33. Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else.
Lawrence Tierney
#34. Shit!" Evelgold added.
"What?" Hook asked, alarmed.
"I just stepped in some."
"That's supposed to bring you luck," Hook said.
"Then I'd better dance in the goddam stuff.
Bernard Cornwell
#35. Get busy living, or get busy dying. That's goddam right.
Stephen King
#36. Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.' ...
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
Jack Kerouac
#37. Knife fights are something that happen between the Sharks and the Jets, that's it. Everywhere else, it's not a fight, it's just someone trying to goddam kill you.
Greg Rucka
#38. I am incomparably, incredibly, overwhelmingly glad to be home. I've never been so goddam lonesome in my life.
John Steinbeck
#39. That water's colder'n hell!"
That's what makes it good. That's what makes it help all your bruises'n bumps'n stuff."
It's colder'n a goddam witch's tit in there!
Daniel Woodrell
#41. I don't think about politics," Rabbit says. "That's one of my Goddam precious American rights, not to think about politics.
John Updike
#42. Goddam life, I say, if you can't laugh you might as well laugh anyway. That's my goddam attitude, and I stick by it; this ain't a sad world unless you're sane.
Stephen King
#43. Women kill me. They really do. I don't mean I'm oversexed or anything like that - although I am quite sexy. I just like them, I mean. They're always leaving their goddam bags out in the middle of the aisle.
J.D. Salinger
#44. Abhorrent and beyond inappropriate, reachable only through hours of hiking into the Realm of Really Goddam Wrong.
Sarah Wendell
#45. But that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
Jack Kerouac
#46. Don't talk to me about rules, dear. Wherever I stay I make the goddam rules.
Maria Callas
#47. Always, always, always referring every goddam thing that happens right back to our lousy little egos.
J.D. Salinger
#48. Life is a goddam mess ... but you wouldn't want to miss it!
Joseph Mitchell
#49. A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
Lester Bangs
#50. For I thought Epicurus and Lucretius
By Nature meant the Whole Goddam Machinery.
Robert Frost
#51. Keep away, keep away," Hungry Joe screamed. "I said keep away, keep away, you goddam stinking lousy son of a bitch." "At least we found out what he dreams about," Dunbar observed wryly. "He dreams about goddam stinking lousy sons of bitches.
Joseph Heller
#52. Dad-a-jum, dad-a-jiggers, goddam lobsters bit off your fingers, King said, and actually laughed.
Stephen King
#53. Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
Al Capone
#54. She gave life a meaning.
She was art, dressed like a painters pallet, bright and unaware of how goddam beautiful she could be turned into; with the right touch, her smile was the brush and her story was the canvas.
Nikki Rowe
#55. Too goddam many lawyers mixed up in this. Run the sonsobitches out. If they resists shoot 'em, that's what I says to the Governor, but they're all these sonsobitches a lawyers fussin' everythin' up all the time with warrants and habeas corpus and longwinded rigmarole. My ass to habeas corpus.
John Dos Passos
#56. Every tune I came to the end of a block and stepped off the goddam curb, I had this feeling that I'd never get to the other side of the street. I thought I'd just go down, down, down, and nobody'd ever see me again.
J.D. Salinger
#57. I've flown over seventy goddam combat missions. Don't talk to me about fighting to save my country. I've been fighting all along to save my country. Now I'm going to fight a little to save myself. The country's not in danger any more, but I am.
Joseph Heller
#58. You're a goddam funny kid, Clivey," he said. "I got sixteen grandchildren, and there's only two of em that I think is gonna amount to duckshit, and you ain't one of em - although you're on the runner-up list - but you're the only one that can make me laugh until my balls ache.
Stephen King
#59. I'm the one flunking out of this goddam place, and you're asking me to write you a goddam composition.
J.D. Salinger
#60. Andy says, I don't understand how they can give loans to people who want to spend two weeks lying on the sand at the goddam Jersey shore and then turn down a woman with three kids hanging on by her fingernails.
Frank McCourt
#61. I was surrounded by phonies ... They were coming in the goddam window.
J.D. Salinger
#62. This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don't mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one.
J.D. Salinger
#63. If I were a piano player, I'd play it in the goddam closet.
J.D. Salinger
#64. Just let them sit in the goddam sun. But the world won't let them because there's nothing more dangerous than letting old farts sit in the sun. They might be thinking. Same thing with kids. Keep 'em busy or they might start thinking.
Frank McCourt
#65. Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen King
#66. There's only one rule I know of - Goddam it, you've got to be kind.
Kurt Vonnegut
#67. You know what she said? She says nobody gets a nervous breakdown just from the war and all. She says you probably were unstable like, your whole goddam life.
J.D. Salinger
#68. Most of what bein human's about is making choices and payin the bills when they come due. Some of the choices are pretty goddam nasty, but that don't give a person leave to just walk away from em ... In a case like that, you just have to make the best choice you can n then pay the price.
Stephen King
#69. Listen," he said. "If you was a fish, Mother Nature'd take care of you, wouldn't she? Right? You don't think them fish just die when it gets to be winter, do ya?"
No, but
"
You're goddam right they don't
J.D. Salinger
#70. Leaving senior year like:
its hard to leave to you leave, then its the eased goddam thing you've ever done.
John Green
#71. You would think he was somebody the way he carries on. My God, he's from Spartanburg. Spartanburg of all the pitiful places. The upcountry. The goddam, no-count upcountry.
Pat Conroy
#72. Yes, I have an ulcer, for Chrissake. This is Kaliyuga, buddy, the Iron Age. Anybody over sixteen without an ulcer's a goddam spy.
J.D. Salinger
#73. Who in the Bible besides Jesus knew
knew
that we're carrying the Kingdom of Heaven around with us, inside, where we're all too goddam stupid and sentimental and unimaginative to look?
J.D. Salinger
#75. At least I'm still in love with Yorick's skull. At least I always have time enough to stay in love with Yorick's skull. I want an honorable goddam skull when I'm dead, buddy. I hanker after an honorable goddam skull like Yorick's.
J.D. Salinger
#76. That goddam stunted, red-faced, big-cheeked, apple-cheeked, curlyheaded, midget assed, , google-eyed, undersized, grinning, buck-toothed rat!!" Yossarian sputtered.
~ Catch-22
Joseph Heller
#77. Well, we can skip childhood because I didn't have any. Not one goddam moment on the Good Ship Lollipop.
Joan Crawford
#78. You're lucky if you get time to sneeze in this goddam phenomenal world.
J.D. Salinger
