Top 44 Gonzo's Quotes
#1. Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in vogue when he was honing his craft at Rolling Stone back in the day.
Thomas Frank
#2. I'm just saying it's not all sand castles and ninjas.
Libba Bray
#4. 'Gonzo' means taking an unknown thing to an unknown place for a known purpose. But sometimes we're lost in an unknown place for no known purpose.
Jerry Jeff Walker
#6. Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.
Bernard Crick
#7. Often I wish this would all be over, Liesel, but then somehow you do something like walk down the basement steps with a snowman in your hands.
Markus Zusak
#8. I wasn't paid a dime for my track career. But participating in the Olympics gave me the opportunity to learn about different cultures; it made me a better person. I wouldn't trade the time I competed for anything.
Wyomia Tyus
#9. Treat life as a suicide mission, take on the impossible jobs and attack with the gusto of someone who has nothing to lose ... and when you revel in victory, make like it's a dirty win
Josh Stern
#10. How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection..
Hunter S. Thompson
#11. It - I was pretty much equipped, by experience and inclination, for mayhem.
Jim Butcher
#12. I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
Gavin Rossdale
#14. Because for Gonzo, anything which may explode at any moment is clearly a girl.
Nick Harkaway
#15. These measures may not constitute an absolute guarantee of peace, but, in my opinion, they constitute the greatest preventive measures ever adopted by nations.
Frank B. Kellogg
#17. If you walked into Netscape headquarters with a plain old modem from CompUSA they'd think it was a garage-door opener.
Walt Mossberg
#19. I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions ... It is the unknown quantity from which and where I want to go. As a thing, an object, it accedes to its non-logical self. It is something, it is nothing.
Eva Hesse
#21. My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.
Lykke Li
#22. The proper bookmark for a Hunter Thompson book is a pair of brass knuckles.
Jonathan Heatt
#23. I have to say, I'm still surprised anyone's nice to me, that anyone talks to me. But I think people understand that other people go through things. We're all a bit gonzo, and you're allowed to take a little time to get your head on straight.
Natasha Lyonne
#24. Specifically, in the software industry, progress is highly sequential: progress is typically made through a large number of small steps, each building on the previous ones.
Eric Maskin
#25. Anyone that is able to put a high school film and gonzo journalism together, it's like, "Yes, please!"
Zoe Kravitz
#26. So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?
Hunter S. Thompson
#27. Las Vegas and the American Dream: two ideas intertwined like crossed fingers on a bloated corpse.
Jonathan Heatt
#28. Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.
Jonathan Dunne
#29. The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution - another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!
Susan Barbara Apollon
#30. I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe.
Hunter S. Thompson
#32. Gonzo ... acidic hilarity ... 'The Fun Parts' has fine moments, but it's not the whole Lipsyte story. Read it with 'The Ask' if you really want to know how a mordant jokester with a madman's imagination became a literary rock star.
Janet Maslin
#33. What sells, today, is whatever Fucks You Up - whatever short-circuits your brain and grounds it out for the longest possible time.
Hunter S. Thompson
#34. Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.
Mordecai Wyatt Johnson
#35. You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before
Italo Calvino
#36. We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
Hunter S. Thompson
#38. The only way to write honestly about the scene is to be part of it. If there is one quick truism about psychedelic drugs, it is that anyone who tries to write about them without first-expierience is a fool and a fraud.
Hunter S. Thompson
#39. An outlaw can be defined as somebody who lives outside the law, beyond the law and not necessarily against it.
Hunter S. Thompson
#40. Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.
Libba Bray
#41. Earth is such a sweet 'n sour place, thought Gonzo, puffing on his seaweed roll-up, and he knew that if aliens did exist, then they'd probably only stop to avail of this planet's toilet facilities on the intergalactic highway.
Jonathan Dunne
#42. Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leaving - those are the ones who are most worth attracting.
Margaret Heffernan
#43. Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism ...
Hunter S. Thompson
#44. I guess the biggest difference from the things I've done in the past is that my work will be more narrative-driven adult films or vignettes, not just "gonzo" scenes, which are straight sex, no storyline.
Sasha Grey
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