Top 33 Nick Tosches Quotes
#1. An extraordinary writer ... It is the vastness of Nick Tosches' heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
Hubert Selby Jr.
#2. There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.
Lawrence Taylor
#3. message was also personal - a taunt, a challenge, maybe even an explicit warning, broadcasting his achievements and plans. She had absolutely no doubt he meant the message
Dominic Selwood
#5. The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.
Nick Tosches
#6. He was overcome by a violent and fraternal love for this man from whom he had felt so distant, and he realized that by killing him he had consummated a union which bound them together forever.
Albert Camus
#7. Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.
Nick Tosches
#8. The things I wanted to be when I was a kid were an archeologist, because of dinosaur bones; a garbage man, because they got to ride on the side of the trucks; and a writer.
Nick Tosches
#10. For years, I never really pondered how I came to be a writer from where I came from.
Nick Tosches
#11. As a young man, I felt a need to communicate with somebody or something, but it seemed in my own particular environment that that wasn't an option. On the other hand, I probably lacked the courage to do so, even if it was an option.
Nick Tosches
#13. Joe Bonomo has written a fine book: a book not only about a band or times passed, but also about the rare virtue of endurance.
Nick Tosches
#14. As he landed Wade said, was stepping through a wall of treacle The light, on your carbine,' and pointed with the torch he himself held.
Neal Asher
#15. Well, just another thing that Michael Cole brings to Monday Night Raw, he invited Laycool here, for whatever reason.
Josh Mathews
#16. I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
Nick Tosches
#17. I want to explain how exhausted I am. Even in my dreams. How I wake up tired. How I'm being drowned by some kind of black wave.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#18. It just seems like overkill when you already have a dagger and I have superpowerful magic at my disposal."
"'Superpowerful?'"He stood up, a gold chain dangling from his fingers. "Let me remind you of two words, Mercer: Bad. Dog.
Rachel Hawkins
#19. The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!
John Irving
#20. When I was young, I kept trying to read 'Moby-Dick', and I couldn't get that far into it. And I kept thinking, 'Well, man, if I can't read the great American novel, I could never be a writer.' And this bothered me a great deal.
Nick Tosches
#21. Jesus, would you look at him. Hair too long and too blond. Eyes too sexy and too blue. Body too buff, ego in danger of liftoff. Standing there in his tight fitted jeans, painted-on T-shirt, and snakeskin boots, he looked like God's guilty gift. Trouble was, he knew it.
Cindy Gerard
#22. Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.
Nick Tosches
#23. Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
Nick Tosches
#24. In response to the question, 'How can we help to promote world peace?' Mother Theresa replied, 'Go home and love your children.
Mother Teresa
#25. God wills in man only that which is good, in the kingdom of his grace; where the free will yields itself up into the grace, there God wills that which is good in the will, through the grace.
Jakob Bohme
#26. To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.
Nick Tosches
#27. It is always easier to see in another what we are uncomfortable with in ourselves.
Nick Tosches
#28. If you want to know what's going on, keep your mind in the fridge or it might go off.
Benny Bellamacina
#29. If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
Hans Zimmer
#30. I think Elvis Presley will never be solved
Nick Tosches
#32. Exceptional men do not hold their experiences to be out of the ordinary or of interest to anyone else. Unlike the trodden fungus-men, they are not so ignorantly and presumptuously self-absorbed. They are nobody and they know it. They shun notice. They are exceedingly rare.
Nick Tosches
#33. One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology.
Alan Greenspan
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