Proud Highway Quotes

#1. I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. Work on one thing at a time until finished.

Henry Miller

#3. Ah, that we lack the courage of our romantic convictions; and thereby miss the wine of life, forgoing the very thing that makes living worthwhile.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. Life is like that." papa turned once again to the Mekong. "Everything is connected, and sometimes we, like little fishes, are awept up in these big and powerful currents. Carried far from home ...

Vaddey Ratner

#5. Let us be separated by wars and pestilence, death, madness but not by the passing of time.

Mario Puzo

#6. LIBERAL, n. A man with his mind open at both ends.

Colin Falconer

#7. I'm left doing all the unskilled labor myself, which is exactly when you realize there's nothing unskilled about labor.

Colin Cotterill

#8. A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it?

Vera Nazarian

#9. Kate! Get some ice on that ankle or it's going to swell to the size of Luke's head. Then neither of you will be able to get through the front door.

Violet Cross

#10. Do they expect us to have sex right here on the kitchen table?"
Gunner, who was chewing a piece of toast, paused, considered the idea, and then shook his head. "Too messy. We'd get sugar everywhere. Plus, Cressy might walk in, and then I'd have to get her a second horse.

Katie MacAlister

#11. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective. So it would seem foolish, would it not, to adjust our lives to the demands of a goal we see from a different angle everyday? How could we ever hope to accomplish anything anther than galloping neurosis?

Hunter S. Thompson

#12. God is so great that the greatness precludes existence.

Raimon Panikkar

#13. We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.

Barack Obama

#14. Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead!

Alfred Eisenstaedt

#15. Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#16. You're a good man. (Rafael)
I guess we'll see in about five years, huh? If I die peacefully, then I'm good. If not, then we'll face each other again as predators. (Apollite)

Sherrilyn Kenyon