The 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. 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

#3. It is not enough that you can form nay, and follow, the most excellent rules for conducting yourself in the world. You must also know when to deviate from them, and where lies the exception.

Sir Fulke Greville

#4. Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#5. Pina colada kisses and cocaine nips
never lie, swear to me that this feeling is real.

Lori Jenessa Nelson

#6. 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

#7. Men such as they are, very naturally seek money or power; and power because it is as good as money.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Whether you like it or not, the course of your (America's) history has made you the leaders of the world. Your country can no longer think provincially.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn