Bill Hicks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
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I did all of California from north to south. I did Florida from north to south. I went to the Midwest. I spent time discovering the culture because I thought I was going to stay in America for only two years. Then I decided to come to New York.
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I remember in the '80s, Randy Travis was my guy. He's the reason I moved to Nashville, and I just loved him. But at some point when he was winning everything, you find yourself pulling for other people.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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It gets late early out there.
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'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.
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I am happy with being a tennis player and the choice I took when I was 12. But clearly, if I wouldn't have been a tennis player, I would have loved to be a soccer player. But again, I am happy with the choice I made.
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We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
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I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
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I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
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Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
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When I'm doing a photo shoot, I'm not playing a part. I'm just trying to be myself.
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Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength.
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I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.
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I have no idea when it's going to be, when I'll retire.
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All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the 'bowl of stew' of bodily satisfactions.
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We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
