Bill Hicks Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
-
When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
-
I can be more cold than people would like me to be.
-
It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
-
It gets late early out there.
-
'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.
-
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.
-
We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.
-
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
-
I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
-
I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the actors are the same.
-
I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.
-
Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
-
I was feeling a lot of confidence, so I wanted to take advantage of that and keep playing.
-
Mencius said that human nature is good. I disagree with that.
-
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
-
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
-
I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free.
-
In 'Teen Wolf,' I don't really have any stunts. And if I do, it's like Stiles falls on the ground or something like that.
-
Even the worst book can give us something to think about.
-
We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.
