Feel Quotes

A word to the wise is infuriating.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Funny Word Wise

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Politics Your Art

There might be some serious fun in politics.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Politics Some Fun

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Truth Than Any

I was 22 when JFK was murdered, and I will never recover from it... Never.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Will Never Recover

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Your Thing Any

I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Time Imagination Than

Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: World Those Nothing

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: You Get Up

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Humor Never Much

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Sports Always Even

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion - and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Me Am Say

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Politics Like He

Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Who Our Them

The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Change Sports About

Yes sir, I am a tortured man for all seasons, as they say, and I have powerful friends in high places. Birds sing where I walk, and children smile when they see me coming.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Smile Me Am

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Best Sports About

If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Truth People Me

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Good Men Money

March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a 'gentleman gambler' when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely... There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.

Hunter S. Thompson

Tags: Good Your Will

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

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Tags: Experience Nature About