Edge Hunter S Thompson Quotes & Sayings

When my book was first sent out to publishers, my agent told me to buy a lot of ice-cream and wait. So I bought a gigantic amount of ice-cream, and huddled by the freezer eating it and shaking, hoping someone would like it. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I'm amazed by the ground that I covered. The music's the number-one thing. And if it isn't, you better quit now. — Bobby Womack

It seemed to me that everybody ended up in Toronto at least for a little while. — Alice Munro

The philosophy commonly called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. — Ludwig Von Mises

To a degree, the West is reaping what it sowed from a major strategic blunder in the aftermath of 9/11 - the entire concept of a war on technique, that is, terrorism. Defining the enemy when fighting a concept was impossible. — Kurt Eichenwald

We the Jainists of India say every day in our prayer, I worship all perfected souls, I worship all spiritual masters, I worship all spiritual instructors, I worship all holy men and women in the world. — Virchand Gandhi

The Edge ... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. — Hunter S. Thompson

The highway from the airport into town was one of the ugliest stretches of road I'd ever seen in my life. The whole landscape was a desert of hostile black rocks, mile after mile of raw moonscape and ominous low-flying clouds. Captain Steve said we were crossing an old lava flow. Far down to the right a thin line of coconut palms marked the new Western edge of America, a lonely-looking wall of jagged black lava cliffs looking out on the white-capped Pacific. We were 2,500 miles west of The Seal Rock Inn, halfway to China, and the first thing I saw on the outskirts was a Texaco station, then a McDonald's hamburger stand. — Hunter S. Thompson

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography. — Graeme Le Saux

My voice? Yeah, well, I used to drink a lot of beer when I was a kid and I sounded like a drunk in a choir. I don't drink anymore. — Eric Burdon

It was dangerous lunacy, but it was also the kind of thing a real connoisseur of edge-work could make an argument for. — Hunter S. Thompson

My greatest fortune was that I was ordered to take up art for the good of my health — Kyffin Williams

Many of the most accomplished girls are disconnecting from the truest parts of themselves, sacrificing essential self-knowledge to the pressure of who they think they ought to be. — Rachel Simmons

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. — Hunter S. Thompson

If a policeman must know the Constitution, then why not a planner? — William J. Brennan

That's where Time magazine lives ... way out there on the puzzled, masturbating edge, peering through the keyhole and selling what they see to the big wide world of Chamber of Commerce voyeurs who support the public prints. — Hunter S. Thompson

I had to learn to trust more intimately in the power and presence of God, and to dare to let go of the need to control and orchestrate life. As — John Tourangeau

Not having a specified launch plan and process is one of the biggest pitfalls in the technology market. — Brian Lawley

Mavens are data banks. They provide the message. Connectors are social glue: they spread it. But there is also a select group of people-Salesmen-with the skills to persuade us when we are unconvinced of what we are hearing, and they are as critical to the tipping of word-of-mouth epidemics as the other two groups. — Malcolm Gladwell