Steadman Quotes & Sayings

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish. — Ralph Steadman

What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me. — Ralph Steadman

She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope? — Sage Steadman

She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts? — Sage Steadman

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment. — Ralph Steadman

Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him. — Billy Bush

Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more. — Ralph Steadman

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. — Ralph Steadman

At first, I thought 'this series is going to be all about death and desecration,' but instead became a more complex landscape of human relationships. I hope I put something of these feelings into the portraits that I made of the characters, which were landscapes in themselves. An irony in the subject of crystal meth is how beautifully it resembles the desert sky. — Ralph Steadman

They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by thick snow, and they accepted the path they had chosen. — Sage Steadman

She had walked to the brink, abandoning all belief, and just before the bitter end, she was pulled from the abyss by faith. — Sage Steadman

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government. — Ralph Steadman

He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two evils - the pain and suffering he would endure in the river, a physical pain that he could stand to bear, or the pain and suffering he would feel if he had to watch his family wade across and freeze. It was not a decision. The choice had already been made the moment Ole proposed marriage to his wife and welcomed these beautiful daughters into the world. — Sage Steadman

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice. — Ralph Steadman

Jas. I don't normally like Katie Steadman that much. She's OK but I get the impression she thinks I am a bit on the superficial side. — Anonymous

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in. — Ralph Steadman

Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination. — Sage Steadman

Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred. — Ralph Steadman

To read or not to read...that is the question — Kendrick Steadman

Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time. — Ralph Steadman

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best. — Ralph Steadman

One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides. — Ralph Steadman

Energy can be created and destroyed. And God is energy. — John L. Steadman

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. — Ralph Steadman

Beware of privilege. It stinks of rotten rotten fish heads, many of which were lapping the shore beneath the jetties. — Ralph Steadman

Like you do about Nelson Mandela, you can't help feeling the guy's a good man. — Ralph Steadman

Isolationism is over. — Ralph Steadman

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved. — Ralph Steadman

He touched her arm. "Frau Steadman, how old are you?" "I am twenty-nine." She looked up at him, puzzled by the question. "Why?" He removed his hand and slid it into his trouser pocket. "You were a young bride, then." She tipped her head. "Yes, I suppose I was. No one seemed to think I was too young, however. My sister-in-law was very eager to see me wed. She could be rid of me then, you see." She offered a weak smile. "You are still a young woman. Do you - " his ears turned bright red - "do you ever wish to have another family?" Immediately she turned her attention to the pot of bubbling cornmeal mush. "I don't know." Why was he asking this? — Kim Vogel Sawyer

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. — Ralph Steadman

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels. — Ralph Steadman

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE. — Ralph Steadman

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other. — Ralph Steadman

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda. — Ralph Steadman

She slowly rolled the book over in her hands, memorizing the cover as she said goodbye. She flipped through the pages, feeling the air on her face and breathing in the smell of the paper. — Sage Steadman

You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go. — Ralph Steadman

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. — Ralph Steadman

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth. — Ralph Steadman

Mrs. Steadman, do you have a first name?" The question had taken her aback, and she had stammered out, "Well, of course I do. It's Summer." The boy's eyes had widened. "Summer? I like that name." She had shared the reason for her unusual name, watching his eyebrows rise. When she was finished, he had exclaimed, "You're like me, then. You don't have a ma, either." She had shaken her head. "No, I don't." Abruptly, he had turned the conversation back to her name. "May I call you Summer? When it's just us, I mean? Not in front of Rupert. — Kim Vogel Sawyer

The notes for Rosa Luxemburg were found next to his body. — Wallace Steadman Watson

The boy's skeletal frame was now all that remained of him, and through his flesh could be seen the steady beat of his indomitable heart. — Sage Steadman

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. — Ralph Steadman

There is no truly global justice. — Ralph Steadman

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. — Ralph Steadman

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else. — Ralph Steadman

We seem to think we have some control over this planet. — Ralph Steadman

I am ashamed of a human race that can continue to allow the sordid ambitions of politicized groups who genuinely feel that right is on their side, and can therefore instigate such atrocities in the name of their own sense of right and wrong. — Ralph Steadman

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war. — Ralph Steadman

Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago. — Ralph Steadman

Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do. — Ralph Steadman

Some had come to look upon death as a mercy. Death meant warmth. Death was light. Life was cruel, cold, heavy and dark. Life was pain. Death was deliverance, and many would welcome it. Others doggedly clung to life and willed themselves to walk on. — Sage Steadman

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. — Ralph Steadman

Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die. — Ralph Steadman

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance when, on the evening before the talks were scheduled to begin, Saddam Hussein announced that the independent state of Kuwait had, by virtue of a massive deployment of military force, become a part of Iraq. We were not to know that this act - and the name Saddam Hussein - would dominate international politics for the next decade and more, but it was still possible to witness something extraordinary: the sight of Mrs. Thatcher publicly inserting quantities of lead into George Bush's pencil. The spattering quill of a Ralph Steadman would be necessary to do justice to such a macabre yet impressive scene. — Christopher Hitchens

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more. — Ralph Steadman

I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices — Kim C. Steadman

She took comfort in the familiarity of his smell, knowing that if she lost all her possessions and her home, at least she would have her family. — Sage Steadman

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become. — Ralph Steadman

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles. — Ralph Steadman

The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals. — Ralph Steadman

They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children's toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion. — Sage Steadman

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. — Ralph Steadman

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. — Sage Steadman