E. P. Thompson Quotes
What was important was trying to create something that families could watch together and enjoy together
What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
Never mind the track. The track is for punks. We are Road People. We are Cafe Racers.
I'd been chasing females all my life, not paying no mind to the fact that whatever's got tail at one end has teeth at the other, and now I was getting chomped.
You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.
I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.
Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid war on the other side of the world
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
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.
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
Sane is rich and powerful. Insane is wrong and poor and weak. The rich are free, the poor are put in cages. Res Ipsa Loquitur, amen. Mahalo.
Constantly worrying about your reflection and criticizing your body, shape and size is an act of violence against yourself.
It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.
Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you.
In fact, we started off with two or three different shells and the shell had life of its own.
In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.
If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.
At a certain point one ceases to defend a certain view of history; one must defend history itself.
I think I've realized that when you are aiming to create a real body of work, you are as much defined by the things you don't do, as by the things you do.
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.
A cap of good acid costs $5, and for that you can hear the Universal Symphony, with God singing solo and the Holy Ghost on drums.
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning.