The first time I managed to pick up a basketball I knew I was destined to lead the UK to another National… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
right' i said. 'but first, we need the car. and after that, the cocaine. and then the tape recorder, for special music,… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I don't mean to say that I'm about to state my credo here on this page, but merely to affirm, sincerely for… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're fooled quickly. You want to be fooled. If you can't trust your first impression you're going to have a harder… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
My first feeling was a wild desire to drive a stake in the sand and claim the place for myself. The beach… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first paragraph. The last paragraph. That's where the story is going and how it's going to end. Or else you'll go… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism -- which is true, but they miss… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Goddammit. Yeah, I have. First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Good mescaline comes on slow. The first hour is all waiting, then about halfway through the second hour you start cursing the… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The first impression is always the right one. I rarely change my mind upward about people. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“There was also the fact that sending a penniless writer to get $135 worth of beer was — as Khrushchev said of Nixon —… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cases of champagne and scotch lay broken in the street, and everyone I saw had a bottle. They were screaming and dancing, and in… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
No one holds command over me. No man. No god. No Prince. What is a claim of age for ones who are immortal? What… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb grey hairs” — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with no hint… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
At age 22 I set what I insist is an all-time record for distance hitchhiking in Bermuda shorts: 3,700 miles in three weeks. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
Paranoia is just another mask for ignorance. The truth, when you finally chase it down is almost always far worse than your darkest visions… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“No doubt they all Got What Was Coming To Them. All those pathetically eager acid freaks who thought they could buy Peace and Understanding… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
“For several months they'd been drifting toward political involvement, but the picture was hazy and one of the most confusing elements was their geographical… — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
