Skip to content

Book Quote by Bill Hicks

“The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but 'What am I reading for?' Goddammit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a... waffle…” quote by Bill Hicks — Download Open image

“The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but 'What am I reading for?' Goddammit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a... waffle waitress.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings)

Book Ends Hmm Reading Reason Waffles Waitress

More by Bill Hicks

I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

Image

not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

Image

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Image

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

Image

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again?…

Image

BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book.

Image

Christianity has a built-in defense system: anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by…

Image

I'm just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious...

Image

I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted: a fireman, a policeman, a doctor – even President, it seemed.…

Image

Good comedy helps people know they're not alone. Great comedy provides an answer.

Image

People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both…

Image

Oh sorry, I was taking life seriously.

Image

Explore all 317 Bill Hicks quotes

More Book quotes

I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not…

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Image

If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

Image

Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who…

Image

The Rosary is the book of the blind.

Fulton J. Sheen

Image

I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

Image

I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

Image

It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't…

Patrick Rothfuss

Image

I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

Image

Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society…

Image

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

Image

There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.

Image

The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy.

Benjamin Graham

Image

Browse all 29,278 Book quotes