Emmanuel > Emmanuel's Quotes

“They say night's beauties fade at dawn, and the children of wine are oft disowned in the morning light.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“I think life is a jape. Yours, mine, everyone's”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“once the cow’s been milked there’s no squirting the cream back up her udder.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“I embrace my own festering diseased corruption,”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“There are lots of things we don’t want to know about the people we love.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“She seemed a bit crazy but I kept looking at her body and I didn't care.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“I pushed up against her warm tail and was asleep in 45 seconds.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Lady, how the hell do I know who you are or I am or anybody is?”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Courage comes from the belly - all else is desperation.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Baby, that's grammar school. Any damn fool can beg up some
kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Out
here we call it hustling. I'd like to be a good hustler.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Doch manche Dinge kann man nicht durch Nachdenken ergründen, man muß sie erfahren.”
― Michael Ende, The Neverending Story

“When you have known the kiss of a flaying knife, a laugh loses all its power to hurt you.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Drowning was bad enough. But drowning sad and sober, that's too cruel.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“A little brother may live to be a hundred, but he will always be a little brother.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Whore!" someone cried out. A woman's voice. Women were always the cruelest where other women were concerned.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“...and Jon had ordered benches and tables brought in. Men with comfortable seats were more inclined to listen, Maester Aemon had once told him; standing men were more inclined to shout.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“Mais, bien sûr, nous qui comprenons la vie, nous nous moquons bien des numéros!”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

“C'est tellement mystérieux, le pays des larmes.”
― Antoine De Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince

“There was also the socio-psychic factor. Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas. To relax, as it were, in the womb of the desert sun. Just roll the roof back and screw it on, grease the face with white tanning butter and move out with the music at top volume, and at least a pint of ether.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“For a loser, Vegas is the meanest town on earth.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“How many more nights and weird mornings can this terrible shit go on? How long can the body and the brain tolerate this doom-struck craziness? This grinding of teeth, this pouring of sweat, this pounding of blood in the temples… small blue veins gone amok in front of the ears, sixty and seventy hours with no sleep.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“Es un error el creer que la palabra y el pensamiento sean funciones ligadas entre sí, y que sin el lenguaje no se pueda pensar.”
― Erich von Däniken, According to the Evidence

“We would be attending the conference under false pretenses and dealing, from the start, with a crowd that was convened for the stated purpose of putting people like us in jail. We were the Menace - not in disguise, but stone-obvious drug abusers, with a flagrantly cranked-up act that we intended to push all the way to the limit...not to prove any final, sociological point, and not event as a conscious mockery: It was mainly a matter of life-style, a sense of obligation and even duty. If the Pigs were gathering in Vegas for a top-level Drug Conference, we felt the drug culture should be represented.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“My attorney put down the phone after making several calls. “There’s only one place where we can get fresh salmon,” he said, “and it’s closed on Sunday.” “Of course,” I snapped. “These goddamn Jesus freaks! They’re multiplying like rats!”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“The reefer butt is called a 'roach' because it resembles a cockroach… cockroach… cockroach…”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream