Evan > Evan's Quotes

“Younger citizens of the town do not know him at all save as a tall, apparently strong and healthy man who loafs in a brooding, saturnine fashion wherever he will be allowed, never exactly accepted by any group.”
― William Faulkner

“I have very bad posture.”
― Kurt Cobain

“He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's halfway hopeful.”
― Don Delillo

“The Duke [John Wayne] was a massive figure. He looked like a heavy piece of hauled lumber, and it didn't seem like any man could stand shoulder to shoulder with him.”
― Bob Dylan

“I'm the oldest son of a crazy man, I'm in a cowboy band.”
― Bob Dylan

“North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east or west; there was only the brooding desolation.”
― Shelby Foote

“But, mate, my heart is sore for Christian diet. You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese--toasted, mostly--and woke up again, and here I were.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.”
― Tom Waits

“You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.”
― Billy Joe Shaver

“The trade is meaningless. It is like trading a used mattress for a $300 bill.”
― Hunter Thompson

“Work is what horses die of. Everybody should know that.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Roses are red and violets are purple,
sugar is sweet and so is maple surple.”
― Roger Miller

“It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.”
― Hunter S. Thompson

“All the best matadors were Fascists.”
― George Orwell

“Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.”
― Henry Louis Gates

“This country was built on the backs of dudes who drank on buses. What we do honors them.”
― Sam Lipsyte, The Ask

“So much death and no coffee to be had.”
― Daniel Woodrell, Woe to Live On

“Let's go drink our beers and thumb our noses at those who would do us harm.”
― Hugo Pratt