The Asphalt Warrior Quotes

“To me, knowing how to do something is like cheating.

That's why I never studied in grade school. Studying made passing tests too easy. Anybody can pass a test if he studies. But I wanted to explore the furthest limit of my inh'rnt knowledge. Apparently my limit is C minus.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“There was a little optometrist shop on south Broadway tucked in between a pizza joint and what amounted to a head shop where you could buy glow-in-the-dark posters, bongs, and whatever else the hippies began marketing after they went commercial in the '70s... I had never visited the optometrist shop. The entrance had a 1930s look that I liked—art deco molded-tin awning over the doorway, and Bakelite tiles on the foyer walls. It looked like the kind of business that would be owned by an elderly optometrist who had serviced families for generations and personally ground lenses in his back room. I liked the look of the shop, but I drove right past it on my way to Sight City!!! where you could buy Two Pair for the Price of One!!! according to the billboards plastered all over Denver blocking every decent view of the Rocky Mountains.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“Money can't buy happiness—but it can buy beer.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“I'll take my alkaloid diuretics wherever I can get them. If there isn't a 7-11 in the vicinity, a Winchell's donut shop is Plan B. The joe at both places is almost indistinguishable, like the difference between Johnny Walker and Cutty Sark, but only cab drivers and hobos draw such fine distinctions.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“I've been broke, and I've been in debt, and broke is better.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“The word deadline is defined as “a boundary line in a prison that prisoners can cross only at the risk of being shot.” I”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“A self-help guru would call this attitude "bending in the wind," but I just call it "giving up.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“I was about to get drawn deeper into the personal lives of not only people, but people I didn't really know. Ironically, those are the kinds of people I like best. I wish I didn't know anybody. I would get along better with them.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior

“I'll admit it. Every once in awhile I'll read a book that has a plot. I was weaned from plots in college, but there comes a time when a man gets tired of reading detailed descriptions of the inner landscapes of characters whose pointless lives are ground to ash by their inability to move in any direction.”
― Gary Reilly, The Asphalt Warrior