“The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.” Quote by Thane Rosenbaum
“There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.” PlansNo PointLashes Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“Any candidate who'd offered a real possibility of an alternative to Nixon - someone with a different concept of the presidency - could have challenged him and come very close to beating him.” DifferentRealPossibilityConceptsAlternativesCandidatesPresidency Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.” WorldWayImportantDifferentLawArtistDifferent WaysLenses Author:Thane Rosenbaum
“I think it might be better to have the President sort of like the King of England - or the Queen - and have the real business of the presidency conducted by ... a city manager-type, a Prime Minister, somebody who's directly answerable to Congress, rather than a person who moves all his friends into the White House and does whatever he wants for four years.” ThinkingWantYearsPersonsDoeRealMightMovingHousePresidentWhiteCitiesFourTypeKingsEnglandCongressManagersMinistersQueensWhite HousePrimeFour YearsPresidencyPrime Minister Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.” NeedsKindStarsRocksAmerican PoliticsRock StarFever Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“It's much more fun to run a political campaign than it is to be the candidate.” RunningPoliticalFunCampaignsCandidatesPolitical Campaign Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“It's the difference between watching a football game between two teams you don't care about, and watching a game where you have some kind of personal identity with one of the teams, if only a huge bet.” IfsKindTwoCareGamesDifferencesTeamIdentityFootballHugeDon't CareFootball GamePersonal Identity Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.” ThinkingMenHas BeensEndsMen And WomenGreat MenSymptomsVansSplendidVirginiaGrimBipolarWoolfPlathSchumann Author:Stephen Fry
“Any kind of political campaign that taps the kind of energy that nothing else can reach would generate a tremendous high for everybody involved in it.” KindPoliticalEnergyInvolvedCampaignsPolitical Campaign Author:Hunter S. Thompson
“You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids, but to assess teachers. I think we're unique in doing that.” ThinkingKnowsMayUseKidsRememberNationsTeacherUniqueTestsScoreTest Scores Author:John Merrow