Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Pete Hautman

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

You ever watch a football game and get totally into it? Why? It's not a real battle. It's just a game somebody made up. So how can you take it seriously? Or, you ever see a movie that made your heart about jump out of your chest? Or one that made you cry? Why? It wasn't real. You ever look at a photo of food that made your mouth water? Why? You can't eat the picture. . . . . . Same thing with water towers and God. I don't have to be a believer to be serious about my religion.

Later it might see moronic, but at that time it all made perfect sense.

We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

We were defined by what we did. What we had to do. I think this is why guys like football, and why they join the army, because as long as you are playing the game or following orders you do not have to figure out who you really are.

Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.

How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?

The first step to success it's to imagine it