A Quote by Hunter S. Thompson

It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.

Hunter S. Thompson

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Hunter S. Thompson
American - Journalist
July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005

I think with 'Ghosts' it's slightly affected my image of what ghosts would be. Before I didn't really think about it that much.

Lolly Adefope

(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

Jonathan Safran Foer

Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

Jack Kerouac

but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.

David Nicholls

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.

Joseph Brodsky

The image can only be studied through the image, by dreaming images as they gather in reverie. It is a non-sense to claim to study imagination objectively since one really receives the image only if he admires it. Already in comparing one image to another, one runs the risk of losing participation in its individuality.

Gaston Bachelard

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

Dorothea Lange

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

Dean Koontz

There were nights when he took a deal more rum and water than his head could carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked old wild sea-songs, minding nobody... Often I have heard the house shaking with Yo-ho-ho and a bottle and rum, all the neighbours joining in for dear life with the fear of death upon them and each singing louder than the other to avoid remark. Fiften men on the dead man's chest, Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil have done for the rest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!

Robert Louis Stevenson

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.

Michael Crichton

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

David Sarnoff

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

Plutarch

Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.

Kehinde Wiley

I changed my mind. I don’t want to be an inveshtigative journalist anymore. I want to be a professional rum drinker.” “There are people who do that,” Duff said. He’d barely sipped his rum. “Really? What do you call them?” “Alcoholics.

Libba Bray

I'm a really restless person; I'm tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it's hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world.