Bill Hicks Quotes (53 Quotes)

We are trying to revitalize things here, ... We want to make Calvert home to the three A's - authors, artists and antiques.

Are there moths on the way to the sun right now going, It's gonna be worth it

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

I have something to tell you non-smokers that I know for a fact that you don't know, and I feel it's my duty to pass on information at all times. Ready. . . . Non-smokers die every day . . . Enjoy your evening. See, I know that you entertain this eternal life fantasy because you've chosen not to smoke, but let me be the 1st to POP that bubble and bring you hurling back to reality . . . You're dead too.

Supreme Court says pornography is anything without artistic merit that causes sexual thoughts that's their definition, essentially. No artistic merit, causes sexual thoughts. Hmm. . . . Sounds like . . . every commercial on television, doesn't it

Why is marijuana against the law It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural

It's just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don't know one child with a full time job and children.

You know all that money we spend on the military ever year -- trillions of dollars Instead, if we use this money to feed and clothe the poor of this world, which it would do many times over, then we can explore space, inner and outer, together, as one race.

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth, and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

My voice was not heard, the questions were not asked that I wanted to see asked.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

It can stay in the body for a couple of days and the pill itself can operate for nine days, ... But generally, in the case of football players, the food's going to push through more quickly. So, as a general rule, it's a 24-hour, one-day pill.

I don't like anything in the mainstream and they don't like me.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.

God help me. I'm so tired. I need my sleep. I make no bones about it. I need eight hours a day, and at least ten at night. . . .

I love talking about the Kennedy assasination. The reason I do is because I'm fascinated by it. I'm fascinated that our government could lie to us so blatantly, so obviously for so long, and we do absolutely nothing about it. I think that's interesting in

I don't do drugs anymore... than, say, the average touring funk band.

Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.

If child molestation is actually your concern, how come we don't see Bradley tanks knocking down Catholic churches

I thought our guys were flat, but (CDS) is a good team, definitely a talented team. I think the lesson from this is our boys need to show up in a highly aggressive, competitive state of mind.

How about a positive LSD story Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies I think it would be news-worthy.

Your denial is beneath you, and thanks to the use of hallucinogenic drugs, I see through you.

It basically has a crystal in it whose frequency is proportional to a temperature, ... As the temperature increases, the frequency increases and vice versa.

Childbirth is a miracle. No, it's not. . . . It's a chemical reaction, that's all.

One of my big fears in life is that I'm gonna die and my parents are going to come to clean out my apartment and find that porno wing I've been adding on to for years.

No, I don't do drugs anymore, either. But I'll tell you something about drugs. I used to do drugs, but I'll tell you something honestly about drugs, honestly, and I know it's not a very popular idea, you don't hear it very often anymore, but it is the truth I had a great time doing drugs. Sorry. Never murdered anyone, never robbed anyone, never raped anyone, never beat anyone, never lost a job, a car, a house, a wife or kids, laughed my ass off, and went about my day.

Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

I believe that God left certain drugs growing naturally upon our planet to help speed up and facilitate our evolution. OK, not the most popular idea ever expressed. Either that or you're all real high and agreeing with me in the only way you can right now. (Starts blinking)

I'm not really a heavy smoker any more. I only get through two lighters a day now.

I'm a heavy smoker. I go through two lighters a day.

People in the United Kingdom and outside the United States share my bemusement with the United States that America doesn't share with itself.

It's great to be here. I thank you. Ah, I've been on the road doing comedy for ten years now, so bear with me while I plaster on a fake smile and plough through this shit one more time.

It's really weird how your life changes. Tonight I'm drinking water. Four years ago Opium. Night and day, you know

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

They also have a sense of irony, which America doesn't have seeing as it's being run by fundamentalists who take things literally.

Sometimes you feel in control, and it's great, but sometimes you just don't feel in control and you really have to struggle to get laughs.

The musicians today who don't do drugs and in fact speak out against it Rock Against Drugs BOY do they suck.

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved You ever noticed that Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. I believe God created me in one day Yeah, looks like He rushed it.

As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

Listen, the next revolution is gonna be a revolution of ideas.

People laugh at the Stones because of their age. Mick, Charlie, Ron and Keith can still play with the best of the young bands today.

I'll show you politics in America. Here it is, right here. 'I think the puppet on the right shares my beliefs.' 'I think the puppet on the left is more to my liking.' 'Hey, wait a minute, there's one guy holding out both puppets'

Childbirth is no more a miracle then eating food and a turd coming out of your ass.