Doug Stanhope Quotes

“Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing.”

“Everything that is going to kill you is extremely appetizing.”

“Chances multiply when you take them.”

“The only certainties in life are “time” and “change.” The question you must ask yourself: is now the time to change?”

“Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires.”

“I got a statistic for you right now. Grab your pencil, Doug. There are five billion trees in the world. I looked it up. Under every tree is a shadow, right? So, then, what makes night? I'll tell you: shadows crawling out from under five billion trees! Think of it! Shadows running around in the air, muddying the waters you might say. If only we could figure a way to keep those darn five billion shadows under those trees, we could stay up half the night, Doug, because there'd be no night!”

“Any dog can bed down a lot of females. But only a real man can love one woman for a lifetime.”

“For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.”

“I found a brief piece of by Antonio Vivaldi around this time which became my ‘Pinhead Mood Music’. Called Al Santo Sepolcro (At The Holy Sepulchre), it opens more like a piece of modern orchestral music, and although it it moves toward Vivaldi’s familiar harmonies, there is always the threat that it will fall back into dissonance. The piece progresses in an exquisite agony, poised on a knife edge between beauty and disfigurement, joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. Perfect.”

“Negative self talk costs more than even the richest person can afford. So be nice to yourself whenever possible … and know that it is always possible.”

“To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.”