Steadman Quotes

I knew it was the right thing to do because I started feeling some of the toxicity inside me melt away and peace begin to fill in the crevices ~ Kim C. Steadman

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason. ~ Ralph Steadman

America is ripe for lies and lethargy. The pure mountain air is going and gone. It is a huge burden and a sadness for us all. ~ Ralph Steadman

They could have fought against it, begged for another way or gone off the path in hopes of finding an easier passage. Instead, they looked upon the trail ahead, the rough ridge, now bound by thick snow, and they accepted the path they had chosen. ~ Sage Steadman

The betrayal of people's good will, good trust that things are being done for the best and they actually ARE being done for the best. ~ Ralph Steadman

Call immediately. Time is running out. We both need to do something monstrous before we die. ~ Ralph Steadman

The notes for Rosa Luxemburg were found next to his body. ~ Wallace Steadman Watson

I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other. ~ Ralph Steadman

Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth. ~ Ralph Steadman

Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released. ~ Ralph Steadman

Ann did detention like Whitney Houston did cocaine - frequently and without consideration of the consequences. ~ Sage Steadman

She slowly rolled the book over in her hands, memorizing the cover as she said goodbye. She flipped through the pages, feeling the air on her face and breathing in the smell of the paper. ~ Sage Steadman

Half of art is accident, but there is no accident without free experiment. ~ Ralph Steadman

We seem to think we have some control over this planet. ~ Ralph Steadman

They left their encampment with dirt-covered linen strewn about the abandoned grounds amongst clothes, shoes, children's toys and other discarded belongings. The handcart wheels crunched over them, and the dry wheels screamed as the Willie Company started for Zion. ~ Sage Steadman

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph. ~ Ralph Steadman

He just wasn't into flaunting his awesomeness, but sometimes a person's awesomeness simply flaunts itself, even when you politely ask it not to. ~ Sage Steadman

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war. ~ Ralph Steadman

Her sadness was like a deep well just beneath the surface of her determination. ~ Sage Steadman

Sometimes you're the lamp post, and sometimes you're the dog. ~ Catherine Steadman

To read or not to read...that is the question ~ Kendrick Steadman

But that's life, isn't it? Sometimes you're the dog; sometimes you're the lamppost. ~ Catherine Steadman

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories. ~ Ralph Steadman

I notice my sudden jump in logic. From making a mistake to actively committing a crime. Just like that. I wonder if that's how it starts with a lot of criminals... ~ Catherine Steadman

Then, as she twisted to the right, she revealed her talking partner. I literally broke step, my body deciding before my brain that my presence would not be needed in their interaction. Carol was gorgeous. A tall, confident, amazon of a woman. The lines of her gold lamay dress skimming every curve of her body. She was clearly not wearing underwear. She looked like a glossy magazine perfume ad. And this man was her magazine equal. He was perfect. Tall. Substantial. He looked muscular without giving the impression that he worked out. Maybe he was a rower. Or it could be tennis. Maybe he chopped down trees. Yes, he'd be very good at chopping trees down. I remember feeling an unnaturally strong desire to watch him do that. ~ Catherine Steadman

Whores get bow-legged and bankers get mean, which is strange when you think that that if whores get bow-legged, bankers should get generous, but they never do. ~ Ralph Steadman

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. ~ Sage Steadman

She considered what had made Denmark home to her anyway. Was it the sense of familiarity? That wherever she went there were echoes of a hundred memories she could pluck from her thoughts? ~ Sage Steadman

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice. ~ Ralph Steadman

Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more. ~ Ralph Steadman

Steadman! Any guy that's got Oprah as a girlfriend, I mean that's a good dude. I want to talk to him. ~ Billy Bush

He was not being courageous as he bore the freezing stream for his wife and children. He simply chose between the lesser of two evils - the pain and suffering he would endure in the river, a physical pain that he could stand to bear, or the pain and suffering he would feel if he had to watch his family wade across and freeze. It was not a decision. The choice had already been made the moment Ole proposed marriage to his wife and welcomed these beautiful daughters into the world. ~ Sage Steadman

Hunter and I never got proper journalistic accreditation to go anywhere. Nobody was giving us passes to go in here or there. We always had to somehow talk our way in. ~ Ralph Steadman

You see that's what I think is such a terrible, terrible betrayal, the trust that people have in government. ~ Ralph Steadman

He touched her arm. "Frau Steadman, how old are you?" "I am twenty-nine." She looked up at him, puzzled by the question. "Why?" He removed his hand and slid it into his trouser pocket. "You were a young bride, then." She tipped her head. "Yes, I suppose I was. No one seemed to think I was too young, however. My sister-in-law was very eager to see me wed. She could be rid of me then, you see." She offered a weak smile. "You are still a young woman. Do you - " his ears turned bright red - "do you ever wish to have another family?" Immediately she turned her attention to the pot of bubbling cornmeal mush. "I don't know." Why was he asking this? ~ Kim Vogel Sawyer

I'm not going to say goodbye, in case God hears and thinks I'm ready to go. ~ M.L. Steadman

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more. ~ Ralph Steadman

Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda. ~ Ralph Steadman

What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE. ~ Ralph Steadman

I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on my side. ~ Ralph Steadman

I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles. ~ Ralph Steadman

I think it would be best if, when you're having suicidal thoughts of stabbing yourself, that you try to think of rainbows instead."
"Rainbows?" Ann said hugging a pillow.
"Yeah," Lisa said, standing back to look at her wall art. "Ya know - happy, bright, refreshing, the calm after the storm, God's gift to the earth."
"Or the aliens' gift," Ann added.
"Course," Lisa agreed. "Can't rule that out. ~ Sage Steadman

But you don't sign up for certain things without knowing the rules, Erin. And if you've signed up for the game, then you can't complain when you lose. You got to lose with dignity is all; a good sportsman always lets people lose with dignity. ~ Catherine Steadman

In retrospect, I suppose it might be difficult to develop early as a girl. Guys talking to your chest rather than your face is one thing. Then you're also surrounded by a bunch of girls with pre- adolescent bodies who wrongly think that no breasts and no ass are a good thing. Plus, if you own your sexuality at all as a teen girl you're a slut with a capital S. God, I'm glad those days are over. Not like adulthood is void of sexist platitudes, it's just easier to talk about. In high school, though, if you call someone out on their shit you get bullied. It's really a horrible time in life. Honestly, I don't even know why there is an entire genre of books dedicated to it. ~ Sage Steadman

Whats a gonzotic frenzy? Well its me in the throes of an ink splattering attempt to capture the feeling I have at that particular time. ~ Ralph Steadman

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved. ~ Ralph Steadman

Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels. ~ Ralph Steadman

In the spring of 1990 I flew to Aspen, Colorado, to cover a summit meeting between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President George Herbert Walker Bush. This fairly routine political event took on sudden significance when, on the evening before the talks were scheduled to begin, Saddam Hussein announced that the independent state of Kuwait had, by virtue of a massive deployment of military force, become a part of Iraq. We were not to know that this act - and the name Saddam Hussein - would dominate international politics for the next decade and more, but it was still possible to witness something extraordinary: the sight of Mrs. Thatcher publicly inserting quantities of lead into George Bush's pencil. The spattering quill of a Ralph Steadman would be necessary to do justice to such a macabre yet impressive scene. ~ Christopher Hitchens

There is no truly global justice. ~ Ralph Steadman

One can derive the same fun from print-making as from making mud pies and great subtlety can be achieved through the use of transparent inks, half-tone screens and even accidental colour combinations, which is often where the art hides. ~ Ralph Steadman