Hobos Quotes

• Maybe you'll end up like me, a hobo with a shotgun.

  Rutger Hauer

  Ends, Shotguns, Like Me

  "Fictional character: Hobo". "Hobo with a Shotgun", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• I'm not a vagrant... I'm a hobo. Big difference.

  Lee Child

  Differences, Vagrants, Bigs

  "Killing Floor". Book by Lee Child, March, 1997.

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• Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Two, Storm, Way

  'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' (1898) pt. 2, st. 12

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• I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights

  Art Linkletter

  Poor, Grew Up, Knows

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• I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.

  Pete Seeger

  Proud, Jungle

  "When Pete Seeger Faced Down the House Un-American Activities Committee" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. January 28, 2014.

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• My mother, we were a very poor family. When I was a kid, we would be in our little room, and there would be a knock on the door almost every night with a hobo begging for food. Even though we didn't even have enough to eat, my mother always found something to give them.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mother, Kids, Night

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• If life is music, I sometimes feel as though I was born on the off-beat of the song, and I love it. As Christian numbers reportedly decrease in America, my love for Christ feels as though it increases. I must be honest about such strange feelings: I now want to be thought unfaithful about as much as a bougie aristocrat wants to be thought a hobo.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Song, Numbers

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• Nothing says romance like hobos, martyrs and decapitations.

  Craig Ferguson

  Romance, Martyr

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson", 2005-2014.

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• I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

  Tom Robbins

  Distance, Moon, Hair

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• I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Reading, Light, Groups

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• I look like a hobo?" "Worse," he said. "Like a sad hobo clown." "And you like it?" "I love it." As soon as he said it, she broke into a smile. And when Eleanor smiled, something broke inside of him. Something always did.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Looks, You Like It, Broke

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Eleanor & Park”, p.163, Macmillan

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• As Global Warming raises temparatures, it takes longer to cool pies on window sills, and I wonder if this whole thing was caused by hobos.

  Dana Gould

  Pie, Global Warming, Wonder

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• I kind of like to look like a hobo.

  Kristen Stewart

  Looks, Kind

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• After an initial solo album in which the young [Bob] Dylan was just finding his voice (i.e., reinventing himself from the middle-class Robert Zimmerman into a pseudo-hobo Woody Guthrie), Dylan put out two acoustic albums that forever changed popular music.

  Jay Michaelson

  Class, Two, Voice

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• She was married for seven years to a concrete castle king. She said she wanted to learn to play the guitar and to hear her children sing. So I'd show up about once a week in my faded tight-legged jeans with a backlog full of hobo stories and dilapidated dreams.

  Harry Chapin

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Song: I Wanna Learn A Love Song

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• Work/Loaf Ratio”...I have spent fourteen years perfecting... I won't bore you with a long-winded explanation of the “W/LR” save to say that it is an algebraic formula of such complex numeric subtlety that it can be understood only by mathematicians and hobos.

  Gary Reilly

  Years, Bores You, Long

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• Rick Rubin had his hair - I don't think it's ever been cut and very - dresses like a hobo, usually - clean but . Was the kind of guy I really felt comfortable with, actually. I think I was more comfortable with him than I would have been with a producer with a suit on.

  Johnny Cash

  Cutting, Thinking, Hair

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I'm superstitious. Before I start a movie, I always kill a hobo with a hammer.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Hammers, Superstitious

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• [Joe] Biden countered. He was speaking at a summit for working families, and he said he had no stocks, no bonds, or a savings account. He then asked a Secret Service agent to hand him his hobo bindle, and he jumped a freight train back to D.C.

  Peter Sagal

  Hands, Secret, Saving

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• What's with the poverty Tourette's? Why do these two think we need a hobo for president?

  Jon Stewart

  Money, Thinking, Reality

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• You say the sweetest things. And that spaghetti perfume you're wearing is to die for. No hobo could resist." She snarled. Heh.

  Ilona Andrews

  Spaghetti, Perfume, Sweetest

  Ilona Andrews (2010). “Bayou Moon”, p.67, Penguin

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• Now, if I could get Mark to put down his phone and stop taking breaks, we’d be able to finish up before Oprah comes on.” – Bubba “Bubba, what are you going to do when they cancel her show?” – Caleb “Shut your mouth, boy. That’s sacrilege in this store. You talk like that, and I’ll toss you through the window like an old-timey hobo in a Western.” – Bubba

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Boys, Phones, Taking A Break

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