Best 107 quotes in «hipster quotes» category

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.

I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

Is the labyrinth living or dying?

It is not my fault that my parents own the world's largest collection of black Santas.

It feels like a perfect night, to dress up like hipsters, and make fun of our exes.

I sued American Apparel because they calculatingly took my name, my likeness and image and used them publicly to promote their business.

I try to live life so that I can live with myself.

it's gonna hurt because it matters.

Kids today are sold so much, by corporations and media and commercials and advertising and music videos, that I do. A lot of times, they retain that stuff and wear it, and that's the concept of a hipster. It's about owning it and redefining it, on your own level. It's a way of retaining control and meaning, in a world where you're being told to think in a certain way.

I understand why a lot of women want to dress hipster. But I grew up sneaking my mom's Victoria's Secrets...so I could look at the hot chicks!

I've been meaning to write about the Rolling Stones, but I am the furthest thing from a hipster rock journalist.

I've never been into alternative, hipster rap music.

Kids on the Youtube, learning how to be cool.

It turns out that, somehow, there are a tremendous number of things to be optimistic about.

I've always found that word ["hipster"] is used with such disdain, like it's always used by chubby bloggers who aren't getting laid anymore and are bored, and they're just so mad at these young kids for going out and getting wasted and having fun and being fashionable.

I want a guy who is masculine, good with his hands, and able to build stuff and who has survival skills. Facial hair is a big turn-on... I like a stronger, more physically imposing man - like a lumberjack.

I want to say that what is cool about writing self-aware first person narrative is that the awareness is not necessarily the same awareness of the reader. I have a story coming out in the Paris Review and it's about a hipster. He think's he's self-aware, he's very introspective and analytical, but when you're reading it you can totally see through his self-analysis because you have a higher awareness than he does. I like playing with that too.

I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

Literature + Illness = Illness

Leave it up to hipster nerds to pretend to hate something that they actually want

Love is just a shout in the void.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Nashville has always felt perfect. I don't think Third Man Records could exist in any other town that I know of in America. Anything smaller or larger than the size of Nashville, and also the music - the attention that's paid to music in that town is sort of the right kind. It's not too hipster and it's not too fake; it's something in the middle, which is really good ground for a place like Third Man Records, that aims to be genre-less. It's great to be able to have that kind of access.

My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord Buckley and jazz and stuff. He was a hipster. My parents were kind of beatnik-y, you know, for Salt Lake City. But my humor, I think, came from wanting to disarm people before they hit me.

My father actually went to college, and my mother went to nursing school, so, you know. I wouldn't... They were actually too square and right-wing to be hip, too well-educated to be white trash, too sexy to be square. They really didn't fit any mold. They weren't really hipsters. They were just - they were two of a kind, those two.

My theory is that the only people who hate hipsters are hipsters. Where I come from my friends and family don't even know what they are. The only people that talk about hipsters are hipsters.

My thoughts are starts I can't fathom into constellations.

Rather be dead than cool.

Our fearlessness shall be our secret weapon.

Nothing has ever looked like that ever in all of human history.

Something invisible snapped inside her.

So I let her go, too. And I'm sorry.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

The pride of the hipster food movement is sort of annoying, but it fascinates me.

Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war

The 'Hipster Nerds' like stuff because they hate it. It's like they ironically like it.

The most interesting hipsters are ones who stop being hipsters.

The world is not a wish-granting factory.

The visionary is the only realist.

There's no ironic appreciation of things we love, even of things that are in fact ridiculous, which a hipster might take and own and show the world the humor in it.

The ukulele totally fits that whole hipster community or whatever you want to call it, but then at the same time it works great in nursing homes where senior citizens get together and play, and then as the traditional Hawaiian instrument with people doing the Hula and strumming the ukulele and singing.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind of 'standard'.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

Tonight, darling, we are going to right a lot of wrongs.

Typography is what language looks like.

Well, it's sort of funny to try and get that balance between just accepting the reality of my friend [co-star Satya Bhabha] flying in from the ceiling of the theatre and like starting to do a dance with demon hipster chicks. It's like, so how do we react when he throws fireballs? Are we surprised? Does this happen a lot?

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

We have a strategic plan. It's called 'doing things'.

We think that we are invincible because we are.