“This is the guy I'll be thinking about when I put a gun to My head.”
On an elderly man in the front row who had fallen asleep.
A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me
Variant: No, I say, it's fine.
Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.
Just great, I say. Really.
Source: Fight Club
“This is the guy I'll be thinking about when I put a gun to My head.”
On an elderly man in the front row who had fallen asleep.
A Big, Steaming Pile Of Me
“I told my brain., said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor
The Modern Prince and other Writings, quoting a letter to his sister
Robert Barry (1980) in: Alexander Alberro (2003). Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity. Alberro noted: "Barry has since discussed the way in which this painting accented the structural support..."
“Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall.”
Sec. 56
The Gay Science (1882)
“I would not put a thief in my mouth to steal my brains.”
Source: True Grit (1968), Chapter 3, p. 59 : 'Mattie Ross,' refusing 'Rooster Cogburn's' offer of a drink of whiskey
The original quote attributed to Picasso in 1951 quotes him as saying that 'even if he were imprisoned, he would draw on the dust-covered prison walls and on the floor, with his fingers dripped in his own spit' (see above). This expansion appears to derive from an interview given by actor Dustin Hoffman to the L.A. Times in 2001.
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/mar/04/entertainment/ca-32985
Disputed