“I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
A collection of quotes on the topic of piss, doing, people, likeness.
“I am not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter
Other sources
Source: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall
Context: Bus stops are far more interesting and useful places to have art than in museums. Graffiti has more chance of meaning something or changing stuff than anything indoors. Graffiti has been used to start revolutions, stop wars, and generally is the voice of people who aren't listened to. Graffiti is one of those few tools you have if you have almost nothing. And even if you don't come up with a picture to cure world poverty you can make somebody smile while they're having a piss.
“If you are pissing people off, you know you are doing something right”
John Lydon book Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Source: Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Launch.com, November 2, 2000<!-- site no longer exists -->
John Green book The Fault in Our Stars
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
“It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.”
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
On FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, as quoted in The New York Times (31 October 1971).
1970s
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791) Austrian Romantic composer
Source: Letter to his sister (Milan, 26 January 1770), from Contradictory Quotations, Longman Group Ltd., 1983. Rendered as "as the sows piss" in Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, trans. Hans Mersmann, Dover Publications, 1972 (originally 1928)
“Remind me not to piss you off Red. You might aim for the heart and shoot me in the balls.”
Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer
Source: Morrigan's Cross
Stephen King Storm of the Century
Storm of the Century (1999)
Source: Storm of the Century: An Original Screenplay
“If you have one foot in yesterday and one foot in tomorrow, you're pissing all over today.”
Michael J. Fox (1961) Canadian-American actor
Source: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Future...: Twists and Turns and Lessons Learned
“I was so happy every morning when I woke up that I was pissing smiley faces.”
Nikki Sixx (1958) American musician
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
Launch.com, October 10, 1998<!-- site no longer exists -->
“We don't piss in your ashtrays,
So please don't throw cigarettes in our urinals.”
Kurt Vonnegut book God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
Eliot Rosewater's favorite poem, from the wall of the men's room at the Log Cabin Inn.
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1965)
George S. Patton (1885–1945) United States Army general
Remark to his nephew about his copious profanity, quoted in The Unknown Patton (1983) by Charles M. Province, p. 184
Context: When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag. … As for the types of comments I make, sometimes I just, By God, get carried away with my own eloquence.
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
I couldn't see that at the time--because towards the end of my time with Sabbath 20 years ago I thought what we were doing was boring and stupid, because we were boring and stupid, totally sick of what we were doing and totally out of our brains with drink or drugs when we were playing it.
Launch.com, November 2, 2000
Ozzy Osbourne (1948) English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter
I said, “As long as they’re laughing, it doesn’t matter.”
“Ozzy Osbourne: The Rolling Stone Interview”, (July 25, 2002)
“Shane looked…pale. Pale and shaken and—how predictable was this?—pissed.”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
“Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.”
Stephen King book 'Salem's Lot
Source: 'Salem's Lot
“Now," Graves finally said, "anyone else want to piss me off? Anyone else think this is a goddamn?”
Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: Betrayals
Christopher Moore (1957) American writer of comic fantasy
Source: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror
Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer
Source: Firefly Lane
Charles Bukowski book Women
Variant: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women
“You piss me off you Salmon… You're too expensive in restaurants.”
Eddie Izzard (1962) British stand-up comedian, actor and writer
“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.”
Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author
Variant: ... one of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off.
Source: The Callahan Touch
“Old enough to know better, pissed enough not to care. (Jaden)”
Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist
Source: Bad Moon Rising
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Sugar Daddy
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
Source: On Leadership
Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie
Variant: I’m trying to make some sense out of the phrase “Everything happens for a reason,” and I think I’ve figured out what the reason is—to piss me off.
Source: Love, Rosie
“Bonzo, he pre-cise. He so careful, he piss on a plate and never splash.”
Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game
Source: Ender's Game
Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer
Source: The Pill vs. the Springhill Mine Disaster
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Bleeds
“Maybe that's what love is, I thought: it's being pissed off.”
Margaret Atwood book The Year of the Flood
Source: The Year of the Flood
Lilith Saintcrow (1976) American writer
Source: Betrayals
“where some god pissed a rain of
reason to make things grow
only to die”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Molly Ivins (1944–2007) American journalist
“I decided not to answer on the grounds that I might piss someone off.”
Laurell K. Hamilton book The Laughing Corpse
Source: The Laughing Corpse
“The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.”
Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist
Source: The Beast God Forgot to Invent
Kresley Cole American writer
Source: Dark Needs at Night's Edge
“Vodka Redbull: Upper meets downer in an effervescent hybrid of bubble gum and junkie piss”
Diablo Cody book Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
Source: Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper
“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”
Steven Erikson book Gardens of the Moon
Source: Gardens of the Moon
“I am a vampire," I say softly. "And you have pissed me off.”
Christopher Pike book The Last Vampire
Source: The Last Vampire
“It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off”
Eric Bogosian (1953) actor, playwright, monologist, novelist
Source: subUrbia
“You just don't want a vampire pissed off at you.”
Charlaine Harris book Dead as a Doornail
Source: Dead as a Doornail
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Luke and Clary, pg. 325
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
Margaret Cho (1968) American stand-up comedian
Oh my God! What did you do?! Suddenly I felt like I was running around like this tyrant, all drunk with power- "Nobody can call me fat on this set!"
From Her Tours and CDs, Drunk With Power CD
Maddox (1978) American internet writer
If these words were people, I would embrace their genocide http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=banish. <br class="br">The Best Page in the Universe
“Always needing to have the last word is a bad trait Ms. Blake, pisses people off.”
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
Titus to Anita
Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, The Lunatic Cafe (1996)