Based Dudes in Glasses

Mike Mentzer

“You can’t put a Mack truck tire on a Volkswagen. And you can’t put 19-inch arms on a 150-pound body.”

“It is while struggling against the heaviest weights a human body can move that the demand for courage is incessant.”

"You'll never know how good you might have become unless you try".

H.L. Mencken

“A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one. This is especially true in family life. A man makes sacrifices to his wife’s desires, not because he greatly enjoys giving up what he wants himself, but because he would enjoy it even less to see her cutting a sour face across the dinner table.”

“The man who invents a new imbecility is hailed gladly.”

On compromising artistic integrity for money and familial obligations:

“Show me 100 head of ordinary children who are worth one “Heart of Darkness,” and I’ll subside. As for “Lord Jim,” I would not swap it for all the brats born in Trenton, N.J., since the Spanish War.”

Charls Carroll

“You can’t fight fire with fire. These people are masters of fire.”

“Dinosaurs lived and died so we can drive cars for our whole lifetime.”

“I love my Macbook, but I also love my Macbook Pro.”

Patrick Bateman

“I have to return some videotapes.”