Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'

Chuck Palahniuk

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• For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.

  

  Patricia Briggs
  • World
  • Real
  • Reading

• I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Real
  • Relationship

• Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Man

• Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Garden
  • Apple

• Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• I believe in something that maybe can be defined as the God in one's heart, in the heart of every human being, but not in a God who sits on high looking down on us and taking care of us and whom we bother with things trivial and weighty so that he will be good to us and arrange things for us here.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Good
  • God
  • Believe

• The truth is that just as the 'West' is not a homogenous entity with one view on foreign and domestic policy, nor are Muslims.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Truth
  • View
  • Truth Is

• What more can you ask for than to see a ballgame in spring?

  

  Hal Newhouser
  • You
  • See
  • Spring

• Music is a language.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Language

• I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Different
  • American
  • Community

• I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Just

• As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn't fit in with family life, there's more flexibility.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Work
  • Family

• I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'

  

  Warren Spector
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Story

• The only successor to President Putin is President Putin himself and we could of course dream about President Putin stepping down voluntarily and picking out successor which would be probably as bad as him.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Bad
  • Dream
  • Down

• My whole deal is I want to have a principle-based, member-driven caucus.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Want
  • Deal
  • Caucus

• What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Own

• Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

  

  James Hillman
  • Up
  • Different
  • Women

• Angolans who repatriate overseas funds and invest in the economy, companies that generate goods, services, and jobs won't be harassed. No questions will be asked about why their money was abroad, and they won't face legal prosecution.

  

  Joao Lourenco
  • Money
  • Why

• Like the Cubists before them, the abstractionists felt a beautiful thing in perceiving how the medium can, of its own accord, carry one into the unknown, that is to the discovery of new structures. What an inspiration the medium is..

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Inspiration
  • Accord
  • Perceiving

• I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.

  

  Mike Piazza
  • Trying
  • Prove
  • Approval

• Covering a historic event is perfectly legitimate. It's not sneaking into somebody's boudoir... These people belong to history, and not to record that if you have the opportunity would be wrong.

  Elliott Erwitt
  • People
  • History
  • Opportunity

• As a fundraiser, our first idea was 'Five Bucks to Punch a Mime.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk