Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

Chuck Palahniuk

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• I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Create

• I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Interesting
  • Car
  • Design

• But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Wisdom
  • Liberty

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• Most cities have a centre surrounded by suburbs, but London has numerous centres: it's the model of a twenty-first century metropolis.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Model
  • London
  • Suburbs

• I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Good
  • Work
  • Writing

• I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Enjoy
  • Lived

• I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Me
  • Like
  • Idea

• Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

  

  Hal Lindsey
  • World
  • Stop
  • See

• Fashion has a long interest in collaborative situations.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Long
  • Fashion
  • Interest

• I love coming to Detroit. First getting to be buddies with Kid Rock in the beginning, and him being really great to us, showing us love, the love of the city. I feel like it's our city now, too.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • City
  • Like

• Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Different
  • Woman
  • Things

• It's important to see how people see your work and how they feel about it. I know a lot of directors who are like, 'I never read reviews,' and I'm like, 'Yeah I can tell.'

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Important

• I think it's our job to create a culture and an environment where a gay player knows he is safe and welcome. If and when that happens, believe me - that person will have the full support of the commissioner's office.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Culture

• Holiday binge-buying has deep roots in American culture: department stores have been associating turkey gluttony with its spending equivalent since they began sponsoring Thanksgiving Day parades in the early 20th century.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • American
  • Culture
  • Day

• I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Time
  • Enjoy

• The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has this wonderful program where they take in the youth, feed them, help them learn how to cook, clean, they help them get jobs, help them learn how to save their money, and they have shelters all over the city.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Money
  • Help
  • City

• I know no study that will take you nearer the way to happiness than the study of nature - and I include in the study of nature not only things and their forces, but also mankind and their ways, and the moulding of the affections and the will into an earnest desire not only to be happy, but to create happiness.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Nature
  • Desire
  • Study

• Unless we abandon elements which resemble a police state, we can't meet the demands of being a modern society.

  

  Ahmet Necdet Sezer
  • Police
  • Modern
  • Abandon

• I have been very afraid of writing about other cultures and countries. I've been worried about getting the research wrong. I ask a lot of questions. I try to visit the area. If I'm not able to do that, I search out people from that country who live elsewhere and ask questions.

  

  Uwem Akpan
  • People
  • Writing
  • Live

• When I was a kid, my parents were always like, 'Money doesn't buy happiness.' I thought, 'You just didn't make enough money.' I had to go find it out for myself.

  

  Mike Posner
  • Money
  • Parents

• Everything is funnier in retrospect, funnier and prettier and cooler. You can laugh at anything from far enough away.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk