Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

'Every apostle or disciple,' Mrs. Clarke says, 'as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.'

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• For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Tax
  • Benefit

• I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Heaven
  • Dog
  • Walking

• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• All I wanted to do was be a working actor.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • Actor
  • Working
  • Wanted

• I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.

  

  Jack Kelley
  • Never
  • Anything
  • Fabricated

• I am a free man. I don't need to earn money. But I need to love what I do.

  

  Fabrice Luchini
  • Money
  • Man
  • Free

• A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.

  

  Han Fei
  • Father
  • Son
  • Ruler

• I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Up
  • Star
  • Theatre

• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Value
  • Like
  • Simplicity

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Feel
  • Matter

• As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Stories

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Orphanage

• A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Movie
  • Fear
  • Know

• Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Nature
  • Spiritual
  • Aesthetic

• Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Business
  • Management
  • Productivity

• Always remember: the alleviation of poverty is never a political or economic issue - it is moral.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Remember
  • Political
  • Moral

• If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.

  

  Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.

  

  Alexander Chee
  • Live
  • Trying
  • Running

• The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man would have to be someone I'd like to have dinner with.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Long
  • Character
  • Book

• And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Time
  • Age
  • Bored

• 'Every apostle or disciple,' Mrs. Clarke says, 'as much as their running to follow they're savior-they're running just as hard to escape something else.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Running