Chuck Palahniuk Quotes
'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76Chuck Palahniuk
Quotes to Explore
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
Orhan Pamuk -
If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
I doubt if you can have a truly wild party without liquor.
Carl Sandburg -
Every piece has its own identity which we develop by the rule 'We know no limits.' We follow the inspiration of the moment and don't worry if what we're playing is alternative, progressive or fusion rock.
Page McConnell -
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Basil Bunting -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear
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When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.
Washed Out -
Modesty is my best quality.
Jack Benny -
Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.
Patricia Hewitt -
Having two kids, I don't get out to see stand up much anymore.
Adam McKay
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
M. H. Abrams -
You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
Aaron Rodgers -
When I went to record my first album, which should have been a punk album, there was a synthesiser in the control room. I'd never seen one before but they let me have a go on it and I loved it to bits.
Gary Numan -
I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.
Sadie Frost -
No country in the world is going to recognize that Ariel and Maaleh Adumim and Beit El are a sovereign part of Israel.
Naftali Bennett -
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
Randy Travis
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When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Abraham Lincoln -
I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.
George Stults -
My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,- in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.
Charles Spurgeon -
I could never resist the call of the trail.
Buffalo Bill -
We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope. Falling into an interminable ennui.
Philip K. Dick -
'I used to think the secret to a happy ending was to bring down the curtain at the exact right time. A moment after happiness, then everything's all wrong again.' p76
Chuck Palahniuk