Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.

Chuck Palahniuk

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Job

• The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Find
  • Ignorance
  • News

• I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Vision
  • Talk
  • Forward

• Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Look
  • Fans

• Tennis is all about mental toughness, and you have to keep your head in the game. I make time to relax away from competition pressures, travel and intense training schedules to make sure I'm looking after myself. Taking time out with family and friends helps to maintain the work-life balance everyone needs.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Thought
  • Office
  • Box

• And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Success
  • Myself

• For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Long
  • Live
  • Experience

• It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • Speak
  • Actor
  • Rare

• In Swat, there are two jobs a woman's going to do: a teacher or a doctor. If not, then become a housewife.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Woman
  • Teacher
  • Doctor

• What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • History
  • Future
  • Past

• Children refuse to compromise. Adults learn how.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Children
  • Learn
  • Compromise

• I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Think
  • Sexy
  • London

• Every vote should carry a serial number, so that responsibility for harmful or careless use of the vote can be traced. Concealed voting should be outlawed.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Responsibility
  • Vote
  • Voting

• The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Important
  • Risk
  • Gun

• At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Risk
  • Year

• It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Action
  • Like
  • Someone

• Historically, Vietnam movies have been profitable. All of them. 'Platoon,' 'Full Metal Jacket,' 'Apocalypse Now,' 'The Deer Hunter.' You're looking at movies that have been not pretty successful, but very successful. The foreign numbers have been extraordinary.

  

  Dawn Steel
  • Pretty

• There's a fine line between physical and thug ball, and the Knicks have crossed the line on occasion.

  

  Marv Albert
  • Thug

• I think that's, it's my way of writing, it's my, it's part of you know for lack of a better word, God-given talent that I have that I'm really good at that kind of dialogue.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Good
  • God
  • Thinking

• A common currency imposes on us a duty to cooperate more on policy.

  

  Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder
  • Policy
  • Currency
  • Cooperate

• Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Drama
  • Surgery
  • Costume

• We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • Drama
  • Devil