Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

'Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,' Mr Whittier says, 'It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.'

Chuck Palahniuk

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• Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Lost
  • Never
  • Idea

• It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Movie
  • Me
  • Growth

• We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Time
  • World
  • New Things

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• International friendlies, they mean something, but what you want is to play on the biggest stage, play under the lights.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Want
  • Play
  • Lights

• Fashion has a political role insofar as following it can give you the impression to belonging to a certain social group or a private club.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Political
  • Fashion
  • Group

• Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

  

  Ovid
  • Everything
  • Hour
  • Appointed

• My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Dad

• I've always been into dressing nicely. My dad's really into fashion, also. We'll always go out and buy stuff. He has his own style and I have my own style, but it's a shared thing. Same thing with my grandfather; he was really into his style, so it's just sort of been passed down, I think.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Dad
  • Fashion
  • Style

• It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • You
  • Film
  • Picture

• Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Work
  • Done
  • You

• The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Development

• We can't legislate human nature.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Human Nature

• The minimum wage can play a vital role in lifting hard-working families above the poverty line.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Play
  • Poverty
  • Lifting

• It is time for the world, the hemisphere and the region to make sure that relevant institutions of civil society and relevant laws are embedded in the mechanisms of governance.

  

  Baldwin Spencer
  • Time
  • World
  • Society

• We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Different
  • Kids
  • Help

• When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I relish every minute of that 2-3 hour session.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Game
  • Deserve

• Charter schools are public schools that operate, to a certain extent, outside the system. They have more control over their teachers, curriculum and resources. They also have less money than public schools.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Money
  • Control
  • System

• You can't trust a promise someone makes while they're drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.

  

  Joe Moore
  • Running
  • Trust
  • Promise

• What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.

  

  Jack Davenport
  • You
  • Like
  • Look

• In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.

  

  Gabrielle Carteris
  • World
  • American
  • True

• Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • House
  • Tree

• This is the first time in my experience... that I ever heard of a Senator trying to discredit his own Government before the world.... Your telegram is not only not true and an insolent approach to a situation that should have been worked out between man and man - but it shows conclusively that you are not even fit to have a hand in the operation of the Government of the United States.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Experience
  • Government
  • Senatory

• 'Telling a story is how we digest what happens to us,' Mr Whittier says, 'It's how we digest our lives. Our experiences.'

  

  Chuck Palahniuk