Chuck Klosterman Quotes

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

Chuck Klosterman

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• I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Feeling
  • Beauty
  • Bird

• I get great pleasure from stuffed foods, from an apple strudel to a vegetable samosa, from a whole roasted bird with a sweet and savoury stuffing to a vine leaf filled with rice and spices.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Free
  • Freedom

• Look at guys like Larry Bird and George Brett and John McEnroe; that's what they did in their careers. They all wanted to be the guy under the microscope late in the game or late in the match. So you just take on that know-how that that's part of your responsibility, and you learn that's what makes it exciting. That's what makes it fun!

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Fun
  • Guy
  • Game

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • She
  • Same
  • Bird

• I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Small
  • Sorry
  • Bird

• All of us in society are supposed to believe that cruelty to animals is wrong and that it is a good thing to prevent needless suffering. So if that is true, how can meat be acceptable under any but the most extraordinary circumstances, such as perhaps roasting the bird who died flying into a window?

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Good
  • Believe
  • True

• My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Great
  • Mother
  • High

• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • May
  • Bad
  • Change

• The thing about owls is that they do sort of have this facial disc, which is unlike any other bird. They kind of have a face, more than like a dog or a giraffe. They have this weird, alien face that you can actually make expressive.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Weird
  • Dog
  • Bird

• Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Bird

• I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Like
  • Idea
  • Bird

• I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Military
  • Bird
  • Colors

• Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

  

  W. E. B. Griffin
  • World
  • Best
  • Bird

• I found myself in the doldrums in the early Nineties. I was too old to play the dolly bird any longer and I looked too young to play a woman of my real age. No one ever saw me as the aunt, mother or grandmother.

  

  Barbara Windsor
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Age

• The girl's mouth was chapped, tight and pinched, her skin dry. Mama would say she looked woebegone, but as Bird looked at her eyes, the word she thought of was desperate.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Girl
  • Eyes

• But what gave him the most satisfaction was going back through the pages to read about his first story appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. That afternoon he'd bought Bird the largest bag of lemon drops he could find. 'He gives her candy,' she had said, remembering too.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • She
  • Bird
  • Saturday

• If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Experience
  • Dream
  • Sleep

• It was okay for Wayne Gretzky's dad, for instance, to give him a hockey stick, or Joe Montana's dad to give him a football, or Larry Bird's dad to give him a basketball, but it wasn't okay for Gloria Connors to give her son a tennis racquet.

  

  Jimmy Connors
  • Dad
  • Football
  • Son

• If I could come back as anything - I'd be a bird, first, but definitely the command key is my second choice.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Choices
  • Firsts
  • Bird

• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Live
  • Evil
  • Democracy

• I have a big life, a small child, I work, I do a lot of things, so I'm often playing catch-up with what's current.

  

  Lorraine Toussaint
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• Statistically after six months, if an Indigenous or non-Indigenous person has come off welfare, even long-term welfare, and has stuck in that's job for six months, then they've really broken in their own psychology the welfare reliance mentality. They're up on their own two feet.

  

  Andrew Forrest
  • Up
  • Long
  • Job

• I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Bird
  • Epidemics
  • Alarmist