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DAN CHAON From Glasgow to Sydney and back again sooner or later the earth will turn from point A to point B an...
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MATT GITEAU They go all out and they don't take small steps. They try to do quick-fixes, but the best thing to d...
AMANDA ARNOLD It is going to be 10 or 12 years later.
FRANK MARSHALL I wrote my first book at eight, all of four pages. At 10, I did a 40-page story. At 12, I wrote two ...
CAITLIN MORAN He'll get 25, 26 or 27 points and you'd walk out swearing he got 12. He's not flashy, but he gets th...
STEVE HAWKINS Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader.
JACKIE JOYNER-KERSEE I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
JACK PRELUTSKY I got a horse when I was eight or 10 years old. And dad used to take me to the rodeo back home. I go...
SAM HUNT We were able to weather the storm and stretch it out to 10 or 12 points.
DICK FRANTI When we got down 10 or 12, I knew we were in trouble.
DOUG BAGGETT I've taught a number of runners to go down it quickly and efficiently. We'll do up to eight or 10 re...
JOE PRUSAITIS It's not unusual to hold foods in there for 10 to 12 hours. It's a moist heat, so things aren't goin...
JIM GAVIN But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 year...
VINCE GILL It's going to be very small ? about 10 or 12 pieces line.
JAY KAY I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE The only thing we can go by is sales and that increases 10 to 12 percent every year.
MACK BRADLEY 90/10 Rule: 10% of your activities bring you joy. Spend 90% of your time doing them.
LORRIN L. LEE The only thing they have got is about eight or 10 people in positions of power and influence who are...
PAT BUCHANAN We went about 10 or 12 miles the last time. Before that, the most he's done is about four.
CARLA KELLY You didn't know whether Chuck Berry was black or white - it was not a concern.
KEITH RICHARDS We've left him eight or 10 messages. He hasn't called us back once.
FRANK BORGIA I have used babysitters from ages 12 to their mid 30s. Usually, if I have a younger sitter, it is fo...
LEAH CROWLEY It will probably add $8-10 million to the lifetime gross of the picture. We'll be close to $5 millio...
WAYNE LEWELLEN It will probably add $8-10 million to the lifetime gross of the picture, ... We'll be close to $5 mi...
WAYNE LEWELLEN The biggest thing is we were in so many close games. We lost 9 or 10 games where we were in the game...
BRIAN MILLS One of the big keys in the first half was our inability to take care of the ball. They hit 6 of 10 [...
BOBBY JONES My thing was, ’Everybody just relax,’ ... The game was never out of reach. When things were goin...
JEFF FAINE My thing was, Everybody just relax, ... The game was never out of reach. When things were going ...
JEFF FAINE I like a drink, mate. I'll have maybe 10 or 12 pints on a good night out.
ERIC BRISTOW We are on the bubble. Unfortunately, now we're in this position where let's say there's six, seven, ...
ANDY KENNEDY Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.
GLORIA STEINEM More than 3 million square miles of territory to protect, 10 thousand miles of border to guard and a...
GEN BEN CHIDLAW We got a personal best - beating last year's time by about eight or 10 hours.
DAVID KENT Maybe 10 or 12 popular artists have been introduced into popular music since the show's debut, and i...
BARRY JECKELL After the first one, it wasn't too bad, ... It took a long time to get that first one. After three w...
TONY DUNGY By the time I was 10 or 12, I had discovered the lure of the romance genre - and the dusty copy of &...
SARAH MACLEAN We all understand the economics of the Super Bowl - 10 or 12 minutes of the ball in motion will be s...
GEORGE VECSEY It takes 10 to 12 parts of chlorine to take out one part of ammonia.
GAYLE SITZMANN We just weren't good on third and long, ... The down that should be the easiest to be good on was th...
JAY JOHNSON We just weren't good on third and long. The down that should be the easiest to be good on was the do...
JAY HOPSON but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of...
ROBIN WILLIAMS We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. W...
BARNEY ROSS I love to go to the studio and stay there 10 or 12 hours a day. I love it. What is it? I don't k...
JOHNNY CASH Even if they get down 10 or 12 points, the way they hit the boards they're still in the game.
JOE MACRI The animals of the world exist
for their own reasons. They were
not made for humans any more
than...
ALICE WALKER The 10 or 20 minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic; there is no adventure I would hav...
ARIEL LEVY Any time a running back reaches the age of 31 or 32, he has to lose a step. No one is a freak of nat...
AL MICHAELS There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
CARL SANDBURG Most people don't focus on the first 10 percent or 80 percent, but rather the last 10 percent that d...
BILL CORDES We tell them they're not therapy, but if you get eight, 10, 12 people together, they can help one an...
JAMES LAFFERTY It will allow for a more organized understanding of the assets and liabilities of the community now ...
JACK SHANNON They were here all day. As soon as I woke up, I saw eight or 10 police cars out there and they had t...
JENNIFER CAMPBELL Most guys fight three or four times a year, tops. I'll fight 20 to 30 times a year. All my fights ar...
ERIC ESCH In that time, there could be another 10 or 12 accidents. It could mean someone getting killed.
BOB KANNER I was in Milan, and somebody gave me a Trussardi diary, and I thought 'Genius.' Inside I put...
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ERIC SMALL I had 37 lions and tigers, two chimpanzees, 10 or 12 baboons, a hundred big-horn rams, probably a hu...
JEFFREY SHARON I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also, I would like not to be picked apart o...
SIA We need everyone to continue working hard on both the offensive and defensive ends so we can be eigh...
DAVE BOSSO I think what they do is they want something that's impenetrable for eight or 10 feet, then you do th...
TERRY DILL About four or five years and 10 or 20 pounds ago I could probably show these young guys a thing or t...
DAIMON SHELTON The South was just black and white (people) 10 or 15 years ago. Latinos are just getting past the is...
DAVID LUBELL We've been down 10 or 12 points before. The girls realize there are four quarters in a game, and you...
BILL WOLF Have you ever gotten the feeling that you aren't completely embarassed yet, but you glimpse tomorrow...
TOM CRUISE [Etc.: Jarrett, who has led only two laps this season, has finished 14th or worse in his last eight ...
DALE JARRETT We've got a handful of guys. We've got as many as eight or 10 that have a legitimate chance [at the ...
GREG ROY But I know that the vote of 9 out of 10 black Americans for the Democratic Party or for leftist kind...
CLARENCE THOMAS I'd take 10 of him. He's a warrior. He's just a guy who's going to win you a lot of games. You look ...
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J. AUGUST RICHARDS My junior year was the first year in like 10 or 12 years that we had a record over .500. Then my sen...
KARALYN DEHN Mama said there'd be days like this, huh? If we play 10 games like that, I think we'll win eight or ...
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JERRY POURNELLE I think it's the volunteers and the town is friendly. Another thing is that the tennis courts are al...
BILL PROVO Knowing how Tech likes to finish with a flurry, getting up 10 or 11 is a pretty smart thing to do.
BLAINE TAYLOR The old joke is the index has predicted 12 of the past 10 recessions.
JOHN CROSBY I’ve tried so hard to stay away from you,” he whispered one night, cuddling her while the moonli...
LISA KLEYPAS We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12...
EVERETT DIRKSEN We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12...
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CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN On a scale of 1 to 10, I was a 12,
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BILL HERRION We'll accept applications through Feb. 10, or until the class of 15 fills up, whichever comes first.
DR. ENRIQUE PEREZ I was very happy with the last three days of it. The first 10 or 12 days, he was sluggish. He missed...
JON GRUDEN The first thing we ask is if they need any hotel rooms -- if it's 10 or more rooms, there are better...
KATHRYN HORTON The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.
ROBBIE ROBERTSON In the last 10 or 12 years, we've only had one other student struck. So it's not a regular occurrenc...
ANN MOORE Leon is really a highly competitive person. When he was struggling shooting free throws earlier in t...
BEN BRAUN The first thing I do every morning is go online to check the surf. If the waves are good, I'll go su...
MARISA MILLER If a device would save in time 10% or bring about results worth 10% then its absence is worth 10%.
HENRY FORD I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ...
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Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you.
CHUCK CLOSE A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it...
CHUCK CLOSE I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th...
CHUCK CLOSE Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
CHUCK CLOSE I don't care about the Guggenheim. The Guggenheim isn't involved in anything that I am inter...
CHUCK CLOSE You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting i...
CHUCK CLOSE Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process t...
CHUCK CLOSE There are so many artists that are dyslexic or learning disabled, it's just phenomenal. There...
CHUCK CLOSE I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled...
CHUCK CLOSE Of course there are all the negative reviews, which also are incredibly important. Hilton Kramer hat...
CHUCK CLOSE I have no intention of flattering people. I like wrinkles and crow's feet and flaws, and somebod...
CHUCK CLOSE I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have fac...
CHUCK CLOSE There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist ...
CHUCK CLOSE A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It'...
CHUCK CLOSE Very few people have written about what a work really looks like, especially once there were photogr...
CHUCK CLOSE My mother was a piano teacher, my father an inventor. He invented the reflective paint they still us...
CHUCK CLOSE I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
CHUCK CLOSE Europe often seems sort of overly concerned with the weight of history and stuff. We don't have much...
CHUCK CLOSE I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, a...
CHUCK CLOSE I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant.
CHUCK CLOSE It doesn't upset artists to find out that artists used lenses or mirrors or other aids, but it c...
CHUCK CLOSE Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not lia...
CHUCK CLOSE The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait aroun...
CHUCK CLOSE There's a kind of prevailing sensibility in any given moment in time, so sometimes the art world gra...
CHUCK CLOSE All the fingerprint paintings are done without a grid.
CHUCK CLOSE The city continues to be a magnet for the best and the brightest that come here from all over the co...
CHUCK CLOSE Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work.
CHUCK CLOSE Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another pe...
CHUCK CLOSE I love what used to be called women's work. When women make quilts or something like that, it was so...
CHUCK CLOSE At the same time that I'm finding the color world I want, I'm also trying to make the imagery, you k...
CHUCK CLOSE I've said it's a little bit like a magician performing for a convention of magicians... all the magi...
CHUCK CLOSE I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled...
CHUCK CLOSE I tried to, with a series of self-imposed limitations, back myself into my own personal corner where...
CHUCK CLOSE When critics begin to identify something that they see as a tendency, they tend to write about what ...
CHUCK CLOSE I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. Yo...
CHUCK CLOSE I always thought that one of the reasons why a painter likes especially to have other painters look ...
CHUCK CLOSE I don't do commissioned portraits and I don't paint college presidents. I can't imagine what kind of...
CHUCK CLOSE You know, the way art history is taught, often there's nothing that tells you why the painting is gr...
CHUCK CLOSE Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to...
CHUCK CLOSE Women in general interest me. I like how women are more liable to talk about real things, personal t...
CHUCK CLOSE I knew from the age of five what I wanted to do. The one thing I could do was draw. I couldn't d...
CHUCK CLOSE I don't want the viewer to be able to peel away the layers of my painting like the layers of an ...
CHUCK CLOSE You don't have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today you will do what you did yesterday, and to...
CHUCK CLOSE I'm very interested in how we read things, especially the link between seeing two-dimensional an...
CHUCK CLOSE I discovered about 150 dots is the minimum number of dots to make a specific recognizable person. Yo...
CHUCK CLOSE In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests...
CHUCK CLOSE Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where...
CHUCK CLOSE Bunny boiler is now part of our language, and I'm proud of that.
GLENN CLOSE I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.
GLENN CLOSE It always amazes me to think that every house on every street is full of so many stories; so many tr...
GLENN CLOSE The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's ...
DEL CLOSE I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, th...
ERIC CLOSE There's something about a catharsis that is very important.
GLENN CLOSE The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a mome...
DEL CLOSE You never want to be the first one of your friends to get married. If you are, just resign yourself ...
JENNIFER CLOSE We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by ...
GLENN CLOSE I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.
GLENN CLOSE I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcem...
GLENN CLOSE I'm always trying to look for different roles.
ERIC CLOSE Acting, to me, is about the incredible adventure of examining the landscape of human heart and soul....
GLENN CLOSE We knew coming in that one of the keys would be pressure. I just took that to the fullest.
MANDY CLOSE I'm surprised he doesn't get more recognition nationwide. He's a much better 3-point shooter than he...
GARY CLOSE I'm sure the FBI and CIA must be mortified by this because it is extremely embarrassing to them.
RAY CLOSE [On Thursday night, Close will be presented with the Human Spirit Award by the Christopher Reeve Par...
GLENN CLOSE The best thing I have is the knife from Fatal Attraction. I hung it in my kitchen. It's my way of sa...
GLENN CLOSE It's fairly likely something will be worked out. We still have to iron out some things.
CASEY CLOSE Mr. Lawrence drank from his beer. Do you know how I figure out what to do? I look under rocks for sl...
CHARLIE CLOSE The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytel...
ERIC CLOSE What's really exciting about this is that we found the brown dwarf around one of the 25 stellar syst...
LAIRD CLOSE That's a convenient explanation, but it doesn't satisfy me. Incompetence I have not seen in those ag...
RAY CLOSE It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I...
GLENN CLOSE As an actor, I go where the good writing is. That's the bottom line.
GLENN CLOSE in no way, holds you responsible for what happened to Troy.
GLENN CLOSE Celebrity is death - celebrity - that's the worst thing that can happen to an actor.
GLENN CLOSE There are a lot of big spec houses now all across Connecticut, a lot of ostentatious showing of weal...
GLENN CLOSE It was the continuing convergence of entertainment and sports.
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JENNIFER CLOSE We have not been created out of nothing, but from primeval "ur-matter," atoms formed billions of yea...
FRANK CLOSE Autonomous robots alone will be unable to realize those scientific goals in the foreseeable future,
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FRANK CLOSE If you would have told me we were going to score 75 points, I figured we would have had a pretty goo...
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GARY CLOSE They're healthy, they're focused and they're back playing the way they were playing earlier in the s...
GARY CLOSE He has great hands and I think his defense helps him in the sense that they force a lot of bad shots...
GARY CLOSE Quick hands. He'll take the thing away from you if you aren't protecting the ball. He'll jump passin...
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GARY CLOSE The past two games were battles, so we have to be ready to go to battle (again). We'll prepare this ...
MANDY CLOSE I love getting assists. There's no better way to win tonight than distribute the ball and get everyo...
MANDY CLOSE You step up and drain it. You can't be worrying about the shots you've missed before. That was my me...
MANDY CLOSE It's a great feeling right now. I can't even explain it.
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LAIRD CLOSE This is really very much in our neighborhood of the galaxy.
LAIRD CLOSE Meridian International Center seeks to educate people of all ages about global issues, connect profe...
JUDITH CLOSE The exotic new show features 60 rich and diverse works by 14 artists ranging in age from their early...
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ERIC CLOSE I just feel that God gave me a certain gift, and that was to go out, do storytelling and be an actor...
ERIC CLOSE The two most important words in marriage for me are 'yes, dear.'
ERIC CLOSE A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.
ERIC CLOSE I was a wild kid in high school. I liked to get crazy and be rebellious and go to parties and do all...
ERIC CLOSE I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.
ERIC CLOSE I told my parents, 'You've taken care of me all my life, helped me through college. You'...
ERIC CLOSE If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy m...
ERIC CLOSE I've always been a big fan of Nashville, and I have friends that live there.
ERIC CLOSE We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.
SANDY CLOSE Rock's so good to me. Rock is my child and my grandfather.
CHUCK BERRY I believe that the Laws of Karma do not apply to show business, where good things happen to bad peop...
CHUCK LORRE If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, ...
CHUCK YEAGER You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The bright future is that readers are accepting more varied forms of stories.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' '...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best thing about getting a flu shot is that you never again need to wash your hands. That's ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My private history in terms of people in my life who are dead is very easy to discuss. I don't f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens jus...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My goal is to create a metaphor that changes our reality by charming people into considering their w...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Portland in particular is a cheap enough place to live that you can still develop your passion - pai...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scare...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a...
CHUCK HAGEL The final line in the Second Amendment says, 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shal...
CHUCK NORRIS Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need ...
CHUCK D Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our foreign policy needs to support our energy, economic, defense and domestic policies. It all fall...
CHUCK HAGEL The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it, beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The Midwest is a musical melting pot and the source and birthplace of several musical genres.
CHUCK INGLISH I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES What was Bruce Lee like? How did you meet? What was it like to choreograph the fight scene in Rome w...
CHUCK NORRIS I worked on a farm. Played ball and loafed along the fishing and swimming holes of the White River, ...
CHUCK KLEIN If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or aware...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A film has to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's the bullies who are afraid, are the ones that do all the fighting. It's not the secure ...
CHUCK NORRIS I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapo...
CHUCK SCHUMER California club pop chirper Dev's debut is as stark as it is sweet. This is owed partly to the c...
CHUCK EDDY Acceptance speeches can make or break presidential candidacies. It was Al Gore's 2000 acceptance...
CHUCK TODD I'm a can-do conservative, and I just love the job, and I think I'm going to get re-elected.
CHUCK FLEISCHMANN Government and culture are two diametrically opposed forces - the one blinds and oppresses, the othe...
CHUCK D Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.
CHUCK NORRIS Every day, we are bombarded with a multitude of toxins in the environment. We know that the negative...
CHUCK NORRIS I was raised as a Catholic, but I got up to go to church because I thought I'd be hit by a bolt ...
CHUCK FEENEY My grandfather was hit over the head by a crane boom in Seattle. Some of the family claimed he was n...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable....
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basi...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book wr...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Movie brawls tend to be bloodless and quick.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Helplessness is such a rotten feeling. There's nothing you can do about it. Being helpless is like b...
CHUCK BARRIS Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can't deal with the flood in the orchards until we cap the floodwaters coming into them. And ...
CHUCK NORRIS Of course voting is useful. But then again, I don't put a big glow to it. Voting is about as ess...
CHUCK D In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mista...
CHUCK SCHUMER Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a...
CHUCK MANGIONE You decide your own level of involvement.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolis...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Everyone knows that the Internet is changing our lives, mostly because someone in the media has utte...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The most boring thing in the entire world is nudity. The second most boring thing is honesty.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in a...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run f...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can only hold a smile for so long, after that it's just teeth.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What makes earth feel like hell is our expectation that it should feel like heaven.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of yo...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would al...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN For years now, I've wanted to fall asleep. The sort of slipping off, the giving up, the falling part...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Beca...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why do I do anything?' she says. 'I'm educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A good story should make you laugh, and a moment later break your heart.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how both life and porno movies end. The only difference is life starts with the orgasm.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you play the stereo at max volume, it...
CHUCK KLOSTERMAN A menos que todo empeore, nada puede mejorar.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody ...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK A girl calls and asks, "Does it hurt very much to die?"
"Well, sweetheart," I tell her, "yes, b...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant th...
CHUCK DALY Always have a plan, and believe in it. Nothing happens by accident.
CHUCK KNOX Playing safe is only playing.
CHUCK OLSON Practice without improvement is meaningless.
CHUCK KNOX It's not the bulls and bears you need to avoid -- it's the bum steers.
CHUCK HILLIS