Palahniuk Rant Quotes

#1. Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

Waylon Jennings

#2. As one went to Europe to see the living past, so one must visit Southern California to observe the future.

Alison Lurie

#3. He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.'
Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.

Chuck Palahniuk

#5. Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet.

Chuck Palahniuk

#6. Make the time to be scared of more interesting things

Merlin Mann

#7. Rant said that view of time was set up so folks won't live forever. It's the planned obsolescence we've all agreed to ... 'Nothing says you have to swallow this,' Rant told me. 'You can always just die.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.

Wilkie Collins

#9. One should never count the years
one should instead count one's interests. I have kept young trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I'm glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in.

Helen Keller

#10. There are no new plots, but there are plenty of fresh new characters with whom you can grab the reader. Characterization is the key to successful commercial fiction. Characterization starts with goal, motivation, and conflict. Character

Debra Dixon

#11. The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero.

Chuck Palahniuk

#12. No more excuses or procrastination! Stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals.

Steve Maraboli

#13. The magnitude of your importance in my life can't be put into words.

Laurelin Paige

#14. Rant goes, "Really, truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody?"
I go, doesn't Rant mean "love"?
And Rant shrugs and says, "Ain't it the same thing?

Chuck Palahniuk

#15. Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

Marion Barry

#16. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

M. Scott Peck

#17. So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers.

Chuck Palahniuk

#18. I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

Solange Knowles

#19. If you want to enjoy life more fully, the trick is to teach yourself to live in the insightful mode more often.

Cheryl Richardson

#20. I don't see 'lines of force' as being destructive, except to the extent that they are exclusively traceable through observance of the path of distorted material left in their wake.

Brian Ferneyhough