Quotes About Bromden

#1. You have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep in balance. [Chief Bromden]

Ken Kesey

#2. I will be a sonofabitch if he ain't in here at eleven-thirty at night, fartin' around in the dark with a pair of scissors and a paper sack.

Ken Kesey

#3. The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

Linton Kwesi Johnson

#4. Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.

Jean Little

#5. How about you keep the tens of millions you nearly prevented me from earning for you last year and we call it even?

Michael Lewis

#6. And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

Jeff Lindsay

#7. Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

Donald Miller

#8. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.

Ned Rorem

#9. The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.

Cheryl Strayed

#10. When I die pin me up against the sky.

Ken Kesey

#11. No matter how much make up you put on
it will not make you beautiful on the inside.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. The past is magnetic. It draws us in.

Jeanette Winterson

#13. I'd rather have you die and have known you for five minutes then to have never known you and not have this hole in my heart. The pain is real but so is the love.

Marata Eros

#14. I been away a long time.

Ken Kesey

#15. Somehow I felt better toward him, knowing that he had possessed some instinct to fight back. It was something I needed to believe - that all men possess, somewhere, the dignity to value their own lives. If only enough to scratch the arm of the one who throws you to the wolves.

Randall Wallace

#16. I hear, Western people say, "The world was created for us." If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be.

Swami Vivekananda

#17. For me, I have gay family members, and I have a lot of friends in the LBGT community.

Ashley Wagner

#18. All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.

Karen Salmansohn

#19. I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along.
I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage.

Ken Kesey