We had a couple of rough days (against Sidney, Bismarck) and it was nice to heal the wound a little bit. Traditionally Parent's Night gives us a little more because guys know it's their last home dual and you always remember that last match and your final match of your season.
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Related Last season was a lot more fun because we had a better record and we were competitive in every match... JAY MERGENTHALER We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get ho... BRIAN CLOUGH I think last year they moved their Senior Night to the next to last match because they didn't want t... MATT PROPER Both of those were tough matches throughout. We had a match last night, I missed two practices and f... JAMIE FRANCO It was definitely a little bit better match than the last match we played in Hawaii. We were able to... DEVIN SCRUGGS We wrestled a terrific dual as a team against Purdue, which is what we have been looking for all sea... TOM MINKEL You always like to go out winning your last match, but he's had a good career. DAVID GANEY It was a little bit of a chess match. GENE MCATEER Pakistan Captain Misbah Ul Haq can take heart from the fact that Australia is already treating their... APURVA GAGLANI I was real proud of the guys because this was South's last game, they were going to be fired up and ... DAN GOLDBERG I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We put Kaitlin Smith up top to give us a little more speed and that played a difference, ... We had ... LESLIE FOSTER We've chased pitches a little more the last couple, three days. We've got guys maybe over-anxious at... ERIC WEDGE You know, Jimmy Martin's a good kid. He was an all-American back at nationals this last summer, and ... BOB FREUND You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS You want to come back a little more fired up. I feel like I let the guys down a little bit last week... GEE NASH They've been around the block. They have a couple of Swedish players that have big serves and really... BOBBY BAYLISS We had a nice little run and kind of turned the tide a little bit. That's what you look for in your ... PAUL AZNAREZ Tomorrow is more unfinished business for us. We are very happy to be in the final, but we aren't sat... BOB CALLAHAN This match was about Sean Brown for us. He is our only senior, and he really thought it would be nea... CHRIS RYAN It was my first final, so I was a little bit overwhelmed at the whole atmosphere. It was still a clo... IVO KARLOVIC This is a team sport, and the kids know that we are trying to be more diversified and not have as mu... BOB KNOX This was the last team match of the season and the kids played well, so it was fun. The kids had a g... DON SMITH The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS To the extent that you know a little more about your opponent, that's good. How we match the intensi... AL LAVAN Overall, we should have wrestled better. The only good thing was we had four guys win their last mat... BILL PERRY We're definitely looking forward to wrestling at home again. West Virginia is going to be a good mat... JOEL GREENLEE The first match is an equalizing factor. There's always a little bit of nerves and rust to shake off... ANDY JACKSON All we are seeing is a little bit of profit taking after the surge we have had in the last couple of... JULIE BROUGH We got frustrated. You know how it is when seniors know they might be playing their last game. They ... CHIP ATKINS As you get older you appreciate the triple-double a little more. It would be really nice to get one ... JASON KIDD It's never really easy, even if it's a match you should win. I pressured myself just because, you kn... IAN KAWAS Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY I don't know if I can put a percentage on it. It's tough to say. Some days are a little better than ... LEE HUMPHREY We got a little taste of postseason success last season. Now I know they want to get more of it this... ANDY KEITH I think last weekend for a couple of them, it had been a bit disappointing in certain aspects of the... BUFFY BAKER Start the best five guys, whether you can go a little bit bigger or go back to smaller like last yea... MIKE D'ANTONI Both teams were a little apprehensive. It was a bit of a checkers match at first. JERRY YORK I can't play any better than I did tonight, ... I was a little nervous before the match because if y... FABRICE SANTORO We don't always have the numbers we would like to see. Last year was a really rough year for us beca... BILL KNICKERBOCKER Chris may have a little bit of an edge because he's played some in the big leagues and had some at-b... LARRY BEINFEST Without him each of us knows we have to pick it up a little bit and score. It's my last season and I... JEAN FELIX Looking back on the season that we had and how crazy it was, I was just so excited that we got it do... HANNAH KIRK A year ago, I don't know if Stephen could have served that match out. At the start of the year again... BOB BAYLISS There's a little bit of flattening out from the action of the last couple of days. There's not a lot... DONNA VAN VLACK They played at three last year and never lost a match together. Everything's a little tougher now. KITTY PALMER I wanted that one last match with him. Me and him would have had the region final to watch. NICK PARISI Ellsworth comes down here and they're awfully tough. West Salem, we lost a dual match to in a team t... JACK HAMMOND This season we wanted to sort of lighten it up and make it a little bit more transparent ... a littl... GREG MYLER Not a bad season. In the last match, once we knew we couldn't win, we wrestled some different guys. ... JAKE SHULAW It was great to get to finish in states. I was a little disappointed; I expected to win my last matc... CASEY MCDONALD She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That's the way it goes. We got off to a slow start (against Epps), but actually the next three quart... CARY SHIVELY I golfed out here a couple times in the last couple days and I knew it was going to be rough for the... TECUMSEH We came out a little flat today. They played with a bit more sense of urgency and I think we just pl... JOE BRYANT Last year, there was a little more pressure. We're more of an underdog. We want to be special and ge... JAMES AUGUSTINE I told the kids before the match that there are some matches you'll always remember. We had a lot of... DAVE BALDANZA I've got to savor this a little bit -- my last regular-season game against Arizona. Finishing it off... EMILY ZAPLATOSCH It was nice that he was able to hit those shots because everyone else was cold against their zone. H... BILL SAMBROOKES It was nice that we could get everybody in the game, and it was a good way for our seniors to play t... JAMES FORNI I think I'm kind of cocky a little bit because I beat them last year and I'm 3-1 in the last four ga... CHRIS RICHARD It's always good to have a little breather and have a break and kind of regroup before the last litt... ROD BRIND'AMOUR We had a close one with them last year so they will be ready to come out against us. My goal is that... BUFFY BAKER That was my first double-overtime match of the season. You're always tired going into double overtim... MIKE JONES We took the whole weekend off which was really nice. We really needed those couple of days off to le... KRISTEN PALOMBO Now that this is a non-conference match, it felt a little strange. It's a lot different, starting wi... LEE MATTHEWS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS And the hype got to us a little bit last time. LACY MINGEE It was nice to get the match in, for one, and it was obviously nice to get the win. This gives us a ... BOB ORR It was borderline embarrassing. We're definitely looking for some kind of redemption to change thing... DEWITT DRISCOLL You want to go to the playoffs with a bit of a swagger. It's not to the level we want it to be. When... JERMAINE O'NEAL We had a little bit of redemption. It's a good feeling to know we won our last game at Maples. DAN GRUNFELD History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We had a little bit of rain to come in. It helped for about two days. And now we're back to the way ... JAMES WADE As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's..... JONATHAN LEVINE He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definetly ... TONY VIGORITO I thought it was a good match. We played well and it is good preparation for our conference matches ... DAVE BORELLI We were getting on each other because the last couple games we've been dogging it. We tried coming o... EREK HANSEN Shots started to fall for us and we had a nice run. But it was a little too early. We need that run ... BETHANY IRWIN The penalty against us was the turning point of this match. After that the Guineans came back fully ... KALUSHA BWALYA Just because the match is friendly doesn't mean that it can't be intense. These matches have always ... JIM FURYK Just because the match is friendly doesn't mean that it can't be intense, ... These matches have alw... JIM FURYK It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... The course was great and had a lot of competition. It was a bigger meet and that will prepare us for... KIRSTEN ANTHONY It always boosts your spirits. With a season like we had this year and last year it is easy to get d... BEN TROUPE It was kind of something we preached the last three days, kind of a grudge match on the boards. Who'... TRAVIS FORD It was a rough night last night. ED BAILEY It's a little bit discouraging, but it's something we can't dwell on. We have to realize guys are go... SHAQUILLE O'NEAL We're just forgetting about (last season) and moving on. The kids have something to prove. They have... DENNY MARTIN I expect this match to be tight just as our last match was here at home back in February. The final ... GEORGE HUSACK Certainly coming out here for the first match in such a long time, I couldn't have expected that sta... ANDRE AGASSI Violet: Look, I've had a rough couple of days, are you really the owner? Cuz the last think I need i... MARIA BELLO
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The pins killed us. When we're in those matches and go to being pinned ... that killed (us). CHUCK MICHAELSON I talked it over with my parents (Wendy and Chris), my coach (Southern Connecticut's Tim Quill of Wo... BEN MICHAELSON Stu graciously let me stay in his guest house from February to April with his family for three month... BEN MICHAELSON I had no job, and no place to live. BEN MICHAELSON If companies are violating the GPL, they don't have the right to use that software. And if they don'... JAY MICHAELSON Linux is a powerful operating system. But if companies violate the license, the consequences can be ... JAY MICHAELSON I think we can have two going at some weights. LUKE MICHAELSON I think we have a number of guys that can go after a West Region title. LUKE MICHAELSON Rankings don't mean anything to me, but it was fuel for the fire for our guys and I hope they go in ... LUKE MICHAELSON Never let anyone define what you are capable of by using parameters that don't apply to you. CHUCK 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 Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart. CHUCK D I used rebellion as a way to hide out. We use criticism as a fake participation. CHUCK PALAHNIUK On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stair... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and ... CHUCK COLSON Love me, I'll be anyobdy you want me to be. Use me. Change me. I can be thin with big breasts and bi... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe this is why so many serial killers work in pairs. It's nice not to feel alone in a world full ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Disaster is a natural part of my evolution. Toward tragedy and dissolution. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the w... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing is static. Even the Mona Lisa is falling apart. Since fight club, I can wiggle half the teet... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That old saying, how you always hurt the one you love, well, it works both ways CHUCK PALAHNIUK College is like a fountain of knowledge - and the students are there to drink CHUCK PALAHNIUK “Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You can kill a lifetime without feeling anything but skin. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I'm an uncaring asshole and proud of it. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Did you ever think about life as a metaphor for television? CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. CHUCK PALAHNIUK And maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Only after disaster can we be ressurected. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Imagine books and music and movies being filtered and homogenized. Certified. Approved for consumpti... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some bline, random disaster, or some sud... CHUCK PALAHNIUK People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. CHUCK PALAHNIUK While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes availa... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Las Vegas looks the way you'd imagine heaven must look at night. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Maybe we should always assume the worst. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching. CHUCK PALAHNIUK We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive.... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The truth is, every son raised by a single mom is pretty much born married. I don't know, but until ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. An... CHUCK TANNER The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom. CHUCK PALAHNIUK The first step to eternal life, is you have to die. CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person? CHUCK PALAHNIUK If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When we don't know who to hate, we hate ourselves. CHUCK PALAHNIUK When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd... CHUCK PALAHNIUK [T]here's no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet; this is just truth... CHUCK SIGARS Calendars are for careful people, not passionate ones. CHUCK SIGARS You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future. CHUCK PALAHNIUK On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. CHUCK PALAHNIUK Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. CHUCK PALAHNIUK As a former Airman First Class in the United States Air Force, like many veterans in America, my mil... CHUCK NORRIS I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home jo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about... CHUCK BERRY Our alliances should be understood as a means to expand our influence, not as a constraint on our po... CHUCK HAGEL I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my ... CHUCK YEAGER A face is a road map of someone's life. Without any need to amplify that or draw attention to it... CHUCK CLOSE Commonly, athletes will bolster their dietary intake with everyday vitamins such as magnesium and ir... CHUCK NORRIS Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet. CHUCK PALAHNIUK It amazes me when I hear people say, 'I want to go out and find out who I am.' I always knew... CHUCK BERRY I don't work with inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs. I just get to work. CHUCK CLOSE Disney was not a good animator, he didn't draw well at all, but he was always a great idea man, ... CHUCK JONES I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Jack Palance was my distant uncle - that's the family gossip. Growing up, my family knew everyth... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is ou... CHUCK PALAHNIUK My mother lived through the Great Depression. Her family of 11 children pulled themselves up by thei... CHUCK NORRIS We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence. CHUCK FLEISCHMANN What makes a child gifted and talented may not always be good grades in school, but a different way ... CHUCK GRASSLEY Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity o... CHUCK TODD I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unco... CHUCK PALAHNIUK When children are exposed to advertisements for unhealthy food, they will, in turn, consume signific... CHUCK NORRIS To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn... CHUCK KLOSTERMAN My best advice for writers is: Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK With a book, you're guaranteed the audience has a certain skill level and that the audience has ... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I've always found that anything worth achieving will always have obstacles in the way and you... CHUCK NORRIS If there had been zombies on the iceberg when the Titanic hit it, that would have made a much better... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Despite what Washington thinks or does on this 15th anniversary, we the people will never forget tho... CHUCK NORRIS Good things happen to those who hustle. CHUCK NOLL In 1966, NASA took over in space, and it has been a bureaucratic mess ever since. CHUCK YEAGER There are two tests in life, more important than any other test. On Monday morning, when you wake up... CHUCK SCHUMER Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibili... CHUCK PALAHNIUK The only difference between suicide and martyrdom is press coverage. CHUCK PALAHNIUK I can't lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. I'm so grateful to all my fans. I co... CHUCK BROWN You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the ... CHUCK YEAGER Don't let the same dog bite you twice. CHUCK BERRY I'm thankful for each and every day. We never know when time is up. CHUCK BERRY We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax... CHUCK PALAHNIUK What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like gr... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If the citizens of the United States are to turn away from the Communist Manifesto and preserve the ... CHUCK NORRIS Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a h... CHUCK NORRIS The key to a winning season is focusing on one opponent at a time. Winning one week at a time. Never... CHUCK NOLL My first four books, from 'Fight Club' to 'Choke,' dealt with personal identity issu... CHUCK PALAHNIUK In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagn... CHUCK PALAHNIUK That's all there was in our house: poetry and choir rehearsal and duets and so forth; I listened... CHUCK BERRY In the 7th grade, I made a 20-foot long mural of the Lewis and Clark Trail while we were studying th... CHUCK CLOSE Chuck Berry doesn't give interviews. CHUCK BERRY Maybe it is true what they say, that playing these Chuck Berry songs is easy. But try singing them. ... CHUCK BERRY Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really we... CHUCK PALAHNIUK One day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed ... CHUCK ZITO It's amazing because people come up to me and say, 'Chuck, you're the luckiest guy in th... CHUCK NORRIS Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important. CHUCK CLOSE