A Quote by Chuck Palahniuk

We all have some proper noun to blame. — © Chuck Palahniuk
We all have some proper noun to blame.
God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.
Jason Sudeikis said an SNL go-to for naming people was: regular first name, noun last name. My noun was Beard.
Why use a modifier to set straight a not-quite-right noun when the right noun is available?
How can an adjective in front of a noun not describe the noun? There are dwarf stars, but they're still considered stars.
Fascist is not just an epithet. Fascist is a proper noun that means a specific thing. It`s a real thing. It`s not always referring to ancient history.
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
One of the things I tell my students is that if you want to understand what's been going on and also what needs to be done, you've got to get out of the blame game. Some people on the left want to blame the rich and corporations. Some people on the right want to blame the poor and government. Either of those frames of reference gets you nowhere and they aren't even truthful. You've got to understand the dynamic itself.
I would say 'woman' used to be a noun, and now it is a noun and also an adjective. And words change their functions in that way. It's one of the most common phenomena about words. They start as one thing, and they end up as something else.
Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.
Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.
I don't blame the players, I don't blame the parents, I blame programs and I blame the coaches.
To some people, power is a noun. To others, it's a verb.
Everything you do in life, I don't care, good or bad - don't blame God, don't blame the devil, don't blame me, blame you. You control everything! The thoughts you think, the words you utter, the foods you eat, the exercise you do. Everything is controlled by you.
You can blame Al Gore and you can blame Ralph Nader and you can blame George Bush, but I blame Bill [Clinton]. I just do. I just think he squandered his presidency the night that woman delivered that pizza to him, and if he hadn't, we wouldn't be where we are and there would be a lot of people who are alive today who aren't.
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