Chuck Klosterman Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Chuck Klosterman
Chuck Klosterman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Flying to me isn't scary, it's just incredibly boring. And I guess I have a fear of boredom, so in that regard, I'm afraid to fly.
The Sims is an escapist vehicle for people who want to escape to where they already are, which is why I thought this game was made precisely for me.
I think people's relationship with the concept of violence changes, and that to me might be a little more interesting.
We're all tourists, sort of. Life is tourism, sort of. As far as I'm concerned, the dinosaurs still hold the lease on this godforsaken rock.
It's difficult to cope with the infinite variety of the past, and so we apply filters and settle on a few famous names.
The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.
There's even an 1892 novel called Golf in the Year 2000 that (somewhat incredibly) predicts the advent of televised sports.
It"s easier to believe there's a monster under the bed if you've spent the last six months arguing with a monster.
The worst thing you can do to anybody trying to be creative is to demand participation in their vision.
I think the larger sect of liars are people who think they are telling the truth, but who really have no idea what the truth is.
You can't go into the office and be a jerk. You can't yell at your kids or your wife or your husband for no reason. That makes you a terrible person.
When I think about the future, I'm not necessarily arguing it's going to be better or worse. I'm just saying it's going to be different.
Instead, we were given a publication called the Weekly Reader, which was like a newspaper for four-foot illiterates.
I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
Saying you like "Piano Man" doesn't mean you like Billy Joel; it means you're willing to go to a piano bar if there's nothing else to do
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.
But this is how popular culture works: You allow yourself to be convinced you're
sharing a reality that doesn't exist.
sharing a reality that doesn't exist.
Jewel moved 432,000 hardcover copies of A Night Without Armor, thereby making her the best-selling American poet of the past fifty years.
[American football] fanbase resemble that of contemporary boxing: rich people watching poor people play a game they would never play themselves.
It might sound chauvinistic, but there is a sad reality in rock music: Bands who depend on support from females inevitably crash and burn.
Klosterman's Razor: the philosophical belief that the best hypothesis is the one that reflexively accepts its potential wrongness to begin with. _
It seems as though our ability to change technology happens so quickly, and our ability to evolve as creatures is still very slow.
Whenever someone says something that's both realistic and abhorrent, It makes me suspect everyone else is lying about everything else.
It's possible this whole "Why do Latinos love Morrisey?" question will haunt us forever. Fortunately, Canadian academics are on the case.
And the quality all these reasonable failures share is an inability to accept that the statue quo is temporary.
When I'm walking around, I'm usually drinking pop, so I can't have a mask on. That's why I couldn't be a surgeon.
Both lyrically and sonically, glam metal is the sensible accompaniment for removing one's pants for money.
If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can't just try to see the other side of an argument. That's not enough. You have to go all the way. Over
one of the things they desired most desperately was freedom of religion, based on the premise that Europe wasn't religious enough
People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they'd never admit in normal conversation.
Sid and Nancy's relationship forever illustrates the worst part of being in love with anyone, which is that people in love can't be reasoned with.
No one has ever honestly said, "I hate that this joke exists, even though it's clearly hilarious." It
This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.
Leadership is a word people use to reconcile any kind of charisma that was impossible to otherwise explain.
Mostly, we argued about who which of us was better at arguing, and particularly about who had won the previous argument.
Being a sexual icon is sort of like being the front man for an Orange County punk band: As soon as you can explain why you're necessary, you're over.
Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
But it goes without saying that Michael Jordan could never date Pamela Anderson. That would cause the apocalypse.
I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it's done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.