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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
Rant would tell people: 'You're a different human being to everybody you meet. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated. -- Scott Weiland
Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other. -- Sue Townsend
The government says Rant's alive because they need a villain. The kids say he's alive because they need a hero. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem. -- Jerry Orbach
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time. -- Dennis Miller
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual. -- Phyllis Diller
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
A good rant is cathartic. Ranting is what keeps me sane. They always come from a different place. Take the prime minister, for example. Sometimes when I rant about him, I am angry; other times, I am just severely annoyed-it's an important distinction. -- Rick Mercer
One of the people who most influenced me was Ben Shapiro, a marketing professor at the business school. He used to rant and rave and pound his fist: 'It's all about the customers!' And he was right. He was also right that, at that time, retailing was devoid of really talented people; he urged me to go in that direction. -- Thomas G. Stemberg
I rant, therefore I am -- Dennis Miller
Vehemence without feeling is but rant. -- George Henry Lewes
They classify my motivational speeches as rants! -- Kanye West
...because I rant not, neither rave of what I feel, can you be so shallow as to dream that I feel nothing? -- R.D. Blackmore
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness. -- Atul Gawande
A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room. -- Richard Yates
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all. -- Renata Adler
Communities must plan for a variety of uses and income levels. Why do we care about housing as high-tech employers? If teachers, firefighters, peace officers, retail or restau- rant workers can't live here, then we're going to fail. -- Carl Guardino
I'm just following the Irish tradition of songwriting, the Irish way of life, the human way of life. Cram as much pleasure into life, and rail against the pain you have to suffer as a result. Or scream and rant with the pain, and wait for it to be taken away with beautiful pleasure . . . -- Shane MacGowan
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. -- George Eliot
Rant Casey used to say, "No matter what happens, it's always now..." Talk about cryptic. I think what Rant meant was, we live in the present moment of reality, and no matter what's come before, no matter how much we loved a person or a dog, when it attacks us we'll react to that moment of danger. -- Chuck Palahniuk
The "progressives" who today masquerade as "liberals" may rant against "fascism"; yet it is their policy that paves the way for Hitlerism. Nothing could have been more helpful to the success of the National-Socialist (Nazi) movement than the methods used by the "progressives," denouncing Nazism as a party serving the interests of "capital." The German workers knew this tactic too well to be deceived by it again. -- Ludwig von Mises
I rant, therefore I am. -- Dennis Miller
I rant and rave about noise pollution. -- Robert Carlyle
So much of 'Fight Club' was a rant against fathers. -- Chuck Palahniuk
I'm not going to go on Twitter and rant about something. -- Ansel Elgort
The free market allowed shock jocks to flourish, and millions of listeners apparently enjoyed the rant. -- Christine Pelosi
Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid. -- John Ridley
I could go on a long rant about how much I despise e-mail. I wish it was more socially acceptable to ignore people. -- Steve Huffman
I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown. -- Rebecca Ferguson
Punk was a protest against work and against boredom. It was a sign of life, a rant, a scream, a rejection of bourgeois morals. But have things improved since then? Arguably, they've got worse. -- Tom Hodgkinson
I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments. -- Andy Milonakis
My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him. -- Dick Armey
Never angrily rant into your web cam. While smashing a keyboard in half over a game of 'World of Warcraft' may seem totally justified in your head, to the rest of the known universe you look like a raging psychopath. -- Ray William Johnson
My tolerance for crazy people is, I think, high a tolerance as you're ever going to find. I love being around David Allen Coe. I would have loved to hang out with Tiny Tim. I can listen to Sun Ra on a tape-recording rant. -- Penn Jillette
I used to do this big rant at the end of some gigs with Ben Folds Five. The band broke into this big heavy metal thing and I started as a joke to scream in a heavy metal falsetto. I found myself saying things like: Feel my pain, I am white, feel my pain. -- Ben Folds
One thing I've learned about death threats is that they're great, actually. You should actually be grateful for death threats because those who are taking the time to threaten you that way are getting it out of their system. That's really what they rant to do, yell at you, and they want to threaten you. -- Michael Moore
America pays its bills. It always has. It always will. The fact that Washington is now debating whether to honor its debts and obligations, then, should come as a surprise. But playing political football with a necessary vote to raise the nation's debt ceiling has become as predictable as a Twitter rant from Charlie Sheen. -- Peter Welch
I feel like some sort of fiction-writing hobo, jumping trains and always hoping I'll find a good place to start a fire in the next town. And I keep having these panicky episodes where I corner my husband and rant at him: 'I don't have anywhere to write! I can't write! I don't have a place to write!' -- Rainbow Rowell
People idealise their animals, and at the same time they patronisingly overlook a dog's natural life - biting fleas, burying bones, rolling in garbage, barking up an empty tree all night... But what do they do themselves? Bury stuff that will rot in secret and then dig it up and bury it again and rant and rave under empty trees! -- Tove Jansson
In Praise of Slowness' chronicles the global trend towards deceleration that has come to be known as the Slow Movement. Don't worry, though: it is not a Luddite rant. I love speed. Going fast can be fun, liberating and productive. The problem is that our hunger for speed, for cramming more and more into less and less time, has gone too far. -- Carl Honore
At least when right-wingers rant there's a point. -- Ann Coulter
An Icelandic mayor goes on an anti-elf rant which gets him in trouble. -- Peter Sagal
Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa. -- Iain Banks
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December. -- Matthew Goldman
Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history. -- William Cowper
Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December. -- Matthew Goldman
Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave -- Durwood Merrill
Tracy Morgan apologizes for his homophobic rant, still no apologies for the sketch about the guy living under the street. -- Andy Kindler
An abundance of Twitter users believe they can troll and rant with impunity, no matter how debasing or even threatening their 140-character posts pose. -- Jonathan Capehart
Who rant by note, and through the gamut rage; in songs and airs express their martial fire; combat in trills, and in a fugue expire. -- Joseph Addison
Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant. -- Joe Klein
Do you want my input or is this just an angry tirade you need to vent? (Acheron) Both! (Kat) Okay, you rant and I'll add my comments at the end. (Acheron) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I tend to sit around with my friends a lot and rant and rave about things I think are ridiculous in the world, and I tend to make fun of myself a lot. -- Tom Green
I feel as if I could be any thing or every thing, as if I could rant and storm, or sigh, or cut capers in any tragedy or comedy in the English language. -- Jane Austen
My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual -- Phyllis Diller
We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments. -- Jeffery Deaver

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