Rant Quotes

• 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

  Anger, Frustration, Kitchen

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• I rant, therefore I am

  Dennis Miller

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

  Scott Weiland

  Computer, Internet, Easy

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• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Degrees

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance”, p.256, Profile Books

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• 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

  Song, Fire, Air

  Joseph Addison (1808). “The Poetical Works of Joseph Addison: Collated with the Best Editions”, p.54

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• The future you have, tomorrow, won't be the same future you had, yesterday.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Future, Yesterday, Tomorrow

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• Life's greatest comfort is being able to look over your shoulder and see people worse off, waiting in line behind you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Waiting In Line, People, Looks

  "Rant: The Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• 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

  Funny, Letting Go, Humor

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• 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

  Annoyed, Important, Example

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• 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

  Fun, Drinking, Drug

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most people display.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Believe, Imagination

  "Rant". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's how I discovered Thomas Bernhard, an Austrian novelist whose novels tend to be one long rant.

  Stephen Dobyns

  Long, Novelists, Sometimes

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Sometimes, people call my way of speaking ranting. Why are you always ranting and screaming, they ask. But here’s the thing…the reason why I rant is because I am a voice for many women that cannot speak out to heads of state, UN officials, and those that influence systems of oppression. And so I rant. And I will not stop ranting until my mission of equality of all girls is achieved.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Girl, Speaks Out, Voice

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• 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

  Pain, White, Gigs

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Happiness, Moon, Ideas

  "Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, May 1, 2007.

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• Vehemence without feeling is but rant.

  George Henry Lewes

  Feelings, Vehemence, Violence

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• It would be so irresponsible not to speak up. I don't know what I would do in my home and in my life if I didn't rant a little bit and as thoughtfully as I can with some humor.

  Judd Apatow

  Home, Would Be, Littles

  Source: www.npr.org

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• At least when right-wingers rant there's a point.

  Ann Coulter

  Politics

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• I rant and rave about noise pollution.

  Robert Carlyle

  Noise, Rave, Pollution

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 22, 2008.

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• 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

  Writing, Sleep, Phones

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.30, New York Review of Books

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• Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves, and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of its own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, everyone...a humble miracle

  Joanne Harris

  Summer, Laughter, Memories

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• 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

  Thinking, Not Afraid

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• 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

  Drama, Thinking, Foam

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6533, Delphi Classics

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• Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is in the eyes of other folks.’ If you were going to carve a quote on his grave, his favorite saying was: ‘The future you have tomorrow won’t be the same future you had yesterday.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Eye, Yesterday, People

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.18, Random House

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• Facts tend to take the punch out of a good hate rant and are therefore left best unsaid.

  John Ridley

  Hate, Facts, Unsaid

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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