Chester Bennington Quotes

I was a geek who thought I was cool. I didn't hang out with a particular clique, but with different people from different cliques. I was a total nerd, trying to fit in. Luckily, I found music and that was my niche. That sorta took me out of my geekdom. I was never invited to parties as a teenager - I turned up with the popular people. That's where the lyrics to 'Guilty By Association' came from. ~ Chester Bennington

For me, you say the words 'concept record,' and the first thing I think of is theater or the opera or something. ~ Chester Bennington

We don't sit down and go, 'People are uneasy about the economy. Let's write about that.' ~ Chester Bennington

We're shooting for the title of hardest-working band in America. ~ Chester Bennington

Tattoos exude pain and pleasure all at the same time. ~ Chester Bennington

My favorite jellybean is the pink one with the flavor inside. ~ Chester Bennington

Our Fans are the best fans in the world , don't mess with them ~ Chester Bennington

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical. ~ Chester Bennington

It's not cool to be an alcoholic. ~ Chester Bennington

I have been able to tap into all the negative things that can happen to me throughout my life by numbing myself to the pain so to speak and kind of being able to vent it through my music. ~ Chester Bennington

Asking someone to describe what something sounds like is like telling a blind person to guess what I look like. ~ Chester Bennington

You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live ~ Chester Bennington

When you're young artist, it's really important to like pay attention to what you're doing and be honest with yourself and in the creative proccess. ~ Chester Bennington

There was another time when Mike was really foul mood and we had to make a pit stop so he could use a porta potty. Mike went to use the porta potty and we were waiting inside the RV. It was joe's idea, but we all got out and started to rock the thing back and forth. We didn't mean to, but we ended up tipping the porta potty over while Mike was in it! Then we attacked him with air freshener ~ Chester Bennington

The rule in music land is never doody in the bus and never doody in the RV. ~ Chester Bennington

Once we start hitting lyrical themes that can whack you from all these different perspectives, we know we're onto something special. ~ Chester Bennington

If fans come up to me, I talk to them. ~ Chester Bennington

I always wanted to be a rock star. That was my childhood dream. That's what I told everybody I was going to be when I grew up. ~ Chester Bennington

The fans are the biggest reason we do what we do. ~ Chester Bennington

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician. ~ Chester Bennington

We're not a political band, we're a socially-minded band. ~ Chester Bennington

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities. ~ Chester Bennington

What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back. ~ Chester Bennington

Tattoos are permanent and a lifelong commitment, the same as marriage. ~ Chester Bennington

Touring for two years is excruciating. ~ Chester Bennington

I try so hard and got so far in the end it doesn't even matter ~ Chester Bennington

Well, we promised our fans that we'd put out records faster, and that's what we're doing. We figured out a way to condense our cycle, so to speak, by ... continuing to write, trying to keep the creative ball rolling as often as possible. ~ Chester Bennington

I don't like to hold back, because that's how you hurt yourself. ~ Chester Bennington

We like playing smaller venues, but we know how many people want to come and see us so we don't ever want to stop anyone who wants to come to a show from coming. ~ Chester Bennington

To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird. ~ Chester Bennington

This is a business of love and labor. ~ Chester Bennington

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there. ~ Chester Bennington

Some kids are so depressed at home and with how people treat them in school that they cut themselves. This happens all over the world - kids who don't want to kill themselves, but nobody understands how much they hurt, so they cut themselves with razor blades. ~ Chester Bennington

As an artist, I want a reaction. ~ Chester Bennington

You think I'm stupid. Stay out of my way. You think I'm stupid. ~ Chester Bennington

I don't drink. I choose to be sober now. I have drunk over the last six years, but I just don't want to be that person anymore. ~ Chester Bennington

Faith and initiative rightly combined, remove mountains, barriers and achieve the unheard of and the miraculous. ~ Henry Chester

When you get to mixing sex and religion, it will make anybody crazy. ~ Chester Himes

I felt that it was an unnecessary loss of civilian life ... We had them beaten. They hadn't enough food, they couldn't do anything. ~ Chester W. Nimitz

Well, there doesn't seem anything else for an ex-President to do but to go into the country and raise big pumpkins. ~ Chester A. Arthur

Chester nods all the way through this, but does not rudely interrupt Randy as a younger nerd would. Your younger nerd takes offense quickly when someone near him begins to utter declarative sentences, because he reads into it an ssertion that he, the nerd, does not already know the information being imparted. But your older nerd has more
self-confidence, and besides, understands that frequently people need to think out loud. And highly advanced nerds will furthermore understand that uttering declarative sentences whose contents are already known to all present is part of the social process of making conversation and therefore should not be construed as aggression under any circumstances. ~ Neal Stephenson

They believed in Black Power. They'd give it a trial anyway. Everything else had failed. What did they have to lose? And they might win. Who knew? The whale swallowed Jonah. Moses split the Red Sea. Christ rose from the dead. Lincoln freed the slaves. Hitler killed six million Jews. The Africans had got to rule – in some parts of Africa, anyway. The Americans and the Russians have shot the moon. Some joker has made a plastic heart. Anything is possible. ~ Chester Himes

Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted. ~ Chester W. Nimitz

Almost every scene, I re-think as I'm about to start drawing it, and at least half of the time I'm changing dialogue or whatever, or adding scenes or different things. ~ Chester Brown

It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man. ~ Chester Himes

What the ... ? "Holy S***! You're 250 years old!?"
He gives me a wink of his beautiful eye in response. "Surprised?"
"Um, hell yeah. Ok, that's pretty much disgusting. Chester the Molester. I've been screwing an ancient artefact!" Dorian & Gabriella ~ S.L. Jennings

A Prayer Found in Chester Cathedral Give me good digestion, Lord, And also something to digest; Give me a healthy body, Lord, With sense to keep it at its best. Give me a healthy mind, good Lord, To keep the good and pure in sight; Which, seeing sin, is not appalled, But finds a way to set it right. Give me a mind that is not bored, That does not whimper, whine or sigh; Don't let me worry overmuch About the fussy thing called 'I'. Give me a sense of humour, Lord, Give me the grace to see a joke; To get some happiness from life, And pass it on to other folk. - Anonymous ~ John Boyes

Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure. ~ Chester Brown

At this point, Chester started to bathe his tail, which is a cat's way of changing a subject he finds uncomfortable. ~ James Howe

The executive art is nine-tenths inducing those who have authority to use it in taking pertinent action ~ Chester Barnard

A.J. nodded, covering her smile with a hand as Devlin emerged with his hair messed up and hay hanging off his sweater. He looked like he'd been through a war.
"You okay there, champ?" Chester asked. "Those there grain bags can be tough when they come atcha in a pack like that. ~ J.R. Ward

You want to bang something too, sonny, you can borrow my shovel! ~ Abigail Roux

Our highest ambition is to be included in the stream of American life, to be permitted to "play the game" as any other American; and is opposed to anything that aids in the exclusion; the face may be Africa, but the heart has the beat of Wall Street. ~ Chester Himes

There were two off-campus Negro fraternities, one of which Chester pledged for, but even these, he said later, admitted students on the basis of skin shadings, with men of lighter complexion being viewed as more desirable.2 ~ Edward Margolies

Imagine yourself winning?.. Wouldn't that make you overconfident?'
'Not at all... It's called "positive visualisation", like being a runner: see yourself making it across the finish line, you pace yourself better, run a better race too. See yourself winning at poker, you make the winning calls. See yourself as a loser, you've not got the self-belief or determination to play well, no matter how much money you gamble.'
Chester - to Jennifer
I was shocked to hear the words of the Love Professor echoed by Chester: like yourself and you'll win; think you're a loser, and sure enough you'll end up losing. ~ Jennifer Cox

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely. ~ Chester Brown

The trouble with true faith is that it is 100% sure and the trouble with scientific knowledge is that it isn't! ~ David Harold Chester

Is the proposed operation likely to succeed? What might the consequences of failure? Is it in the realm of practicability in terms of material and supplies? ~ Chester W. Nimitz

Our sin warps our understanding because we all tend toward self-justification. Studying ~ Tim Chester

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. ~ Chester Bowles

People don't really want original stories. they want different versions of the same story. this is called meta-narrative. ~ Chester Elijah Branch

As far as sex slavery goes, in Canada, if the woman has a Canadian accent, I'm confident that she hasn't been trafficked and forced to work as a prostitute. ~ Chester Brown

see who got caught. They have three grown children and enough grandchildren to keep them young. When she's not writing, Carolyn likes to sit in her gorgeous backyard with her cats, Chester Fat Boy and Boots Randolph Terminator Outlaw, and watch them protect their territory from crickets, locusts, and spiders. ~ Carolyn Brown

I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty - and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

Though others may hate you, those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself. ~ President Richard Nixon ~ Chester Goad

I don't worry about how accurately I convey my personality. I learned early on that it's almost impossible to accurately portray yourself. ~ Chester Brown

Some of his [Chester Bowles's] friends thought that his entire political career reflected his background, that he truly believed in the idea of the Republic, with an expanded town-hall concept of politics, of political leaders consulting with their constituency, hearing them out, reasoning with them, coming to terms with them, government old-fashioned and unmanipulative. Such governments truly had to reflect their constituencies. It was his view not just of America, but of the whole world. Bowles was fascinated by the political process in which people of various countries expressed themselves politically instead of following orders imposed by an imperious leadership. In a modern world where most politicians tended to see the world divided in a death struggle between Communism and free-world democracies, it was an old-fashioned view of politics; it meant that Bowles was less likely to judge a country on whether or not it was Communist, but on whether or not its government seemed to reflect genuine indigenous feeling. (If he was critical of the Soviet leadership, he was more sympathetic to Communist governments in the underdeveloped world.) He was less impressed by the form of a government than by his own impression of its sense of legitimacy. ... He did not particularly value money (indeed, he was ill at ease with it), he did not share the usual political ideas of the rich, and he was extremely aware of the hardships with which most Americans lived. Instead of hiring highly pa ~ David Halberstam