Patti Smith Quotes

I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.

Patti Smith

Quotes to Explore

Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.

Palaniappan Chidambaram
- Space
- Ideas
- Own
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.

Ramez Naam
- Action
- Worry
- Optimism
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'

Ted Yoho
- People
- Country
- Lost
One thing that bugs me in comedy is when somebody does a fake cry, you know, like they fake cry in a comedy. But in a drama they'll really cry. That bugs me.

Sam Rockwell
- Know
- Comedy
- Drama
When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.

Karen DeCrow
- School
- Thing
- Athletics
I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

Jack Kilmer
- Future
- Down
- Plan