Patti Smith Quotes

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Patti Smith

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
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  • Equate
  • Pow

• So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • School
  • Education
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• My parents have been with me every step of the way.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Step

• Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Better

• I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • You
  • Blow

• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Happy
  • Want
  • Be Happy

• In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

  

  Kara Hayward
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Change

• When you have a movie, you know who they start out as and where they go. But this is constantly changing, and you're growing with the character.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Growing

• If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • Power
  • Reality

• I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • God
  • King
  • Legal

• It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.

  

  Salman Khan
  • People
  • Done
  • Change

• My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!

  

  Kate Moss
  • Up
  • World
  • She

• I wanted to write for all children, even those kids who might see language as a threatening thing, even if English is their second language.

  

  Ursula Dubosarsky
  • Children
  • Kids
  • English

• I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Home
  • Like
  • Build

• I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Always
  • Forever
  • Never

• For me, writing is a love – hate relationship.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Hate

• I am fortunate enough with my career that I can speak out to the masses and hopefully be a part of initiating change.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Career
  • Change
  • Speak

• 'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!

  

  Lewis Carroll

• Israel, in general, should learn from other nations. We have a tendency to teach the world. In many cases, we should learn from the world, because they make advances.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • World
  • Learn
  • Teach

• It has been demonstrated that no system, not even the most inhuman, can continue to exist without an ideology.

  

  Joe Slovo

• I wear the ring.

  

  Pat Conroy

• The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is, exists only by being spent and there is a good case for showing that airplanes, machines, the telephone, and the radio do not make men of today happier than those of former times.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Existence
  • Case
  • Telephone

• Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Desire