Patti Smith Quotes
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
-
I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.
-
The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
-
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
-
At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
-
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
-
Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
-
You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
-
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
-
In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
-
I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
-
I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
-
If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
-
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
-
Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
-
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution?
-
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
-
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
-
The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.
-
I don't view our approach as negative. I view our approach that when you have a candidate in a Republican primary make statements that would make his position to the left of Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama on immigration... we need to bring that out to the people.
-
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
-
In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
-
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
-
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in terms of imagination - my imagination is always fertile. I'm either thinking of my own things or constantly engaged by the things that other people do.
