Patti Smith Quotes
I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
Quotes to Explore
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
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There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I hate competition.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being choosy about the roles I take up. One thing I can assure you of is that you are going to see a lot of me!
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Conscience is the perfect interpreter of life.
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There is another common misapprehension that the magnitude scale is itself some kind of instrument or apparatus. Visitors will frequently ask to 'see the scale.'
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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I am reverential to great stars. I don't want sexual congress with them. The writer in me reveres the artist in them.
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So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd just pass food around all day. And we would just rock and roll 'til 4, then Matty Libatique, our great cinematographer, would say, 'Outta light, guys' - and that was it.
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My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn, New York neighborhood; adults standing in so called 'bread lines,' children begging in the streets.
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I would rather write or record something great and have it overlooked than do mediocre work and have it be popular.
