Patti Smith Quotes

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.

  

  Samuel L. Jackson
  • Hope
  • Worry
  • Scary

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Style
  • Quality
  • Try

• Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

  

  Lance Morrow
  • Mind
  • Church
  • Force

• If you look at my record, I have a clean record.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • You
  • Look
  • Clean

• Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Reason
  • Feelings
  • Mankind

• You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • You
  • Cannot
  • Govern

• I have to be smart. You cannot be going in there, trying to go forward and pressure guys, and be taking damage and getting hurt on the way to doing it.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Trying
  • Hurt
  • Smart

• Growing up, I always wanted to sing.

  

  Damian McGinty
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Always

• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Writing
  • Confidence

• Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Action
  • Easy
  • Suspense

• I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fashion

• I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Done
  • Career
  • Years

• In 2011, General Alston, four-star commander in Iraq, recommended to the President, a force level of over 20,000. The President rejected it and pulled out all the forces with what is now known as a disastrous consequence in Syria.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Star
  • President
  • Now

• Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Nothing
  • Happens
  • Inevitable

• No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Family
  • Jewish
  • Identify

• You put a disk here and then you put another disk that is a triangle at the other end and then you balance them on your finger and keep on adding. I don't use rectangles - they stop. You can use them; I have at times, but only when I want to block, to constipate movement.

  

  Alexander Calder
  • Stop
  • Balance

• A lot of chefs don't have a natural sense of economy. I was with one guy the other day, and I had to show him how to peel a turnip, because the way he was peeling turnips, he was throwing half of it in the garbage. It's not about being cheap. It's about being proper.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Economy

• Your mind is like, oh my God, I know this is wrong, but your body just gives in.

  

  Jessica Hahn
  • God
  • Mind

• The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Fear
  • Problem
  • Lethargy

• My theory is that when you're famous, you're no different from anybody else - it's just that more people know your name.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • Different
  • Famous

• It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

  

  Patti Smith
  • People
  • Rock