Patti Smith Quotes

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

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• 'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Kind
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Home
  • Thought
  • Playing

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Write
  • Stuff
  • Personal

• I am a big music nerd.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Music
  • Nerd

• People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'

  

  Maggie Wheeler
  • People
  • Know
  • Like

• When you're a member of Congress, you can become an expert in a couple of subjects. For example, I've worked on federal procurement reform, the Armed Services Committee, manufacturing, and women's health care.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Health
  • Care

• I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • People
  • Freedom
  • Government

• Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • World
  • Bad
  • Game

• I like to prepare each tour in a different way.

  

  Maluma
  • Different
  • Way
  • Like

• I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce. Being sick always gave me another chance to break an old-fashioned mercury thermometer, too.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mind
  • School
  • Home

• I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please.

  

  Jack Finney
  • Up
  • Said
  • Thanks

• I never wanted fame.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • Never
  • Wanted
  • Fame

• But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Time
  • Problems
  • Saying

• More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Internet

• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

  

  Olof Palme
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Question

• I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Nature
  • Practice

• I'm trying to make sense of lot of things with 'Tyrannosaur.' I'm trying to make sense of people who've left now. They're not here, they can't answer for themselves any more, they're gone. And I'm trying to make peace with those ghosts.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Trying
  • Peace

• When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Good
  • Light
  • Cold

• With fiction, you can take something that bothers you, or that you don't have in clear focus, and you can put it under as much stress as you want. Really get underneath the skin. With nonfiction, you're restricted to what happened.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Focus
  • Stress

• I wanted to make a video for the holidays, but none of the traditional holiday songs were moving me.

  

  Bonnie McKee
  • Moving
  • Holiday

• It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Food
  • Sing
  • Chat

• I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

  

  Patti Smith