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

• Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Fashion
  • Brand
  • Only

• Oh, was that liquor of yours a stimulant?" asked Elena. "I wondered why he didn't fall asleep." "Couldn't you tell?" chuckled Mayhew. "Not really." Miles twisted his head to take in Elena's upside-down worried face, and smile in weak reassurance. Sparkly black and purple whirlpools clouded his vision. Mayhew's laughter faded. "My God," he said hollowly, "you mean he's like that all the time?

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Black
  • Fall
  • Mean

• Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.

  

  Antonia Fraser

• Don't be alarmed … They are a little annoyed because Spring is late... Leave it to me; I will settle it all.

  

  Maurice Maeterlinck
  • Spring
  • Annoyed

• That's one of those questions where somebody says "would you like to see more women behind the camera?" And then it becomes I must have interrupted the interview to make a platform stance. But, no, I do believe it. In Australia, per capita, we've got a slightly more balanced and healthier statistic than here. I've only just started working more regularly with female ADs and its just a beautiful, different energy on set.

  

  Geoffrey Rush
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Beautiful

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

  

  Patti Smith