Patton Oswalt Quotes
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.Patton Oswalt
Quotes to Explore
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
Vince Lombardi -
Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran -
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow -
I love doing sitcoms. I love doing comedy. I love the whole shooting match.
Rachael Harris -
I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.
Carlos Santana Santana -
I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.
Taylor Swift
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My family moved to Buffalo, New York in 1940 where I was raised.
Jack Herer -
People who work in specialized fields seem to have their own language. Practitioners develop a shorthand to communicate among themselves. The jargon can almost sound like a foreign language.
Barry Ritholtz -
I think, for an actor, the whole world is a place of work because if you focus on characters and on stories, they are everywhere, so yeah, I feel very privileged to have had this great opportunities in the international cinema and especially in the American cinema.
Edgar Ramirez -
We show each day that we are prepared to act as an independence state... Not just in exceptional moments.
Carles Puigdemont -
I never really committed to being an actor. It never felt like it would be possible, I guess.
Eddie Redmayne -
When I was younger, I avoided exercise or anything strenuous. I didn't even enjoy walking. As I got older, I spent so much time marking books or sitting at a desk writing that there was no room for exercise - not that I would have bothered anyway.
Maeve Binchy
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. Mencken -
All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
Orison Swett Marden -
Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.
Randall Jarrell -
Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.
Anthony Bourdain -
When I found myself regarded as respectable, I began to wonder what sins I had committed. I must be very wicked, I thought. I began to engage in the most uncomfortable introspection.
Bertrand Russell
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Timothy's great value was that he was always willing to go anywhere; and in his hands a message was as safe as if Paul had delivered it himself. Others might be consumed with selfish ambition; but Timothy's one desire was to serve Paul and Jesus Christ. He is the patron saint of all those who are quite content with the second place, so long as they can serve.
William Barclay -
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E. F. Schumacher -
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.
Oscar Wilde -
Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
Sam Heughan -
Fashion is anything which is you and reflects your personality, and if you are comfortable with what you wearing, you'll look trendy and fashionable for sure.
Yami Gautam -
I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.
Patton Oswalt