Patton Oswalt Quotes

I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

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• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Effort
  • Listen
  • Duck

• The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Together
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don't have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I've decided what to wear first.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Long
  • Night
  • Me

• People make mistakes. They say stupid things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Mistakes

• As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • People
  • Best
  • Emotional

• When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.

  

  Ira Glass
  • College
  • Body
  • Theory

• I think that our comfort is in our history.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • History
  • Think
  • Comfort

• Things are expensive, very expensive in Israel for many reasons. One of the reasons is our ports. It's a monopoly. They run very poorly. And we have ships that are stuck in the ocean for three or four days or a week, and all that cost is transferred to the products and the consumer.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Ocean
  • Week
  • Cost

• There's a fine line between playing through things and sitting out. I was always on the side of, 'I'm going to play through it.' It's probably good at times, bad at times, but for an athlete to always try to be there and play through things, from a teammate's perspective, it speaks volumes. Now that I look back, mentally it makes you tougher.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Play

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• I'm a homebody for sure. I do a lot of work at home.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Work
  • Home
  • Sure

• I overhaul myself for my roles. Sooner or later, I will get my due.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Myself
  • Will
  • Later

• I have wisdom of a 60-year-old. Also it takes a lot for me to respect a person, so when a person has a body of work behind him, it draws my respect.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Wisdom

• We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Culture
  • Logic
  • Islamic

• Had I been a dictator, I would still be governing.

  

  Augusto Pinochet

• Whatever happens to me from now on, I can't ever imagine wanting to distance myself from The X Factor, or having a bad word to say about it, because the show opened doors for me that had never opened before.

  

  Leona Lewis
  • Bad
  • Distance

• Perhaps the meaning of all human activity lies in the artistic consciousness, in the pointless and selfless creative act? Perhaps our capacity to create is evidence that we ourselves were created in the image and likeness of God?

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • God
  • Lies
  • Selfless

• Every day I have many choices to make about who I want to be.

  

  Amanda Lindhout
  • Choices

• What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Giving
  • Needs
  • Thanks

• Sometimes there's something that you need a few takes to get it and if it takes 15 takes, it takes 15 takes. It really depends.

  

  Nick Jonas Jonas Brothers
  • Need
  • Depends

• I loved the whole New Romantic, New Wave thing... New Order, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, Gary Numan, Blancmange, Yazoo.

  

  John Grant
  • Romantic

• A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Heart
  • Culture
  • Education

• I know how my body operates differently from what it did when it was 30 and when it was 20. As unhealthy as I am, I'm weirdly aware of exactly how my body functions.

  

  Patton Oswalt