Michael Paterniti Quotes

When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.

Michael Paterniti

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• Google
• Otherwise
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• Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • House
  • Me
  • Kind

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• 'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.

  

  Edmund White
  • May
  • Death
  • Quality

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Now

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• When you go on an audition it's very frightening.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • You
  • Very
  • Audition

• I rode a shark once. I wouldn't recommend it. It was fun, but I thought I was going to get eaten the entire time! Nothing against sharks. I love sharks. I just don't think we are meant to ride them.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Think

• The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

  

  A. C. Benson
  • Life
  • Worst
  • Misfortunes

• If people are talking about you, that's great. You start making more money, that's great. You get to go to weird places, that's great. The music industry is weird, especially with the Internet. People are calling you all kinds of weird stuff, like 'jangly.'

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• As a 13-year-old girl, it was never my intention to be the center of world news.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Girl
  • News

• The Admiral says that he never beheld so fair a thing: trees all along the river, beautiful and green, and different from ours, with flowers and fruits each according to their kind, many birds and little birds which sing very sweetly.

  

  Christopher Columbus
  • Different
  • Beautiful
  • Green

• Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • World
  • Sleep

• On YouTube, when you have a big viral success with a song that isn't your own, the natural inclination for most YouTubers is to keep doing that. What you really should do is show people that you actually have substance and can write your own music.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
  • Music
  • Success

• Does any one know the number of illegal arms in the country?

  

  Khaleda Zia
  • Country

• I'm an optimist by nature, myself, I think.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Nature

• Experimental high energy physics research is a group effort. I have been very fortunate to have had outstanding students and colleagues who have made invaluable contributions to the research with which I have been associated.

  

  Jerome Isaac Friedman
  • High
  • Energy
  • Effort

• Just as men must give up economic control when their wives share the responsibility for the family's financial well-being, women must give up exclusive parental control when their husbands assume more responsibility for child care.

  

  Augustus Y. Napier
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Music
  • Future
  • Success

• I get the ideas from everything. Children sometimes think you have to have special experiences to write, but good writing brings out what's special in ordinary things.

  

  Laurence Yep
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Children

• if something goes wrong in his environment, a man tends to look outside himself first for the cause of the problem. According to research, this tendency is based partly on the male biological tendency to take action (versus introspection) and partly on the male ego, which encourages him to blame others and not take responsibility for his actions. Conversely, if something goes wrong in her environment, a woman will tend to look inside herself for the cause of the problem.

  

  Beverly Engel

• I am usually protective of my work, not showing it to anyone until it has been redrafted and polished.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Protective
  • Polished

• I'm never scared to ask a question or state the obvious, y'know.

  

  Estelle
  • Know
  • State
  • Scared

• When in my writing lair, I have no access to the Web. Otherwise, I'm like one of those lab rats on too much sugar. To compile my Google searches would be to see my sludgy, allusive brain at work.

  

  Michael Paterniti
  • Writing
  • Google
  • Otherwise