Brian Patten Quotes

Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

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• I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.

  

  Gary Speed
  • Want
  • Football
  • Leave

• Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Hate
  • Deserved
  • Paul McCartney

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Story
  • Fiction
  • Line

• Anybody can leap off a building.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Building
  • Anybody
  • Leap

• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Advice

• Injecting some confusion stabilizes the system.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• There's more than one way to skin a cat. But from the cat's perspective, they all suck. 2.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Perspective
  • Cat

• The saints, many of them women, warred with themselves as well as God. The body has its own animal urges, just as there are attractions and repulsions in sex that modern liberalism cannot face.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • God
  • Women
  • Sex

• Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Money
  • Value

• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Pretty
  • Attention
  • Serious

• I did an interview where I was asked for the best advice I'd been given. I couldn'€™t think of anything, so I read from the back of a packet of Swan Vestas matches by the phone: 'Keep in a dry place, keep away from children and strike gently away from the body.' They'd written it up without any sense of irony.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Up
  • Children
  • Advice

• I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• Business development is a part of M&A - we identify signals in the market, whether its trends or disruptive technology, and bring them back and address the opportunities. I have three levers I can pull - partnerships, acquisitions, or investments.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Business
  • Technology

• As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

  

  Mark Shields

• My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?

  

  Billy Wilder
  • Up
  • Aunt

• To me, this was an oxymoron, doing a painting of a dancer. Dancers are always moving.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Moving
  • Painting

• When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

  

  Fuzzy Zoeller
  • Family
  • Game
  • Black

• I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Fun
  • Like
  • Have Fun

• People who stand near the water in the darkness are either lovers or poets. Or else ... one of that great gray number who've simply had it -- who throw in their hand and won't play anymore.

  

  Wolfgang Borchert
  • People
  • Water
  • Lovers

• We owe it to the American people to take our time to be sure the nominee will uphold their most basic and fundamental rights. The public demands this from the process, and deserve no less.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Earth
  • Running
  • Fall

• Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

  

  Brian Patten
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