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

• 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

• If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything.

  

  Darryl Pinckney
  • Hope

• From the beginning, the series has been story driven - I began with a story idea - but research feeds it.

  

  Jean M. Auel
  • Beginning

• One of my heroes is Mr. Sidney Poitier. In his autobiography, "The Measure of a Man," he talks about the difference between being a great person and being a great actor. I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second. I believe that acting is a talent while being a great person encompasses so much more: being a good father, a good husband and the ability to show compassion for others.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Believe
  • Father
  • Husband

• The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • First
  • Selling
  • Restaurant

• And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none? Only those whose accumulations are stained with dishonesty and whose immoral methods have given them a distorted view of business, society and government. Accumulating by conscious frauds more money than they can use upon themselves, wisely distribute or safely leave to their children, these denounce as public enemies all who question their methods or throw a light upon their crimes.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • World
  • Light
  • Enemy

• Through silence only the good messages go unheard.

  

  Brian Patten
  • Silence
  • Messages