Patrick Marber Quotes
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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I am a just man.
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Even city people have ancestors who had their hands in the dirt.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
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Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.
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I never got to see the circus... I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.
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Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.
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Put out great music, and that's that.
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What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
