Patrick Ness Quotes
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.Patrick Ness
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
Fran Lebowitz -
The unlikely combination of potatoes and pasta does appear in some Italian recipes.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I tend not to wear ties very often. I'm usually in old stuff: Hermes or Marc Jacobs boots and jeans and a T-shirt and a leather jacket or a jean jacket.
Nate Berkus -
This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
Paracelsus -
My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.
Wanda Sykes -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
Fiona Apple -
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact.
Hal David -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.
Pablo Casals -
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
W. C. Fields -
The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
Ian Mcewan
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
Gary Lineker -
You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
Ralph Steadman -
I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.
Abel Ferrara -
There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
P. J. Harvey -
If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
Jack LaLanne
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I wouldn't play together with someone who likes to control everything like me.
Lenny Kravitz -
There was never any pressure on me to go into the business, but I was always aware of it. I'd go on the set with my father and he and my mother would always be singing.
Micky Dolenz The Monkees -
I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.
Ted Danson -
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott -
I came to Los Angeles only after filming 'A Good Day to Die Hard,' when I was cast in the independent movie 'Delirium.' Director Lee Roy Kunz was looking everywhere for a Russian actress. He saw my photos, and only then he learned where I starred before! Eventually, I spent several months in the U.S., and we made the film quickly.
Yuliya Snigir -
It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.
Patrick Ness