Patrick Ness Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
-
Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
-
The first movie I really clicked with was 'Die Hard' when I was 6 years old, which is crazy that I was watching it that young. That was the one that made me want to become an actor.
-
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
-
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
-
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
-
A cheat day for me, the first thing that I crave, I'll eat. That's my rule. So if I wake up and I want pancakes, I'm gonna eat pancakes. If I want a cheeseburger for lunch or for dinner, I'm gonna eat it. If I want fries, I'm gonna eat the fries.
-
I had all the fame anyone could want, and I ran away from it.
-
There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
-
If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
-
I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
-
Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.
-
Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
-
I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
-
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
-
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.
-
Virtual reality is inevitably going to become mainstream - it's only a question of how good it needs to be before the mainstream is willing to use it.
-
With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.
-
If we were writing what the fans wanted to see, Betty and Jughead would be the most linear, monotonous narrative of all time.
-
It's not that I don't want to do commercial films, but if my part is just to look pretty, I'm not up for it. I'd do a role that expresses something. It's not that I don't want to look good, but give me a part where I have scope to perform.
-
It has something to do with the facts and the law and who the judges are. So I think lawyers sometimes exaggerate their role in winning and losing. Lawyers do have a role, and a major role, but they're not the only players in this game.
-
Faith with proof is no faith at all.
-
You went up a girl and came down a woman.
