Patrick Ness Quotes

We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

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• I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Great
  • Music
  • Daughter

• I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Great
  • Personality

• One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Best
  • Film
  • Leadership

• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • People
  • Politics
  • Seeing

• I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Different
  • Home
  • Energy

• The essence of a general's job is to assist in developing a clear sense of purpose to keep the junk from getting in the way of important things.

  

  Walter F. Ulmer
  • Important
  • Job
  • Purpose

• Everyone's path is really different, and you just have to be in the right place at the right time. 'The X Factor' gave me that chance I needed, that platform.

  

  Fleur East
  • Time
  • Different
  • Chance

• In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Kind
  • Fall
  • Boy

• I've always been fond of acoustic music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Music
  • Always
  • Fond

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• I would love to work with Martin Scorsese.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Work
  • Love
  • Would

• I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

  

  Kajol
  • People
  • Want
  • Film

• I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Think
  • Control
  • Doing

• In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Growth

• We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Way
  • Know
  • Christian

• The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Political
  • Black
  • Politics

• In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

  

  Edgar Degas
  • True
  • Painting
  • Idea

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Dream
  • Night
  • City

• We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

  

  Patrick Ness
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