Patrick Ness Quotes
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
Patrick Ness
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
Basil Bunting
Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work.
Gary Paulsen
I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
Kate Moss
Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
Carice van Houten
It's such a private thing - 'my process' - I can just say that the work that I do is like therapy between me and the character.
Kirsten Dunst
My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
Karin Slaughter
I don't have time to worry about who I admire or who I identify with.
Pat Nixon
George W. Bush was a silver spoon dolt with no record to speak of other than bankruptcy and selling tropical plants, and we let him sail into the White House, but Barack talks about religious fundamentalism and guns being prevalent in poor areas, and we roast him for weeks?
Adam McKay
Because if you didn’t speak your truth, there was always something that would speak it for you that much louder.
Pat Cadigan
I don't know how much time passes with us just lying there, just feeling that the other is really there, really true, really alive, feeling the safety of him, his weight against mine, the roughness of his fingers touching my face, his warmth and his smell and the dustiness of his clothes, and we barely speak...
Patrick Ness
