Patrick Ness Quotes

Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

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• I tend to have a lot of jokes about ex-girlfriends. They always ask me if they will be the subject of a joke, and I always tell them they won't. Unless they do something crazy. They all tend to, so you know where that goes. There are no closed doors. The 'art' will suffer.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Art
  • Crazy
  • Doors

• Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.

  

  B. B. King
  • Work
  • She
  • Government

• I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Believe
  • Happiness
  • Sad

• It's my impression that I've done every job that I've been asked to do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Done
  • Job
  • Impression

• Because I'm a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Reality

• I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Party

• You never know what an artist is going to create next.

  

  Kesha

• I was a late bloomer. I wasn't a child performer.

  

  Christian Borle

• I've had some great examples in my career of how to do things the right way.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Great
  • Career

• We inadvertently keep oppressing Africans when we label them by an approximated color - and even when we confuse a specific socio-cultural group such as the Afro-Americans with Africans.

  

  Jens Martin Skibsted
  • Color

• Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Time
  • Tea

• I'm not really sure where it comes from, but every time I meet someone who says 'I really want to be an entrepreneur' but has no idea what they want to do, I really just think: 'This person is totally aimless.'

  

  Dustin Moskovitz
  • Time
  • Entrepreneur

• Awkward conversations are painful, but they're way easier than divorce, resentment, and heartbreak.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Divorce
  • Heartbreak

• Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

  

  Christian Dior

• I would make tea for Joni Mitchell or clean her car, anything to be in the studio and watch her work.

  

  Sheena Easton
  • Work
  • Car
  • Tea

• The people who were marching at Peggy O'Hara's funeral gave the impression they were associated with the INLA, which is supposed to be on ceasefire and to have decommissioned some of their weapons. I ask if they could have honoured her in a more dignified way.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Funeral

• Now voe me I can zing on my business abrode: Though the storm do beat down on my poll, There's a wife brighten'd vire at the end of my road, An' her love, voe the jay o' my soul.

  

  William Barnes
  • Soul
  • Storm
  • Beats

• But to be part of helping create a character and be a part of something from the beginning - the excitement of it - it doesn't get any better.

  

  Sarah Chalke
  • Character
  • Helping
  • Excitement

• 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
  • Time
  • True
  • Feeling

• The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Pure
  • Passes
  • Dirty Places

• Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Passes
  • Vanquished

• Midnight passes and I'm twenty-five days and a million years from becoming a man.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Passes