Patrick Ness Quotes

Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

Patrick Ness

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• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Working

• On the Web, we can be whoever we wish to be, editing the face we show to others in ways that aren't possible in physical space. We can also fine-tune the complexity and depth of our interactions and relationships.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Wish
  • Space
  • Relationships

• I am always locked in my design studio.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Design
  • Studio
  • Locked

• It doesn't sound too good to say I am the son of a landowner, so let us rather say I am the grandson of exploited Galician peasants.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Son
  • Grandson
  • Landowner

• I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Fun
  • Water
  • Sports

• The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Player

• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• We have a world minus a whole lot of talent that has stepped out of contention for leadership, only because they don't want to seem too aggressive, too smart, unattractive, or too male.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • World
  • Smart
  • Leadership

• When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Team
  • Worry
  • Learn

• Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I don't see a superstar out there. I don't see Georges St-Pierre coming back.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • See
  • Back
  • Superstar

• Reading is a huge part of life.

  

  Daniel Curtis Lee
  • Life
  • Reading
  • Part

• I came from a Hindi medium school... the principal felt that I would not fit into an English medium college. Though I was top in my class in school, and I got admission in other colleges, but I really wanted to study in St. Xavier's.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Start

• I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Together
  • Weird
  • Knife

• Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • People
  • Life
  • True

• The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Anger

• All too often, legacy management practices reflexively perpetuate the past - by over-weighting the views of long-tenured executives, by valuing conformance more highly than creativity and by turning tired industry nostrums into sacred truths.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Long
  • Past
  • Creativity

• As when in Cymbrian plaine An heard of bulles, whom kindly rage doth sting, Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, And fill the fieldes with troublous bellowing.

  

  Edmund Spenser

• I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • Hate
  • Place
  • Grave

• When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over her.

  

  Frank Miller
  • Beautiful
  • Running
  • Hand

• And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Place
  • Same

• Everything that's happened has brought me here, to this place, with this knife in my hand, and something worth saving.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Hand
  • Place
  • Happened