Patrick deWitt Quotes

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

Patrick deWitt

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• I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Great
  • Live
  • City

• I'm a journalist and author. I make my living by finding things out and writing about them.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Writing
  • Author
  • Living

• There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Times
  • Penalty
  • Those

• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Music
  • Never
  • Bedroom

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Look
  • Down
  • Heights

• It seems that if you put people on paper and move them through time, you cannot help but talk about ethics, because the ethical realm exists nowhere if not here: in the consequences of human actions as they unfold in time, and the multiple interpretive possibility of those actions.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Help

• To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Home
  • Guest
  • New Years

• Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Child
  • Old
  • Bottom

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Up
  • House
  • Player

• Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Man
  • Political
  • Control

• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Government
  • Myself
  • Without

• In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

  

  Samuel Hopkins
  • Kind
  • Find
  • Slavery

• I am sure it does not hurt that Mitt Romney is my dad. I'm sure it's opened a lot of doors for me. But I think I've been pretty effective once I've gotten through the door at doing a pretty good job.

  

  Tagg Romney
  • Job
  • Dad
  • Effective

• It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.

  

  Kaskade
  • House
  • Interesting
  • Chicago

• It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Opportunity
  • Negative
  • Ridiculous

• Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Mind
  • Tasks
  • Usual

• If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours … In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Live
  • Success

• I think we are all interested in end-times ideas and also in the current climate that we are all living in, where money is a little harder to come by, things continue to get expensive; gas prices are not too far from people's heads. There are more and more people. Human society's going to have real problems.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • People
  • Real
  • Money

• No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I'd settle down.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Family
  • Fun
  • Thought

• More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Live
  • Society
  • Turning