Patrick Monahan Quotes

My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.

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• I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Looking
  • Against
  • Phone

• I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Money
  • Justice
  • Progress

• Desperation is the perfume of the young actor. It's so satisfying to have gotten rid of it. If you keep smelling it, it can drive you crazy. In this business a lot of people go nuts, go eccentric, even end up dead from it. Not my plan.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Time
  • Opportunity
  • Own

• We conclude that, simultaneously with the organization of the colleges, there should be at Santa Cruz an organization by disciplines, whose units would have a voice in appointments and promotions, in course of programs, and in the allocation of funds for research.

  

  Abraham Robinson
  • Voice
  • Organization
  • Research

• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Beginning
  • Wonderful
  • Just

• If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Life
  • Women
  • Education

• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Easy
  • Started
  • Getting

• I actually studied literature at university, so I'm much more of an arts-based person, but I remember I actually did enjoy physics because you got to do weird experiments. I remember we did this thing with static where we all had to put our hands on this static ball to see that your hair would all stand on end.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Remember
  • Hair
  • Weird

• I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Think
  • Health
  • Better

• I consider myself a little weak.

  

  Lamar Odom
  • Myself
  • Little
  • Weak

• This is one Hart that you will not leave in San Francisco.

  

  Gary Hart
  • You
  • Leave
  • San Francisco

• Be very nervous of the shaky hands.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Hands
  • Very
  • Nervous

• We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show;

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Moving
  • Sun
  • Magic

• Dangerous is a people's voice charged with wrath.

  

  Aeschylus
  • People

• The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Life
  • Country
  • Fashion

• I'll scroll through Instagram, but I have to take Internet breaks.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches

• In most every business, you learn by doing. The apprenticeship model is much more effective than the classroom for cultivating entrepreneurs.

  

  Andrew Yan
  • Business
  • Model

• The attitude of, 'I will never self-publish,' coming from any author, indicates that they have never been in a position where it is their only option.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Attitude
  • Author
  • Option

• Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Thinking
  • Best
  • Wise

• Just because I front the band or we play bigger stages now, it doesn't mean we somehow suddenly changed the way we approach things. We all still view what we do as indie and alternative in terms of how we execute it, even if the actual music we make is more pop than our previous projects.

  

  Lauren Mayberry Chvrches
  • Music
  • Band

• My mother, she was able to swim through planets and turn them into whatever she wanted - they didn't have to be what we know them to be. So she actually had Jupiter in her hair, when she was talking to me.

  

  Patrick Monahan Train
  • Mother
  • Planets
  • Swim