D.B. Patterson Quotes

I wouldn’t trust you if you were the last life raft leaving the Titanic.”-max

Pain is a message, and you can choose to ignore that message.

He landed 10 feet below with a sickening crunch-i'm guessing his enhancements didn't allow him to bounce back up like a ball. we call that a design flaw.

We is always so much better than I.

Life can be like walking on a high wire. Falling seems a tiny misstep away.

Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.

You're just here for the ride. For the incredible, indescribable Maximum Ride. --Max's Voice

What are you guys doing? If you anted me to take a shower, all you had to do was pay me ten bucks, like you usually do

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

I blame Jeb for letting you be such a smart aleck.” I stared at her. “I blame you for altering my DNA! I mean, I have wings, lady! What were you thinking?

Bizarre! That's the only word I can use to describe life sometimes. Just freaking bizarre.

Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.

Now that we were alone,i was self-conscious and cranky again.Why had i wanted to stay?if i had been programmed to want to be with dylan,heads were gonna roll,i promise you that.

I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!

But then we have to leave, have to. It's always been that way, and it will always be that way, Jane. That's just.. how it works

and I think that everything in life is kind of unreal, isn't it?

Congratulations. The fact that you're reading this means you've taken one giant step closer to surviving until your next birthday.

Once a bird kid, always a bird kid. - maximum ride series

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

My choices were to either give in and let them kill all of us or fight back with everything I had. I chose the second one, ’cause I’m just funny that way.

There's nothing more dangerous than than someone trying to act for the greater good.

Have you ever been to Colorado?" I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?

Time to die. -Evil Angel

Why, the little Voice inside my head, of course. You mean you don't have one? I did.

Listen up,” I said urgently. “It’s time to round up your gear. I’m gonna check in with Patrick, and then we’re getting the flock out of here.” Ha-ha.

Fear is not the answer, not ever.

guess they forgot to program us with any respect for authority." "well, I have a highly developed sense of irony.

I vill destroy de snickers bar!" Gazzy(The Gas Man)

Why would you let [the TV audiences] build a habit of going to the cable networks? So I think they've obviously smartened up now, and they're not giving the summer to cable anymore.

A lot of things that people think are risky, I don't think are risky. I don't get all that. I think what was really risky for network television was to let cable television to take the summers.

My thing is when we're doing a movie or TV show, I just want to go in and look at it and go, "That was great."

When you go out to Hollywood, it's like, "Here's the book. It is what it is. It'll always stay the same."

Your destiny isn't defined. You create it

Get deep with me. Set your thoughts free.

I keep a lot to myself. Thinking a million things while speaking ten things.

Yeah, I can see why beautiful cars are compared to beautiful women... they usually belong to someone else.

The road does not always bring out the best in people.

I feel like, as a people, we're sort of stumbling in the dark right now.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

I've always thought preaching to the converted is just kind of futile and silly.

Racism is a worldwide problem.

A lot of the music that I grew up loving has a really political bent to it.

I dislike Bush as much as probably anybody on earth could, but having said that... It's not like I'm going to change anybody's mind.

I never want to be that guy spouting off my political views. I mean, they're pretty well known, and it certainly comes out.

It's hard being part of a married couple in a band.

Songwriting can be cathartic, but then you just keep it private. If you're going to play out and have other people listen to you, then you need to make sure there's some point to what you're saying.

Problem was that we could make things worse but we couldn't make anything better.

The business of writing is empathising with situations that aren't your own.

I was 29 when I wrote my first novel. But I was 45 when I quit for good. I was a 16-year overnight success.

The manuscript you submit [should not] contain any flaws that you can identify - it is up to the writer to do the work, rather than counting on some stranger in Manhattan to do it for him.