T.R. Patrick Quotes

You can't totally rebel, otherwise you have to go live on your own, on a desert island. It's as simple as that.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

Every parent wants to see their kids excel.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth?

Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.

We understood one another better before ever I opened my mouth

My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.

Every new friend is a new adventure... ...the start of more memories.

I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

If I wrote a musical it wouldn't be about me. Although I do some magic, so it would probably be about a magician who appeared and re-appeared all over the place.

Food is better medicine than drugs

I love digital, but the only problem is less intimacy. People look at the screen right away. Before, nobody saw the picture before you saw the final picture. There was more privacy in a way.

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.

The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided.

There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

The American Revolution was the grand operation, which seemed to be assigned by the Deity to the men of this age in our country, over and above the common duties of life

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.

There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

The theater is reaching as many different demographics as it can now.

I won the only duel I ever lost.

This is how deeply rooted stories are, folks. We crave them before we can walk, and we start telling them before we can talk.

There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller's being.

Dawn was coming. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts.

But sometimes you have to wait for an answer to come to you. Especially when the questions are difficult ones.

Faith never stays put. It's always challenging always questioning. That's what makes it real.

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face.

Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and decide to pay a visit.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.

She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.

All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast.

The future is about emotion: reactions to events are usually far more important than the events themselves.

...if I have ever met someone without a single shadow on their heart, it was surely a child too young for speaking.

We got nominated for a Grammy, that was really crazy, and I was sitting there and Stevie Wonder was on stage and I remember thinking "Wow, I really need to take [singing] more seriously!"