T.R. Patrick Quotes

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

You can't be gone. I need you here, with me. What am I going to do without you?

Hespe's mouth went firm. She didn't scowl exactly, but it looked like she was getting all the pieces of a scowl together in one place, just in case she needed them in a hurry.

That is like throwing two virgins into a bed. Enthusiasm, passion, and ignorance are not a good combination. Someone is likely to get hurt.

When you're doing a play you get to go full speed ahead, all night, in front of an audience. It's a roller-coaster ride, responding to other actors, it feeds you.

Small facts lead to great knowing.

We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.

Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

I didn't win prom king. By that point, I'd quit sports except for soccer, so I was really just a theater guy. I totally lost to the captain of the football team.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.

Close your mouth, E'lir Kvothe, or I will feel obliged to put some vile tonic in it.

Somebody can paint with a fine brush like Monet and do millions of little dots or somebody can splatter it up there like Kandinsky or Jackson Pollock and go "Yep, that's art." That's okay.

Questions are a burden to others; answers are a prison for oneself.

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

Oh dear me - it's too late to do anything but accept you and love you - but when you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once!

I wish I had stayed and finished my career here in New York.

I believe I was impatient with unintelligent people from the moment I was born: a tragedy - for I am myself three-parts a fool.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I became slightly disillusioned, but in a really good way that enabled me to realize that the music was the most important thing, and that the rest of it is total bullshit.

This means a lot. I'm being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career.

And it feels like, finally.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

I'll find you- Keep calling for me, Viola- Cuz here I come.

I need to stop carving out four-hour chunks to do random things and go home and watch my children grow up.

I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.

Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

Stories are the wildest things of all. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Benedict Cumberbatch is not only the best name in show business, it's also the response you get when you ask John Travolta to pronounce Ben Affleck.

if one of us falls, we all fall

All things to all people is nothing to everyone.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

We are more than the parts that form us.

My eye, though, is set on Miley [Cyrus].

When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

I know that, in hockey, the object of the game is simple in that you have to get the puck into the net. With figure skating, it's not as simple, and there is a ton of work that goes into it.

In the next decade we plan to create the first gender balance engineering school in Africa. We believe women should be part of the solution.

The King has degenerated into a tyrant and forfeits all rights to his subjects' obedience.

For me it is really important to have a story with blood in the veins, there are bad tempers and good tempers.

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?

I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

I like most of the Humphrey Bogart movies because they had to act then, and they acted very well. Edward G. Robinson is probably the best actor I've ever seen on the movies.

Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated.

Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure