T.R. Patrick Quotes

If you don't have 30 years to devote to social policy, don't get involved.

Secrecy is for losers.

Is there a connection between language and magic? Yes. Ten times yes. So much yes that it almost doesn't bear talking about. It's as pointless that arguing that the sun is hot.

I want my clothes to make you smile!

I had a lump on my face and had a big cancer thing removed.

If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.

Stories don’t always have happy endings.

I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong

Turkey is saying that it wants to preserve Sunni dominance in Mosul. Obviously, there, the Kurds, the Shia, the Iraqi government have their own agendas.

You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.

If you are ever going to move beyond where you stand at that moment you have to conjure a picture in your head of where you want to go.

The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.

Repent or be damned! If you have already repented, please disregard this notice.

Let's go tell everyone we meet that, when the American dream is at stake, you want Barack Obama in charge.

For too long, Democrats have been telling people what they want to hear. I'm going to tell you what I believe.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.

Caffeine helps a lot. That and a certain amount of isolation.

Stories were wild, wild animals and went off in directions you couldn't expect.

Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

War makes monsters out of men.

The truth is I've worked a lot of things people would consider shitty jobs but I've never really hated any of them.

Life is too short to waste on things that don't matter.

One of the things that always was Fall Out Boy was trying new things and kind of pushing ourselves in different directions.

It looks like I have a thing for dangerous sports, don't I?

Call them pros, call them mercenaries - but in fact they are just grown - up kids who have learned on the frozen creek or flooded corner lot that hockey is the greatest thrill of all.

Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

I've read stories that are set in a celebrity's house, and you know where it is and what it looks like and what's inside it, and that's not something I want anyone to know.

You know, it's always good to have seen a track before, just to kind of know where the little bumps are here and there, and just the general feel for the size.

The good thing about working on the books for 14 years before they hit the shelves is that I worked out most of the kinks long before they were published.

I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

The phrase "work-life balance" tells us that people think that work is the opposite of life. We should be talking about life-life balance.

But magic is like pizza: even when it's bad, it's pretty good.

How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you’ve got to do is find a way to live there.

What defines a relationship is the work that's involved to maintain it, and it's constantly changing.