T.R. Patrick Quotes

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm.

Because he had nothing to hide, he did perhaps appear to have forfeited a little of his strength. But that is the irony of honesty.

For me the really cool parts of being an author don't have anything to do with getting onto a bestseller list.

Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.

[Moses] probably said to himself, 'Must stop or I shall be getting silly.' That is why there are only ten commandments.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

Lillian Gish may be a charming person, but she is not Ophelia. She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

Tallulah [Bankhead] is always skating on thin ice. Everyone wants to be there when it breaks.

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let no hand, hold you down.

I have laid my cheek upon the earth and felt it my mother's bosom.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

Part of being human is having a sense of humor.

I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.

Marriage is a wonderful thing.

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.

Mike and Harvey finally consummate things, a great cliffhanger

Jack, you've debauched my sloth.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

Im sick of making bloody history.

A proponent of the big bang theory, at least if he is an atheist, must believe that the matter of the universe came from nothing and by nothing.

...remind yourself that the only thing you can truly control is you - and your reaction to what the world throws at you.

Winning was such as confidence boost, and fashion is a lot about confidence.

If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

Everything that happens in Iraq affects countries outside.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

You are keeping the possibility [of peace] open. No wise leader would do anything less

All the beautiful things in this world are lies. They count for nothing in the end.

No,' Ben says, 'but I believe it. I believe it for you. And that's why it's hope.

For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.

How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave it a moment's hard thought. "A meat pie, or a fruit pie?

We're blessed on 'How I Met Your Mother' to feel like we're doing a bit of a funny playlet everyday.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

...That it's making a dare to the world and when has the world ever let us win a dare?" ~pg 423

The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

We can save the world," I say, trying to smile. "You and me.

There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.

One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

The only real payoff for leadership is eternal.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

As exciting, difficult, and memorable as our past can be, there comes a time when we have to get on with living.

You said we all want there to be more than this! Well, there's always more than this. There's always something you don't know.

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason.