T.R. Patrick Quotes

Stubborn opposition to proposals often has no other basis than the complaining question, 'Why wasn't I consulted?'

But sometimes the best help a person can find is helping someone else.

Only a fool worries over what he can’t control.

"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit was tossed.

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

When I got to the first tee on the first day, to hear the cheers, it was like all the oxygen got sucked out. It was hard to pull the club back.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

I regret not dancing more, just cutting loose on the dance floor. I still admire those who don't care much about what others think of them.

I love making movies, but there's nothing like being in front of an audience.

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep.

I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.

I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender."

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

I love physical stuff. I love circusy, weird, breathing fire and bucket-listy things.

On MTV, the dialogue can be a little darker, more interesting and edgy... the animation is just phenomenal. It's a CGI program that's doing all the animation.

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.

The sensation of falling into the past is not unlike that of coming home for the holidays.

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

Babies laughing is like opium.

Never mind manoeuvres, always go at them.

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.

The best lies about me are the ones I told.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Sorry Mr. Yipes, sir, she won't budge!' Put your back into it, man, give it all you've got!' Bang! Bang! Bang!

Feel what the wave is doing, then accept its energy.

If bringing down the wall would require you to fly, you must believe you can fly. Otherwise, when the decisive moment comes, you will surely discover you ahve no wings.

My mom raised me with the idea of doing public service, and I definitely want to go in that direction. But I also want to follow in my dad's entrepreneurial footsteps.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

Redemption implies that your self worth comes at the end. I think it's there from the start. If it's your core values, it's there from day one.

This is one of the reasons we need to transition: people can't validate an identity they can't see.

My mother's nickname for me is Positive Patrick. I like to live up to that title.

Softball is what old men play to try to feel young again.

In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.

When you love something, you have to make sure it loves you back, or you'll bring about no end of trouble chasing it.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

I can't count the men who have tried to seduce me away from my virtue by teaching me how to defend it.

She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.

...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

It's hard to be wrongfully accused, but it's worse when the people looking down on you are clods who have never read a book or traveled more than twenty miles from the place they were born.

There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.

Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism, said the monster.

No hard feelings about that time in the Crucible when you mixed my salts and I was nearly blind for a day. No. No, really, drink up!

Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.

I wanted so badly for there to be more. I ached for there to be more than my crappy little life.' He shakes his head. 'And there was more. I just couldn't see it.

We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.

I do this so you cannot help but hear. a wise man views a moonless night with fear.

Yesterday was the first day of the rest of your life . . . and you messed it up again.