T.R. Patrick Quotes

If you ever want to see how small you are in the plan of God, just stand at the edge of an ocean.

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

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.

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.

Beer dulls a memory, brand sets it burning, but wine is the best for a sore heart's yearning.

I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.

Work will drive you crazy if you let it.

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 That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

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

Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.

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

Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer.

I sighed. ‘It doesn’t matter what we do. Money comes and goes.’ I shook my head. ‘It doesn’t matter and you know it doesn’t.

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!

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.

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

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.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out.

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis.

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

The steps aren’t enough. Feel the music.

As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.

Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.

We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.

I used to work in a record store. I'm kind of a record nerd.

Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.

The music business is one of a few places where everything you've heard about it seems entirely cliche, but it's true.

I'm really attracted to music that sort of toes that line between pop and avant-garde, that pushes the envelope of what you can get in a pop song.

I don't want to be George Lucas and go back after the fact.

Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.

Most producers get into it because they were just never handsome or charismatic or talented enough to be the star.

When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

I would love to hang out with Elvis Costello, to see what he's up to because he seems so fascinating to me.

I don't believe any genre of music can be unilaterally dismissed (aside from like, white-power music or something).

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word.

Theres no amount of money that makes you feel better when people think of you as a joke or a hack or a failure or ugly or stupid or morally empty.

Everything I've ever wanted to do, we've kinda done. Everything beyond this has been just the cherry on top. I've been so happy with the band, and we're so lucky and blessed to be able to do it.

I moved to L.A. and really didn't dig living there until I found places like Koreatown and Little Tokyo. I really like hanging out in the grocery stores and restaurants.

I'm a collector. I think it's great for everybody. Artists like it, they answer positively.

If an opportunity arises, then I won't use school as an excuse not to work.

Now that I've seen her, I can't stop seeing her.

I love to go shopping and see what catches my eye.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.