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Patricia C. Wrede

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PATRICIA C. WREDE The King and Queen did the best they could. They hired the most superior tutors and governesses to t...
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PATRICIA C. WREDE (In reply to the question, 'Would you like some suggestions for a plot for your next book?')
PATRICIA C. WREDE Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who...
PATRICIA C. WREDE Mendanbar took a deep breath. “You could stay here. At the castle, I mean. With me.” This wasn�...
PATRICIA C. WREDE That is certainly one way to look at the matter. There are others.
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PATRICIA C. WREDE Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.
PATRICIA C. WREDE I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon
PATRICIA C. WREDE Oliver has stated many times his dislike of hearing advice from his younger sister, so it is his own...
PATRICIA C. WREDE She who laughs last may not invariably laugh best, but she does laugh.
PATRICIA C. WREDE I'm sorry Finn. I'm a wooden-headed dummy.'
Don't be so hard on yourself,' said Finn. 'You're ...
SHANNON HALE Thinking about the bacon- the potential of bacon- gives me hope. Not all is lost if bacon isn't.
RICK YANCEY I like Patricia. I LOVE Patricia. Patricia makes COFFEE nervous.
YOU'VE GOT MAIL Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon saus...
TERRY JONES She probably had all the time in the world, Therese thought, probably did nothing all day but what s...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH The hare-brained chatter of irresponsible frivolity.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Mouse-brained fool
ERIN HUNTER How indifferent he was to Carol after all, Therese thought. She felt he didn't see her, as he someti...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I would just have to find a hog, slaughter it, butcher it, cure the meat, then fry it up. Thinking a...
RICK YANCEY And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS She knew what bothered her at the store...It was that the store intensified things that had always b...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Was it love or wasn't it that she felt for Carol? And how absurd it was that she didn't even know. S...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH You told me I smelled - like bacon."
"Well," he said evenly. "That's awkward.
MICHELLE HODKIN She thought of people she had seen holding hands in movies, and why shouldn't she and Carol?
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Those mothers with hereditary large pelvises were able to bear large-brained babies who because of t...
CARL SAGAN I'm looking for dollar/Canada to trade within the well-defined C$1.1370-C$1.15 range ahead of the ti...
JACK SPITZ [Patricia Heaton from] Everybody Loves Raymond ... Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania.
DAVID HUNT Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love as Einstein stated which is very t...
GARY F EVANS... What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with ...
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. The fumes produced by frying bacon contain carcinogens called nitrosamines. Though all meat may rele...
MICHAEL GREGER Oh you really are donkey-brained aren't you?
ANNE ROBINSON Thou large-brained woman and large-hearted man.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't ca...
PATRICIA GAFFNEY Well, c'mon, everyone is a Facebook addict!
CARLOS PENA, JR. All's well that carries on well
AMIT ABRAHAM Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.
ANON. Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the ...
ST. JOHN CHRYSOSTOM I'm all about the supplements. I take fish oil every single day, as well as vitamin D, magnesium...
VICTORIA JUSTICE And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have b...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH The C team played very well and the moved a lot. I was proud of the way they played.
COACH LORI BELL He's been well coached, in college as well as on our team, ... We all get together and help him out,...
DANNY CLARK Carol raised her hand slowly and brushed her hair back, once on either side, and Therese smiled beca...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I suppose it's something to do with her black-brained religion not to take care of the body.
EVELYN WAUGH Nimic nu-i mai rău pentru caracterul omului decât să fi mândru de faptele tale bune. Fie că te ...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Viața noastră e ca o călătorie pe pământ: prea ușoară și monotonă de-a lungul întinselor ...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Lumea nu merită sacrificiul de a trăi pentru ea, cu atât mai puțin de a muri.
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS Cauza necazurilor noastre nu se află în jilțul guvernului, ci în imediata apropiere, în trib, �...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS E greu să-ți imaginezi lumea fără un creator, dar prefer să nu-mi închipui că faptele oamenil...
LLOYD C. DOUGLAS You know the six degrees of Kevin Bacon?
TIM DORSEY Bacon. Let's talk about bacon. There's no meat more glorious than bacon. You can add it to p...
ROB MANUEL Then I place the blade next to the skine on my palm.
A tingle arced across my scalp. The flood...
PATRICIA MCCORMICK You can't give someone 10 runs; that's the bottom line. We didn't pitch extremely well, and [C-G] hi...
FRED BENCRISCUTTO Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach ...
GUIDO VAN ROSSUM Mmm, bacon.
NOEL JESSE HEIKKINEN Friendship is like a walk in the wood; you may not know the terrain too well or even know where you ...
JAACHYNMA N.E. AGU It smelled like heaven, like love, like home and family and Sunday mornings at her grandparents' hou...
TIFFANY REISZ It started the way so many good things do: with bacon.
PAULA GARNER And hey, bacon made everything better.
JENNIFER ESTEP My own plans are made. While I can, I sail east in the Dawn Treader. When she fails me, I paddle eas...
C.S. LEWIS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES Louis C. K. is one of my all time favorite standup comedians.
AUBREY PLAZA The crack-brained bobolink courts his crazy mate, Poised on a bulrush tipsy with his weight.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. She's been hitting the ball well all this week. She had a nice bunt down the third-base line. She ha...
BART CHANCE I couldn’t peel my eyes off her face or her body. Even if she had asked me not to follow her, I wo...
ANGELA RICHARDSON Almost anything can be improved with the addition of bacon.
JASPER FFORDE The narrow, no-nonsense skeptic is every bit as naive as the breezy-brained New Age believer.
TOM ROBBINS It's a prestigious award that recognizes the drive, dedication and entrepreneurial spirit of Patrici...
BILL MILES It's a two-headed monster between him and Abundio, ... It's just a good group of personalities and i...
BOB CASEY All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON It was saying, 'Eat all the beef and bacon and pork and butter and all this jazz that you want.' Peo...
JIM ANDERSON A 'C' effort at best. We didn't play well at all. We had some good stats and Justin ran the ball ama...
JOE AYOOB We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS [The fairy tale] stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of somethin...
C.S. LEWIS Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.
A. E. VAN VOGT Hours later there came a change. It began to grow light in the bus. The greyness outside the
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C.S. LEWIS She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their en...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Forget about the razzmataz of life,for death is still the common destination we are all headed for.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never fry bacon naked.
RAY PALLA Patricia Compton, you are great at what you do and your beautiful spirit added so much to our specia...
REAH AND PAUL I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all...
BILL HIRST Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afgh...
C. JOYBELL C. The smell nearly distracted me from my task, but no-I remained steadfast. Stiff upper lip, Watson! A...
G.S. DENNING The be-all and end-all of life should not be to get rich, but to enrich the world. -B. C. Forbes.
B. C. FORBES My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy...
WENDY FROUD Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons ...
PATRICIA BRIGGS All of these farms all over this county used to supply Staunton with home-cured bacon and ham. That ...
JOEL SALATIN I hope your bacon burns.
DIANA WYNNE JONES Basically, [it] saved our bacon.
JASON HAMLETT I always use my 'Holy Trinity' which is salt, olive oil and bacon. My motto is, 'bacon a...
ANNE BURRELL The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must b...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR No one wants to do it with a chick who smells like bacon."

Her brow creases. "Everybody ...
SARAH OCKLER They're sensational!
HARRY STYLES If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
ANUJ SOMANY While majority find business in berating the spoilt brat “Problem” for distressing and disturbin...
ANUJ SOMANY To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t...
GARY F EVANS... I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
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PATRICIA VELASQUEZ You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on t...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ There was a time when I used to live in Spain that it went really crazy with drugs and stuff like th...
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ It takes one person to give you a big chance.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Always work hard, be honest, and be proud of who you are.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
PATRICIA VELASQUEZ Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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PATRICIA SUN We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ig...
PATRICIA SUN When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we h...
PATRICIA SUN The discoveries of how we can grow and the insights we need to have really come from the inside out....
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PATRICIA SCHROEDER Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER You measure a government by how few people need help.
PATRICIA SCHROEDER The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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PATRICIA RIGGEN I am grateful that I'm working, but I also have to say I've worked really, really hard and h...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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PATRICIA RIGGEN There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
PATRICIA RIGGEN The idea that women compete or don't like each other or undermine each other or sabotage each ot...
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PATRICIA RIGGEN I think the three Mexican directors that came before me did a very good job in Hollywood because the...
PATRICIA RIGGEN I love getting people's opinion of what I'm doing.
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PATRICIA POLACCO When you come from a family of storytellers, you're doomed. You just have to tell stories.
PATRICIA POLACCO My stories are fundamentally about the love of family.
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PATRICIA POLACCO I used to say to my bubbe, 'Bubbe, is this story true?' And she'd say, 'Of course it...
PATRICIA POLACCO Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.
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PATRICIA POLACCO Be kind to one another. You may need each other when you are older.
PATRICIA POLACCO Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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PATRICIA NEAL I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.
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PATRICIA MARX I do not find the concept of consorting with unknown persons appealing.
PATRICIA MARX I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I ...
PATRICIA MARX I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alo...
PATRICIA MARX Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name ...
PATRICIA MARX Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
PATRICIA MARX For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
PATRICIA MARX I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and se...
PATRICIA MARX I write the shopping column. I think I've proven my superficiality.
PATRICIA MARX Being serious just makes me a little bit embarrassed.
PATRICIA MARX The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism.
PATRICIA MARX It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even fiv...
PATRICIA MARX Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of ...
PATRICIA MARX Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists cl...
PATRICIA MARX 'Couch surfing' refers to the practice of temporarily lodging with a stranger - free of char...
PATRICIA MARX Men still wear cologne, but I wish they wouldn't. No matter what you may believe, all men's ...
PATRICIA MARX One false word, one extra word, and somebody's thinking about how they have to buy paper towels ...
PATRICIA MARX New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just bec...
PATRICIA MARX Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, wha...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say,...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I never work from an outline, and often I don't know how the story will end.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and b...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN My mother, as a girl, had remembered this woman from Maine, someone who was part of the extended fam...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose thin...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I do...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I always doubted myself. I doubted the way I looked, my body, my voice - everything.
PATRICIA KAAS When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
PATRICIA KAAS People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
PATRICIA KAAS When you are 25 or even 30, you can just do things. When you get to 35, things are different. Time i...
PATRICIA KAAS I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after,...
PATRICIA KAAS Sometimes, I wake up and the skies are grey and everything's horrible.
PATRICIA KAAS Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our ent...
PATRICIA IRELAND