The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each pro...
PATRICK DEWITT Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family me...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
PATRICK DEWITT As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don&#...
PATRICK DEWITT I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am ...
PATRICK DEWITT I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
PATRICK DEWITT I've been surprised at how much an unknown like myself can accomplish just by reaching out to pe...
PATRICK DEWITT I heard somewhere that whenever you write a book, people will ask you One Question about it over and...
PATRICK DEWITT I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid ...
PATRICK DEWITT I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too ...
PATRICK DEWITT 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more...
PATRICK DEWITT My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it d...
PATRICK DEWITT When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and desig...
PATRICK DEWITT The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know...
PATRICK DEWITT My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
PATRICK DEWITT After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly l...
PATRICK DEWITT I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good p...
PATRICK DEWITT I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur...
PATRICK DEWITT I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the...
PATRICK DEWITT I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the ...
PATRICK DEWITT I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.
DEWITT BODEEN Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was play...
JOYCE DEWITT The bathtub was invented in 1850 and the telephone in 1875. In other words, if you had been living i...
BILL DEWITT We've shown the allocation of payroll across the team to be been sound. We won 100 and 105 games wit...
BILL DEWITT We went through a long negotiating process.
BILL DEWITT We've had a good run, no question. We've been fortunate too. It's hard to be a winning team.
BILL DEWITT We felt it was an investment in the franchise, and it would enhance not only 1997 but also future ye...
BILL DEWITT We control our destiny because we will own 50 percent of the station. We can do more Cardinal-orient...
BILL DEWITT Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depres...
DEWITT BODEEN Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment,...
DEWITT CLINTON Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's w...
JOYCE DEWITT Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite su...
JOYCE DEWITT When grilling, I like really good sirloin steak. I use three peppers: green, white, and black in a c...
DAVE DEWITT Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I wa...
JOYCE DEWITT If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore.
JOYCE DEWITT Ethically and morally, public safety is a responsibility of the elected officials. Disasters start a...
DEWITT SAGENDORPH When pepper is ground, it oxidizes and loses its oils. It has no pungency. If you buy ground pepper ...
DAVE DEWITT I'm not much of a talker. And he was in no position to say anything to me.
DEWITT DRISCOLL You can freeze them. This prevents any oxidation.
DAVE DEWITT A big hit was strawberries with black pepper.
DAVE DEWITT I think there can be some give and take on this.
BOB DEWITT I think we have to maintain some areas that are more rural in nature.
BOB DEWITT My concern here with the pending strike is the polarization and the lesson that's left with the kids...
BOB DEWITT Most of them just don't want to take math and geometry and the other courses to get a degree. They w...
MIKE DEWITT We also offer model plans as a guidance tool to help towns modernize their plans and keep them up to...
DEWITT SAGENDORPH Sometimes the planning process is more valuable than the actual document itself. It brings those peo...
DEWITT SAGENDORPH I went to bed the first night knowing I had to win or else that was it. And I also knew it was again...
DEWITT DRISCOLL My whole sophomore year, as a student and as an athlete, was horrible. I had no energy and I had a l...
DEWITT DRISCOLL If he didn't before, he does now.
DEWITT DRISCOLL Everything feels great. Our training this year has been phenomenal. The coaches have done an amazing...
DEWITT DRISCOLL It was borderline embarrassing. We're definitely looking for some kind of redemption to change thing...
DEWITT DRISCOLL In my five years of being here, this has probably been the best togetherness we've had on our team. ...
DEWITT DRISCOLL I guess it was all my coaches. They just taught us to finish what you started. It feels great to sum...
COOPER DEWITT That kid was the toughest kid I faced all year.
COOPER DEWITT When grilling, I like really good sirloin steak. I use three peppers: green, white and black in a co...
DAVE DEWITT My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought...
HELEN DEWITT Some people make headlines while others make history.
PHILIP ELMER-DEWITT You still whispered you would not die.Yet in the nights I heard you cryLike a whipped child. . . .
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS It's not just what you spend on the major-league payroll. In the last year we've purchased a Double-...
BILL DEWITT JR Before we drained out one another's forceWith lies, self-denial, unspoken regretAnd the sick eyes th...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS I haven't read one book about
A book or memorized one plot,
Or found a mind I did not doubt,...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Of all things, only we
have power to choose that we should die;
nothing else is free
in ...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Sweet beast, I have gone prowling,
a proud rejected man
who lived along the edges
catch ...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Someone will have to weed and spread
The young sprouts. Sprinkle them in the hour
When shado...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS You still whispered you would not die.
Yet in the nights I heard you cry
Like a whipped chil...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS You must call up every strength you own
And you can rip off the whole facial mask.
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS I happened to find
Your picture. That picture. I stopped there cold,
Like a man raking piles...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Before we drained out one another's force
With lies, self-denial, unspoken regret
And the si...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS And you, whiner, who wastes your time
Dawdling over the remorseless earth,
What evil, what u...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS This is one of my favorite places. Some of the quirks of the design create opportunity for much more...
BILL DEWITT JR It's the way we traditionally do (payroll). That way we aren't caught short. By our calculations, we...
BILL DEWITT JR We're big payers. We've seen some positive results come of it. There weren't as many teams looking t...
BILL DEWITT JR We made an investment that hasn't realized a return yet.
BILL DEWITT JR All we can do is go by facts. Others can choose to disagree about the nature of the business. Frankl...
BILL DEWITT JR It's a matter of sitting down and getting a deal worked out. I expect in two or three weeks it will ...
BILL DEWITT JR It's much better to get here and have a shot at going all the way. We've been here a few times. Last...
BILL DEWITT JR Time marches on. We've got a wonderful new facility under construction and it's Busch Stadium - it's...
BILL DEWITT JR They wear their godhead lightly.They look out from their hill and say,To themselves, "We have nowher...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS And you, whiner, who wastes your timeDawdling over the remorseless earth,What evil, what unspeakable...
WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Cecile was teaching in Berkeley and I was [at Livermore]. He probably had, could have had, some infl...
BRYCE S. DEWITT The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ...
PATRICK LENCIONI Teamwork is a strategic decision.
PATRICK LENCIONI How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to ...
PATRICK SWAYZE Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sen...
PATRICK LENCIONI Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. ...
PATRICK LEAHY We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i...
PATRICK LEAHY Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America&#...
PATRICK LEAHY I'm a gun owner.
PATRICK LEAHY Judiciary is where my passion is.
PATRICK LEAHY You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
PATRICK LEAHY The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug...
PATRICK LEAHY A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan...
PATRICK LEAHY Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why thin...
PATRICK LEAHY Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th...
PATRICK KAVANAGH In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
PATRICK KAVANAGH Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie...
PATRICK KAVANAGH The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...
PATRICK KAVANAGH The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss...
PATRICK KAVANAGH What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
PATRICK KAVANAGH A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and tal...
PATRICK KAVANAGH In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti...
PATRICK KAVANAGH How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
PATRICK KAVANAGH I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman...
PATRICK KAVANAGH There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
PATRICK KANE If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
PATRICK KANE I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get...
PATRICK KANE It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l...
PATRICK KANE I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ...
PATRICK KANE When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ...
PATRICK KANE If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p...
PATRICK KANE We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
PATRICK KANE I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha...
PATRICK KANE Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin...
PATRICK KANE I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
PATRICK KANE There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
PATRICK KANE I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
PATRICK KANE I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
PATRICK KANE I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i...
PATRICK KANE The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h...
PATRICK KANE Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li...
PATRICK KANE I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.
PATRICK KANE I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ...
PATRICK KANE Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you alway...
PATRICK KANE Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
PATRICK KANE My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a...
PATRICK KANE It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
PATRICK KANE Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ...
PATRICK GEDDES Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
PATRICK GEDDES I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul...
PATRICK FUGIT Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d...
PATRICK FUGIT There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am...
PATRICK FUGIT If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz...
PATRICK FUGIT It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like...
PATRICK FUGIT The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K...
PATRICK FUGIT One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B...
PATRICK FUGIT I'm not a very fast-paced person.
PATRICK FUGIT I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
PATRICK FUGIT