Hamish Patterson Quotes & Sayings

I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control. — Gillian Anderson

People learn to shop for churches; there is no loyalty to the church. They're consumers being attracted to one product or another. I think it's sacrilege, to tell you the truth, it really is. — Eugene H. Peterson

- Which State Department, exactly, are we talking about?
- The one in Washington, D.C. — Tara Janzen

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity. — Amy Hempel

You anchor me without holding me down. You frighten me without threatening my future. You're unflinchingly devoted. I love you. — Courtney Milan

I don't want to get home from work and wonder if I could have done better if I didn't go out that night. What you're doing is going to go on the big screen and go down in history. — Seann William Scott

Maybe she had found everything the world had to offer her: a notion very like despair. — Joe Hill

The feeling swept over me that I was not born for a normal life at home among my people or in cities and houses — Hermann Hesse

I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose. — Diana Taurasi

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really. — Andrew Davies

A language is everything you do. — Margaret Atwood

Well," said Lestrade, "I've seen you handle a good many cases, Mr. Holmes, but I don't know that I ever knew a more workmanlike one than that. We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard. No, sir, we are very proud of you, and if you come down to-morrow, there's not a man, from the oldest inspector to the youngest constable, who wouldn't be glad to shake you by the hand. — Arthur Conan Doyle