Patentable Ideas Quotes & Sayings

I realized that the childish impression I had always had of my father, as Just Lawgiver, was entirely wrong. We were utterly dependent on this man, who was not only deluded and ignorant, but incompetent in every way. What was more, I knew that my mother was incapable of standing up to him. It was like walking into the cockpit of an airplane and finding the pilot and co-pilot passed out drunk in their seats. And standing outside the Lyceum, I was struck with a black, incredulous horror, which in fact was not at all unlike the horror I had felt at twelve, sitting on a bar stool in our sunny little kitchen in Plano. Who is in control here? I thought, dismayed. Who is flying this plane? — Donna Tartt

Lewis actually does make a hot girl. — Nicole Smith

Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend. — Margaret Thatcher

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed. — Tony Robbins

Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It's just too bad. — Jincy Willett

Do you know how long it takes to charm people from Maine? They're uptight white people coated with a hard exterior made from other uptight white people. — Joel Stein

of ocean, around the North Pole there is an ocean surrounded by a near-unbroken — Robert D. Kaplan

I went to Montreal. My first gig went very badly. They just weren't laughing at anything. I found out they were a load of Christians, and it was a gig to raise money for a new church roof. — Allan Carr

I would be daft to say I wouldn't like to try Hollywood. But my main dream is to keep working. Keep loving what I am doing. — Siobhan Finneran

Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say. — Miranda Hart