Patiner Quotes & Sayings

There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code. — Frederick Lenz

Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't. — Ann Beattie

The house is in turmoil with records on every space. In the kitchen and in the dining room is covered with records. I don't have a big enough house to accommodate everything. — Marian McPartland

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. — Confucius

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Labor is the law of happiness. — Abel Stevens

'Duch' means spirit and 'ovny' is kind of the adjectival ending, so the word itself means spiritual. It's my father's name, obviously. He took the 'H' out because he was tired of people saying Duchovny, but he never did it legally. When my parents divorced, my mother, to my father, put the 'H' back in. — David Duchovny