Patirent Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is a strange word. So conclusive. Happiness is a thing that happens for a moment. — Kelly Reichardt

Advice? I don't have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you're writing, you're a writer. Write like you're a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there's no chance for a pardon. Write like you're clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you've got just one last thing to say, like you're a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God's sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we're not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don't. Who knows, maybe you're one of the lucky ones who doesn't have to. — Alan W. Watts

Cancer has taught me a lot of things. Maybe it is the best thing that has happened to me. I can't say right now, but maybe some years down the line, I would realise. When I was taking chemotherapy, there were a lot of elderly patients, and that would inspire me. I thought, 'If they can be cured, why can't I be?' — Yuvraj Singh

That's not what I meant at all ... that's not it at all. — T. S. Eliot

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig
and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. — William Shakespeare

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. — Benjamin Disraeli

When one does not see what one does not see, one does not even see that one is blind. - Paul Veyne — Daniel Quinn

Do things that make you make the most of the time you have here in this world. — Moonish Sood

I am a solo flier looking out over the land of Boyfriends and Girlfriends. I am three notes in the middle of a song. — David Levithan

He cut right through the layers of civilization, politeness, and social snobbery to some preternatural female sense that said, "Dominant male. Danger. Power. Sex." Why — Ilona Andrews

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. — Dean Koontz