Patsy O'hara Quotes & Sayings

some linguists have also concluded that, while the innatist perspective provides a plausible explanation for first language acquisition, something else is required for second language acquisition, since it so often falls short of full success. From the cognitive psychology perspective, however, first and second language acquisition are seen as drawing on the same processes of perception, memory, categorization, and generalization. The difference lies in the circumstances of learning as well as in what the learners already know about language and how that prior knowledge shapes their perception of the new language. — Patsy M. Lightbown

My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards! — Patsy Cline

I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half. — Patsy Cline

all learners benefited from the deductive instruction regardless of differences in aptitude. — Patsy M. Lightbown

I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support. — Patsy Cline

The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist. — Patsy Mink

Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy. — Patsy Cline

I don't wanna be rich, just live good. — Patsy Cline

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie. — Patsy Kensit

I am a Patsy Cline fan. — Charlie Day

I usually base my characters on composites of people I know. One trumpet player in SIDE MAN is really a mix of four different guys I knew growing up. Patsy , the waitress, is a mix of about three different people. I like doing it that way. I start with the characters, as opposed to plot, location, or some visual element. I write more by ear than by eye. I always work on the different sound of each character, trying to make sure each has a specific voice and speech pattern, which some writers could care less about. — Warren Leight

For usage-based theorists, acquisition of language, while impressive, is not the only remarkable feat accomplished by the child. They compare it to other cognitive and perceptual learning, including learning to 'see'. That is, the visual abilities that we take for granted, for example, focusing on and interpreting objects in our visual field, are actually learned through experience. — Patsy M. Lightbown

I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness — Frank O'Hara

That circular loop was fatal. Patsy giving them their Latin name, herpes zoster, describing how the pain attacked the line of the nerves, something Dilly knew beyond the Latin words when she had wept night after night, as they oozed and bled, when nothing, no tablet, no prayer, no interceding, could do anything for her, a punishment so acute that she often felt one half of her body was in mutiny against — Edna O'Brien

When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it. — Kacey Musgraves

Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power. — Carly Simon

I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD. — Hope Partlow

I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again! — Patsy Cline

When actors go onstage, you know immediately if they can do their job. You can be a lawyer or an accountant for years and not find out. — Patsy Rodenburg

I think when you are younger you bounce back quicker from knocks. — Patsy Kensit

If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much. — Patsy Kensit

You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find. — Patsy Rodenburg

There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing. — Jennifer Saunders

Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back! — Patsy Kelly

He was not beyond knowing that they thought him - when he first arrived - a quiet patsy. The Arab. The Yank. The Judge. Your Harness. Mohammed. Mahatma. Ahab. Iron Pants. He wasn't interested in playing himself Irish or Lebanese. Not for him the simple ancestral heart: he wanted to make himself the smallest continent possible. — Colum McCann

Normal" is just a setting on your dryer. — Patsy Clairmont

I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me. — Patsy Cline

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20. — Patsy Cline

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye. — Patsy Cline

[Trip] "You're a pain in the ass. A wordy pain in the ass."
"Here are two more words for you. Interfering jerk."
"Stubborn idiot."
"Government patsy."
"Bookworm," Trip shot back, and then he had her up against her car, his mouth on hers, his hands on her body, taking as much of her as he could get. She came right back at him, curling her hands into his shirt, trying to drag him closer, which was impossible since the only thing between them was a couple of thin layers of clothing and enough heat to cause spontaneous combustion. — Penny McCall

If you have something Negative to say, then, say it in a Positive way. Don't set out to hurt people or their careers. We all deserve a fighting chance to succeed at what we do. — Patsy Whittle

She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline. — Trisha Yearwood

I'm gonna be something one of these days. — Patsy Cline

Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself. — Patsy Cline