Patsy Quotes & Sayings

Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination. — Colleen Hanabusa

My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star. — Patsy Kensit

God, Benny, don't blow your nose like that in the church. You'd lift half the congregation out of their seats," Patsy warned. — Maeve Binchy

Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny. — Patsy Kensit

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

If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it. — Warren Buffett

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

Find one person in the audience and sing to them with all of your heart. And then cast a spell over them. Hoss, if you can't do it with feeling - don't. — 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

Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you. — Patsy Rodenburg

In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's! — Patsy Cline

Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning. — Patsy Cline

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s. — Melissa Rosenberg

No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood. — Brian McGreevy

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 get rich - just live good. — Patsy Cline

I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has. — Sarah McLachlan

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy. — Warren Buffett

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

Several studies have shown that implicit corrective feedback (for example, recasts) in pair-work situations is beneficial. A recent review of this research confirms that the positive effects for recasts are strongest in the laboratory setting (Mackey and Goo 2007). This may be because recasts are more salient in pair work, particularly if only one form is recast consistently (Nicholas, Lightbown, and Spada 2001). — Patsy M. Lightbown

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

It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso — Patsy Asuncion

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

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it. — Patsy Kensit

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry. — Patsy Cline

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir ... I'm just a patsy. — Lee Harvey Oswald

Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers. — Kacey Musgraves

It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary. — Patsy Mink

Patsy Cline is my favorite singer in the entire world - she is my idol. I adore her. — Nikki Blonsky

At a quarter to twelve on that Friday, Patty Jefferson died. In the final moments, Jefferson's sister Martha Carr had to help the grieving husband from his wife's bedside.13 He was, his daughter recalled, "in a state of insensibility" when Mrs. Carr "with great difficulty, got him into the library, where he fainted" - and not for a brief moment. Jefferson "remained so long insensible that they feared he would never revive." When he did come to, he was incoherent with grief, and perhaps surrendered to rage. There is a hint that he lost all control in the calamity of Patty's death. According to his daughter Patsy, "The scene that followed I did not witness" - presumably "the scene" unfolded in the library when he revived - "but the violence of his emotion, when, almost by stealth, I entered his room by night, to this day I dare not describe to myself."14 (Patsy was writing half a century later.) A — Jon Meacham

I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it. — Patsy Kensit

Hi."
"Honey!" exclaimed Patsy. "Good to hear your voice! Listen, I oughtta go pull my robe on 'fore we commence. You caught me nekkid as a jaybird."
" 'Nekkid' or 'naked,' mama?"
"What's the blessed difference? Are you making Yankee fun of the way I talk? The way you used to talk?"
"No, no, mama, let me tell you. Naked means you just don't have any clothes on. Nekkid means you don't have any clothes on and you're fixing to get into trouble. — Tom Robbins

I'm regularly asked, 'What's a good voice?' I often answer, 'One that I don't notice'. I would also add, one which makes me notice things about a spoken text — Patsy Rodenburg

I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do' — Patsy Cline

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside. — Patsy Cline

I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans. — Kelly Clarkson

There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt. — Nina LaCour

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic. — Jennifer Saunders

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline. — Laura Bell Bundy

Normal is just a settng on your dryer — Patsy Clairmont

I do have cellulite. I have it everywhere. From the neck down! — Patsy Kensit

I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely. — Charlie Day

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing. — Patsy Kelly

Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. — Elvis Costello

The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands. — Sabrina Carpenter

The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding. — Richard Russo

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on. — Patsy Cline

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy! — Patsy Cline

I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine. — Patsy Kensit

With pictures of Patsy, Morrie, and the three — Stephen King

I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation. — Patsy Kensit

If you can't do it with feeling, don't. — Patsy Cline

One of the things I love about God's Word is that it has no expiration date. — Patsy Clairmont

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing. — Patsy Cline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm gonna walk a little bit of dog. — Patsy Cline

A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored — Patsy Cline

On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes. — Patsy Cline

I think that we can often be eating and not even really acknowledging that we are putting something about our mouths. I think there is lot to be said about eating dinner and not having the distraction of the TV. — Patsy Kensit

George gives me a smile, the same dazzling sweet smile as his big brother, although, at this point, with green teeth. "I might marry you," he allows. "Do you want a big family?"
I start to cough and feel a hand pat my back.
"George, it's usually better to discuss this kind of thing with your pants on." Jase drops boxer shorts at George's feet, then sets Patsy on the ground next to him.
She's wearing a pink sunsuit and has one of those little ponytails that make one sprout of hair stick straight up on top all chubby arms and bowed legs. She's, what, one now?
"Dat?" she demands, pointing to me a bit belligerently.
"Dat is Samantha," Jase says. "Apparently soon to be your sister-in-law." He cocks an eyebrow. "You and George move fast."
"We talked astronauts," I explain ... — Huntley Fitzpatrick

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up! — Patsy Kelly

I don't want to get rich - just live good. — Patsy Cline

Patsy, suffering strengthens our constitutions and builds inner fortifications so that we never fall prey to the same agony twice. We must take upon ourselves a smaller evil to defend against the greater evil. We must take upon ourselves a smaller pain in order to survive." I — Stephanie Dray

I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker. — Patsy Cline

I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore. — Patsy Cline

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it. — Patsy Cline

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

I can't miss a night's work and let my public down. — Patsy Cline

At one point, I began to think that I had a divine doorman. Lenny was the most unlikely incarnation of God I could imagine, and yet, I kept drifting irresistibly towards this absurd conclusion. Despite my staunchly atheistic inclinations, I couldn't explain Lenny any other way. But eventually I came to my senses and realized that he was just one of those game show freaks with an encyclopedic memory. That didn't make him God, did it? Would God proclaim so regularly how much he likes Patsy's Pizza? — Zack Love

We are told repeatedly in Scripture to prepare for hardships; so why do we believe our lives should be characterized by ease? — Patsy Clairmont

Mrs. Binnie says we throw out more with a spoon than the men can be bringing in with a shovel ... Binnie-like. Our men like the good living. And what if we don't be having too much money, Patsy dear? Sure and we do have lashings of things no money could be buying. There'll be enough squeezed out for Cuddles when the time comes. The Good Man Above will be seeing to that. — L.M. Montgomery

Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed. — Reba McEntire

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve. — Patsy Kensit

I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage. — Patsy Cline

I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat. — Patsy Kensit

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