Ann Patchett Quotes

I think it's brain chemistry. I'm a positive, cheerful person, and I think it is absolutely the luck of the draw. I think the life I have had has come largely from the chemicals in my head. I see my life as good, and I think, a lot of times, if you see your life as good, then that's how it turns out.

Ann Patchett

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 2, 1963

Topics

LifePositiveGoodLuckBrainThink

I also hope that I am occasionally involved in projects that touch other people in ways that make their lives a little better, more interesting for the moment that makes them think.

Jim Caviezel

HopeMomentI AmPeopleBetterMore

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

John Glenn

FriendshipSpaceYouMuseumGoBurn

Whatever I am doing at that moment, I want to make the most of it.

Jennie Finch

MomentI AmDoingWantWhateverAm

While we do not ask for accolades, we must defend ourselves from repeated public attacks.

Andrew Thomas

AskDefendMustOurselvesPublic

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

John Wayne

NobodyMoviesHeroesComeHeShould

A true initiation never ends.

Robert Anton Wilson

TrueNeverInitiationEnds

A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting with Gorbachev, for example, he sent a 'Dear Murph' letter about it to his old friend George Murphy, a former senator and actor who had once played Reagan's father in a film.

Russell Baker

FriendFatherManWritingThinking

I am proud to place Tercio Red River into a conservation easement forever protecting this spectacular landscape with Colorado Open Lands.

Louis Bacon

I AmRedRiverProudLandscapeOpen

I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Dorothea Benton Frank

GodMeBrainSeriousWantCandy

I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.

Colonel Sanders

WorkChildrenAlwaysBecauseAbout

A good story needs equally good talent to foster it.

Arfi Lamba

GoodTalentStoryNeedsGood Story

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Anwar Sadat

FamilyHopeSocietyBigBig Family

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