James Patterson Quotes

When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned down by, I don't know, 31 publishers. Then it won an Edgar for Best First Novel. Go figure.

James Patterson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 22, 1947

Topics

BestMysteryDownGoKnowFirst

I avoid banks and I've never been in any sort of corporate environment at all.

Jodie Whittaker

EnvironmentNeverBeenAvoidSort

Every president makes the Oval Office theirs.

John Dickerson

PresidentOfficeEveryOvalMakes

I take a very unselfish approach to my job and what I do because people spend their hard-earned money to enjoy what we do. And our goal is to deliver the best show possible. If I can contribute to that, great.

John Cena

GreatBestMoneyJobPeopleEnjoy

The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from your family. Your family can seem normal because it is your family and all you know, but in fact it is a mess.

Meg Rosoff

FamilyWorldYouKnowMessOut

We will not agree on every issue. But let us respect those differences and respect one another. Let us recognize that we do not serve an ideology or a political party; we serve the people.

John Lynch

RespectPeoplePoliticalDifferences

If things don't work in education, we need change.

Robert J. Bentley

WorkEducationChangeNeedThings

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Merle Travis

MusicSweetHungerBitterFruits

I never talked about homosexuality with my family. After I was 18, they know everything, but I never talk; it was like an information but in silence. I start to talk when I was 32, it was good for me - it was like a liberation. I'm talking about a love story. I'm not talking about sex because love is love.

Stefano Gabbana

FamilyLoveGoodSilenceLove IsMe

For me, a poem is an opportunity to kind of interrogate myself a little bit.

Tracy K. Smith

OpportunityMyselfMeKindLittle

Crows are incredibly smart. They can be taught five things on the drop.

Robbie Coltrane

SmartThingsDropFiveTaughtCrows

You play for a club like Real Madrid, the people outside start talking.

Royston Drenthe

PeopleStartTalkingYouPlayReal

Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to be this jewel, this sort of two headed tradition of doing comedy, of doing sketches, and that kind of thing.

Rowan Atkinson

ComedyTraditionDoingKindTwo

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