Patrick Ness Quotes

The best characters in books are always the difficult ones, and why would you want to fall in love with someone difficult? The ones I'd fall in love with are the ones I'd definitely keep out of a book.

Patrick Ness

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 17, 1971

Topics

LoveBestBookSomeoneYouFall

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

Meles Zenawi

ProblemsDownTryTalkDialogueSit

I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents! It's an art form. I talk a lot. And I think a lot. And I draw a lot. But never in a million years would I have been a parent. That's just work that's too hard.

Maurice Sendak

WorkArtParentsPeopleThinkTest

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Michael Bloomberg

FamilyTogetherJobGovernmentHelp

I'm proud to be American and very happy that women like my brand.

Tory Burch

WomenHappyProudBrandAmerican

Despite all the evidence that Hispanics are not single-issue voters, Republican candidates are told that if they say harsh things about sanctuary cities, American jobs lost to illegal labor, or scandalous border security, Latino voters will punish them by voting Democrat.

Tom Tancredo

BorderVotingAmericanSecurityLost

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

Roland Barthes

ManStreetSkyscraperBlockOffers

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.

Louis de Bernieres

CommunityBusySeeingUpGetMain

It took me a long time to realize that to walk around without a certain amount of belief in myself, to walk onto a job with my tail between my legs, wasn't behooving anyone else.

Johnny Galecki

TimeMyselfWalkJobMeLong

I don't like the idea that the government has so much of a say in things.

Johnny Kelly

GovernmentSayThingsIdeaLike

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that.

Diane Kruger

FootballPeaceI AmNightStory

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

Christina Baker Kline

WordsWritingReadingEditingBoth

I think American drama is at its best when it takes the domestic and makes it epic, like a Greek tragedy in the front room.

Anne-Marie Duff

BestThinkAmericanTragedyDrama

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