FastSaying

I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was always interested in writing or illustrating children's books, and I started collecting out-of-print books when I was about 10 years old.


Michael Patrick Hearn

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I'm from Ohio, and I wasn't one of those kids who grew up making movies or whatever, but I a...
DAVID LESLIE JOHNSON But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would...
PATRICIA CORNWELL I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the chil...
KATE DICAMILLO I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.
CHAD LINDBERG I came from a family of incredible storytellers, but I didn't start writing children's books...
PATRICIA POLACCO I don't know how old I was when I started writing books. But, I was born in 1931, and I wrote my...
ED EMBERLEY I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - ...
KARRINE STEFFANS I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration b...
MICHAEL FOREMAN I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ...
DAVID S. GOYER I loved reading when I grew up but did feel totally invisible because I couldn't see myself and ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I have been very interested in the number of kids who have read the Sherlock Holmes books after read...
LAURIE R. KING I was a librarian years ago, and I really liked reading the fun books (to kids) because the kids wou...
CHARLIE WILLIAMS I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read the...
GAIL Z. MARTIN My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye...
TERRY PRATCHETT I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and though...
GAYLE FORMAN I started modeling when I was about 2 or 3 years old; I started with Baby Guess, and I did Guess Kid...
GIGI HADID I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues...
MEGHAN TRAINOR I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like ...
JAMES PATTERSON I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a...
ANN HOOD I grew up on comic books. 'X-Men' was my favorite team; Wolverine was my guy. At 8 years old...
BRIAN TEE All my books are very spiritual. I started out writing what was most natural to me, many years ago, ...
TED DEKKER I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
HALSTON SAGE When I left my Catholic school, I was around 10 or 11 years old, and it started to unravel for me th...
MARK RUFFALO I was obsessed with girls when I was 13 years old; I wasn't really into books.
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even ...
DANE COOK I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By ...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
CATHLEEN SCHINE When I started writing and illustrating, I knew little of classic children's literature. My stor...
MICHAEL FOREMAN I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I was writing blogs before work, then I was writing at work, and then I started writing books on the...
ZOE FOSTER BLAKE I know that when I was a children's librarian, that was about 1940, boys particularly asked wher...
BEVERLY CLEARY Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the ...
DAVID COPPERFIELD When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing th...
ELVIS PRESLEY I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always me...
CARRIE PRESTON I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of ...
LEIGHTON MEESTER I still carry the residue of the pressure I felt as a child to read and appreciate the right books. ...
NOAH BAUMBACH I met my agent when I was 10 years old on a family skiing vacation. He asked if I was interested in ...
HALSTON SAGE I did have a child, and I was reading a lot of picture books to her, but at the same time writing a ...
AL YANKOVIC I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called ...
TAYLOR NEGRON I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read chil...
HENNING MANKELL I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a...
ELLEN DATLOW Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w...
AVI I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instru...
WILLIE NELSON When I went to school, I was already reading and writing. In fact, I was offended that the other kid...
EOIN COLFER I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th...
ELLEN POTTER Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and ...
BILL MUMY I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA I began illustrating children's books because of a growing disillusionment with the sort of work...
GRAEME BASE I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of pri...
DEAN KOONTZ I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've writ...
PATRICK CARMAN I was still in college when 'To Kill a Mockingbird' came out in 1960. I remember it had a ki...
TOM BROKAW I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... dro...
DR. SEUSS I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's hou...
ALAN BRADLEY I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu...
HUNTER HAYES I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good s...
FANNY HOWE I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But...
ELLEN POTTER Early in my publishing career, someone told me I'd need to have five books in print before I cou...
KATE KLISE When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into th...
LYNN ABBEY My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in 'Peter Pan,' and then I...
KELSEA BALLERINI One of the very first serious books I read when I was growing up was 'Atlas Shrugged.'
MIKE POMPEO Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was m...
BARRY MARSHALL When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but i...
RICK RIORDAN I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, ...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI When I started on the 'Burnett' show, I was just out of high school, and when we went off th...
VICKI LAWRENCE With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-J...
ABRAHAM MASLOW I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa...
OTTESSA MOSHFEGH I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr...
JAMES HOWE I'm not too interested in books about India.
BEATRICE WOOD I am an Air Force brat who grew up at various Air Force bases. I changed six schools in about five y...
KAPIL SHARMA 'The Danish Girl' was published in 2000. Then it, too, would disappear, as most books do. It...
DAVID EBERSHOFF When I grew up there was no web, blogging or tweeting. In fact, where I grew up there was not even t...
INDRA NOOYI I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and read...
ADRIANA TRIGIANI I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for childre...
JEWEL Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, o...
WILLIAM H. GASS I grew up in New York, in the Village, and I started going to Stella Adler pretty young. I was 13 or...
STEVEN STRAIT I grew up in the church. I was raised in the church.
QUINTON AARON Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing ...
KHALED HOSSEINI My brother picked on me when I was younger, ... I guess it started when I was about 7 or 8 years old...
JOE ADAMS It's important to have a fallback and other activities that keep you interested. I started actin...
JAKE T. AUSTIN I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I l...
CARRIE FISHER It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I...
CHRISTOPHER REEVE I grew up on 'Lost.' I was 17 when I started, and I did it for four or five years, on and of...
TANIA RAYMONDE Well I guess the plan was to write poetry and publish books and make a living from writing poetry. T...
ROBERT ADAMSON I liked to scrapbook and collage a whole lot in high school. I'm always ripping things out of ma...
JENNA USHKOWITZ Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collect...
CHRIS WARE After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy......
IRIS JOHANSEN I grew up in the church, and I always kind of knew Bible stories and knew the Sunday school answers,...
JEREMY LIN I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
ERIC BOGOSIAN I've met writers who wanted to be writers from the age of six, but I certainly had no feelings l...
ROMESH GUNESEKERA I always wrote. I wrote from when I was 12. That was therapeutic for me in those days. I wrote thing...
CARRIE FISHER Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30...
BILL MUMY I love to read. I was in AP English in high school, and we were assigned books every few months. ...
SPENCER BOLDMAN I started being a comedy fan when I was, I'm going to guess, like 5 or 6 years old.
DEMETRI MARTIN I like to buy books for the kids in my family. I guess that's why they call me the 'mean'...
DANA SPIOTTA The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books -...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES

More Michael Patrick Hearn

Samuel Marshak was one of the founders of modern Russian children's literature. Soviet children ...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN I played hockey in the winter, and then I would play golf in the summer. But I always knew I'd b...
DAVID HEARN The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for...
LAFCADIO HEARN The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending East...
LAFCADIO HEARN French novels generally treat of the relations of women to the world and to lovers, after marriage; ...
LAFCADIO HEARN It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europ...
LAFCADIO HEARN Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man'...
LAFCADIO HEARN One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
LAFCADIO HEARN Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible th...
LAFCADIO HEARN The proverbial philosophy of a people helps us to understand more about them than any other kind of ...
LAFCADIO HEARN The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in w...
LAFCADIO HEARN Accordingly the Northern races of Europe found their inspiration in the Bible; and the enthusiasm fo...
LAFCADIO HEARN At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and thi...
LAFCADIO HEARN It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in En...
LAFCADIO HEARN The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he...
LAFCADIO HEARN There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought ...
LAFCADIO HEARN There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorr...
LAFCADIO HEARN There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty t...
LAFCADIO HEARN It has been wisely observed by the greatest of modern thinkers that mankind has progressed more rapi...
LAFCADIO HEARN But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be ...
LAFCADIO HEARN But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the indiv...
LAFCADIO HEARN But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious val...
LAFCADIO HEARN For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the B...
LAFCADIO HEARN A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, p...
LAFCADIO HEARN As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral...
LAFCADIO HEARN To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver St...
LAFCADIO HEARN I feel like a white granular mass of amorphous crystals -- my formula appears to be isomeric with Sp...
LAFCADIO HEARN I do something that I don't think anyone else does. I warm up before a game. Baseball and basket...
CHICK HEARN Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to A...
LAFCADIO HEARN In the world of reality the more beautiful a work of art, the longer, we may be sure, was the time r...
LAFCADIO HEARN The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else...
LAFCADIO HEARN All good work is done the way ants do things, little by little.
LAFCADIO HEARN We want revenge. We'll do anything to win.
TAMEKA HEARN These sometimes are the kind of things that cost lives … In this case, when we look at the number ...
LOYOLA HEARN He's not like some of the quarterbacks we had on those title teams, but he competes and gets the job...
DAVID HEARN We did get pushed around at times by Dover, but our kids are relentless. We have to be that way. We ...
DAVID HEARN From everything I have heard, this is the first time we ever beat Dover,
DAVID HEARN Anybody who doesn't think I want the Lakers to win is a fool. But I'm no homer.
CHICK HEARN [The symptoms had started the year before. First was the cough that wouldn't go away. It was followe...
KEVIN HEARN We held hands and it took about an hour and a half for his blood to enter my system. His blood cells...
KEVIN HEARN also in the boom of the big bell there is a quaintness of tone which wakens feelings, so strangely f...
LAFCADIO HEARN We have a lot of young kids, but they are hard-nosed. I did not realistically think we would start t...
DAVID HEARN I am not made for despair
LIAN HEARN How can the department explain his department spending $42 million on travel and hospitality while C...
LOYOLA HEARN If a competent amateur can hold his nerve and get the rub of the green, of course it can.
BARRY HEARN If we were going to call it the 'poker million', we needed a million on offer. So last year, that's ...
BARRY HEARN It is going to cost me a fortune, but it's money I would love to spend.
BARRY HEARN Selling Japan gets rid of an irritation, but it does not make everything else ok. There's still plen...
ROBIN HEARN Times are not good here. The city is crumbling into ashes. It has been buried under taxes and frauds...
LAFCADIO HEARN one ounce of revenue or gas flowing.
TIM HEARN How can the minister explain $42 million on travel and hospitality, while Coast Guard vessels were t...
LOYOLA HEARN Could the minister tell us where his priorities lie: searching for fishermen in distress or for empl...
LOYOLA HEARN We can send that size of a delegation to Estonia and the question is, for what? Why do we need 40-od...
LOYOLA HEARN Many of the students want to come back tomorrow. My hope is to introduce history to all of the stude...
DE HEARN It was a good education for the students.
DE HEARN We wanted the students to recognize and participate in the unique history of Wall. Students should h...
DE HEARN He's a load and runs hard inside. He's also one of our middle linebackers.
DAVID HEARN The kids have a mission this year. I'm not quite sure what that mission is yet, but they are ready f...
DAVID HEARN The attitude was so good at the end of last year,
DAVID HEARN We didn't have that team speed the last two years,
DAVID HEARN It was a hard-fought football game and closer than the score shows. We got a couple turnovers, and t...
DAVID HEARN As a team, we talked about starting the year strong. We thought 3-0 would be something fabulous for ...
DAVID HEARN The Henlopen South is loaded with playoff caliber teams. The division is as strong overall this year...
DAVID HEARN I always like to pretend two things: one, I'm sitting in the seat beside you watching the game t...
CHICK HEARN We're very proud of you. This is a little bit of a way that we can tell you how much we appreciate y...
DANNY HEARN We're not taking these losses lightly. We have to move forward and use these problems as opportuniti...
DANNY HEARN There are signs the economy is trying to turn the corner. It is very difficult for communities to ge...
DANNY HEARN The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its de...
LAFCADIO HEARN But just as the river is always at the door, so is the world always outside. And it is in the world ...
LIAN HEARN That's the same kid that Ben's going to face in the first round of individual states. So he has to f...
IAN HEARN We have a really balanced team, a nice mix of veterans and young guys. They've worked extremely hard...
IAN HEARN Our kids came out and wrestled hard. They have their goals set and came out after them. The impressi...
IAN HEARN Berard is doing a wonderful job of building West up. He has some talented young wrestlers. They're g...
IAN HEARN You never know for sure what's going to happen when Central and West get together, but we have a mat...
IAN HEARN Back-to-back outright titles - it's pretty nice. It was one of our goals at the beginning of the yea...
IAN HEARN It's not fair to the people, ... The prime minister and cabinet are the ones that make all the decis...
LOYOLA HEARN These sometimes are the kind of things that cost lives … In this case, when we look at the number o...
LOYOLA HEARN This is pretty serious stuff … This is the kind of stuff that leads to major accidents,
LOYOLA HEARN When you're in your young 20s, you know you can play good golf into your mid-40s. That's a l...
DAVID HEARN When I got onto PGA Tour Canada right out of college, I was competitive more quickly than when I got...
DAVID HEARN You have to have fine motor control to make putts when you need them the most. That's why golf i...
DAVID HEARN Putting is an art. When you're not feeling confident on the greens, it will affect the rest of y...
DAVID HEARN The reasons that major champions are the best in the game is because they're able to keep golf a...
DAVID HEARN Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player w...
DAVID HEARN Nothing else exists when art does.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING I don't wear a watch. How do I know my time? I find that someone will always tell me.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING Seasons change, so do cities. People come into your life and people go, but it's comforting to know:...
MICHAEL PATRICK KING Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we ...
MICHAEL PATRICK KING That's the thing about needs. Sometimes, when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING I always like a good math solution to any love problem.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING Let there be no mistake. A gay man alone could never begin to replicate the inner workings of the fe...
MICHAEL PATRICK KING I come from a background of hanging out with friends and shooting videos with them, with funny stuff...
MICHAEL PATRICK JANN 'Sex and The City' was made to correct the myth that if you were single at a certain age, yo...
MICHAEL PATRICK KING Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to...
MICHAEL PATRICK JANN That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING People wince when something is in bad taste. They laugh when it's funny. If it's too dirty o...
MICHAEL PATRICK KING It was a wealthy family, and they heard me talk about movies, and they told me I should go into movi...
MICHAEL PATRICK JANN Every character when born is a stereotype.
MICHAEL PATRICK KING The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that ...
PATRICK LENCIONI Teamwork is a strategic decision.
PATRICK LENCIONI How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to ...
PATRICK SWAYZE Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sen...
PATRICK LENCIONI Perfect freedom is as necessary to the health and vigor of commerce as it is to the health and vigor...
PATRICK HENRY Would any one believe that I am master of slaves by my own purchase? I am drawn along by the general...
PATRICK HENRY Shall we, who have laid the proud British lion at our feet, now be afraid of his whelps?
PATRICK HENRY It is a debt we owe to the purity of our religion to show that it is at variance with that law which...
PATRICK HENRY Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never ...
PATRICK HENRY The great object is that every man be armed.
PATRICK HENRY This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one whic...
PATRICK HENRY Fear is the passion of slaves.
PATRICK HENRY The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I ...
PATRICK HENRY We are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of Nature has placed in our pow...
PATRICK HENRY Do you remember any instance where tyranny was destroyed and freedom established on its ruins, among...
PATRICK HENRY If this be treason, make the most of it!
PATRICK HENRY I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
PATRICK HENRY There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. ...
PATRICK LEAHY We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one i...
PATRICK LEAHY Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America&#...
PATRICK LEAHY I'm a gun owner.
PATRICK LEAHY Judiciary is where my passion is.
PATRICK LEAHY You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
PATRICK LEAHY The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been sug...
PATRICK LEAHY A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one stan...
PATRICK LEAHY Why do the President and Vice-President constantly change the subject when asked to explain why thin...
PATRICK LEAHY Michael Landon was the biggest influence. As a child, I watched him write, direct, star, and produce...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX I love working! I'm a huge fan of TV and will be happy as long as I'm getting to be creative...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX David James Elliott and I keep in touch via phone.
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Lots of TV shows say that they are like doing a movie every week, but 'JAG' truly was a huge...
PATRICK LABYORTEAUX Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and th...
PATRICK KAVANAGH In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damag...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected wor...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
PATRICK KAVANAGH Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figur...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie...
PATRICK KAVANAGH The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being...
PATRICK KAVANAGH The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public iss...
PATRICK KAVANAGH What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
PATRICK KAVANAGH A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and tal...
PATRICK KAVANAGH In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesti...
PATRICK KAVANAGH How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
PATRICK KAVANAGH I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman...
PATRICK KAVANAGH There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casu...
PATRICK KAVANAGH Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is ...
PATRICK KAVANAGH I've noticed if you look too far ahead, it only works negatively on you.
PATRICK KANE If I was bigger I might not have had the same skill set as I do, the speed.
PATRICK KANE I wouldn't be face-washing anyone in real life. I'd be skating to the bench real fast to get...
PATRICK KANE It's funny: when you're skating around during warm-ups, I'll see signs that say things l...
PATRICK KANE I stickhandle a lot at practice. I watch a lot of hockey, so I try to either pick up something from ...
PATRICK KANE When I go down the ice, I feel it, the wind in the side of my hair, and then I got the party in the ...
PATRICK KANE If I score a goal on the road, I come home, and that's probably the first thing I'm doing, p...
PATRICK KANE We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
PATRICK KANE I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about wha...
PATRICK KANE Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and gettin...
PATRICK KANE I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
PATRICK KANE There are some guys you definitely would not want dating your sister - especially hockey players.
PATRICK KANE I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town.
PATRICK KANE I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.
PATRICK KANE I love scoring for the fans, for the team, for myself. That's not to say that I won't pass i...
PATRICK KANE The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the othe...
PATRICK KANE I love to play the game, love to be around the rink, and love to joke around with my teammates and h...
PATRICK KANE Anytime you hear different things - whether it's trade rumors or people saying you're not li...
PATRICK KANE I love to score goals, and I love to plan my celebrations.
PATRICK KANE I don't want to be satisfied with where I'm at or happy about what I've done. I want to ...
PATRICK KANE Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you alway...
PATRICK KANE Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
PATRICK KANE My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans a...
PATRICK KANE It has been a motto of mine my whole life - just be yourself.
PATRICK KANE Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic ...
PATRICK GEDDES Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant i...
PATRICK GEDDES But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.
PATRICK GEDDES I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul...
PATRICK FUGIT Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks d...
PATRICK FUGIT There are these girls who live in Maryland: they're the Patrick Super Fan Club Association of Am...
PATRICK FUGIT If you think you're going to work with Cameron Crowe and not get into his music, you're craz...
PATRICK FUGIT It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like...
PATRICK FUGIT The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: K...
PATRICK FUGIT One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. B...
PATRICK FUGIT I'm not a very fast-paced person.
PATRICK FUGIT