Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.


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BOB PATTERSON
That would make it impossible for us.
BOB PATTERSON
It was a cross between a screwball and a change-up. It was a screw-up.
BOB PATTERSON
I hope the Knights beat us to those players, from a Kiwi perspective, but we are going to be putting...
BOB PATTERSON
He owes us one year of back taxes right now and one year of current taxes,
BOB PATTERSON
Our debt-to-revenue ratio is very good. Our bonds are backed by our sales tax.
BOB PATTERSON
We need to figure out if we want vending in Athens, are we trying to encourage it, or do we want to ...
CAROL PATTERSON
We want to get rid of the (licensed) vendors that buy the spot only for Halloween weekend.
CAROL PATTERSON
We said to the community, 'Look, we're drowning. We need your help. You need to be more judicious in...
CAROL PATTERSON
We were just out of resources, ... There are only so many hours in the day.
CAROL PATTERSON
The parking garage is just a big bugaboo of mine.
CAROL PATTERSON
The goal is to have the facility paying for itself as far as operating costs, and it's looking more ...
CAROL PATTERSON
The specific chore that we're undertaking at the moment is taking the routes of the existing systems...
CAROL PATTERSON
In the wee small hours, the neighborhood got pretty bad last year.
CAROL PATTERSON
The impervious cover question somehow brings out the challenge to our water quality authority.
CAROL PATTERSON
The city of Athens is eligible for, and certainly utilizes, state and federal transit funding. The u...
CAROL PATTERSON
You're a brave, brave girl, Tula" Gaby told her.
"I know", said the little girl. "I got it from...
JAMES PATTERSON
I’m not comfortable in this stadium,” I explained, trying to look calm.
“I know. And you ...
JAMES PATTERSON
One of the nice things about books as opposed to television and movies to some extent is it's no...
JAMES PATTERSON
Kids don't read as much as you'd like them to, just in terms of seeing the world from differ...
JAMES PATTERSON
In 10 different takes, you can do a scene 10 different ways.
SCOTT PATTERSON
It was a pretty complete list. The kind of list one makes when one cannot fall asleep because one's ...
JAMES PATTERSON
I didn't feel so bad,
CARLY PATTERSON
It's so weird, ... Last summer, it seemed I'd never get to the Olympics. Life is going by faster now...
CARLY PATTERSON
Every time I come to a meet, it makes me want to get out there, ... Today, watching the juniors, I w...
CARLY PATTERSON
Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultim...
CARLY PATTERSON
I'm working with producers right now as I haven't finished my demos yet. Hopefully we can have somet...
CARLY PATTERSON
I don't want to say anything bad about someone but it was a little bit hard,
CARLY PATTERSON
I'll always remember; it was the best day of my life.
CARLY PATTERSON
They shouldn't have to worry about toothaches or their teeth hurting. There are more things to worry...
CARLY PATTERSON
Since I came here, I've been lost, ... I am not asking for a handout, I just need some help. And tha...
CARLY PATTERSON
When I was 26, I wrote my first mystery, 'The Thomas Berryman Number', and it was turned dow...
JAMES PATTERSON
Man, you weigh a freaking ton," he told me. "What've you been eating, rocks?"
"Why, is your he...
JAMES PATTERSON
Because what’s worse than knowing you want something, besides knowing you can never have it?
JAMES PATTERSON
It cuts through the middle person, ... and it might make a connection between the purchaser and arti...
JAMES PATTERSON
A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes...
JAMES PATTERSON
It's a stall tactic coming out of hostile politics in Washington.
DANIEL PATTERSON
Perhaps the most versatile and useful plug-in in the collection is Mass Copy. It is certainly the on...
ROBERT PATTERSON
Suprisingly, one of the most complex pieces of code is the code to determine where a note is in the ...
ROBERT PATTERSON