Patches Quotes - Page 16

• An acre of the best ground for hemp, is to be selected and sewn in hemp and be kept for a permanent hemp patch.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Acres, Hemp, Permanent

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• I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

  Denis Diderot

  Fall, Dark, Science

  Denis Diderot, David J. Adams (2000). “Thoughts on the interpretation of nature: and other philosophical works”, Clinamen Press Ltd.

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• Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.

  William Golding

  Writing, Thinking, Community

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I find that one of the most important things, as a writer, is to just show up - to just stay in the chair and fight through the difficult patches. As long as you're at the desk, and you're willing to fight it out, eventually the right words will come.

  Eric Schlosser

  Fighting, Long, Important

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I have had a few rough patches in my life, but these last few years have been among the roughest. A few years ago, I left my job as host of the television show Extra. Our parting of ways was completely amicable; they were amazing to me. I had spent over a quarter of my life at that job, and without it, I felt like I had lost my compass. People didn't know how to introduce me anymore, because in L.A., you are your job.

  Dayna Devon

  Jobs, Years, People

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• Patch grief with proverbs.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 5, sc. 1, l. 17

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• Are you gloating inside? That's what this is about, isn't it? Getting me to trust you so you could blow it up in my face!" [...] "I get that you're angry—," said Patch. "I am ripped apart!" I shouted.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Blow, Faces, Said

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

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• Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Please, Briars

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• It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal, and never to such kaleidoscopic effect.

  Robert Musil

  Thinking, Together, Connections

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.411, Pan Macmillan

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• A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.

  S. J. Perelman

  Cities, Wife, Fool

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• See, I have a different type of music from other peoples. They playing the other kind of blues, and I'm playing cotton-patch blues.... Ain't nobody now can play the blues that I play.

  Junior Kimbrough

  Play, Different, Cotton

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• I can honestly say and swear on my patch that I have never in my life hurt anybody that I really didn't feel had it coming, because they was either trying to hurt me or my friends. If everybody was like that it [life] would be real different.

  Sonny Barger

  Hurt, Real, Trying

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• I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth." "And which do you love best?" "The dream.

  Knut Hamsun

  Dream, Love You, Three

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• I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

  Christy Turlington

  Hypnosis, Acupuncture, Found

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• In a rock garden we foster a little patch of the wilderness that stands to us for freedom.

  Jason Hill

  Art, Freedom, Garden

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• Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  One Day, Coats, Theory

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• For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put carbs into my system before I swim and then load up on the protein after. I don't count calories. Whether it's Sour Patch Kids or Reese's or a bag of chips, if I feel like eating it, I'm going to eat it.

  Michael Phelps

  Recovery, Kids, Exercise

  "Olympic Champ Michael Phelps Bares Chest on Cover of 'Details': The 27-year-old gold medalist hopes to make a big splash in London". Details Magazine Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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• Having an eye patch actually makes it easier to look through a camera - I don't have to close one eye like everyone else.

  Brian Selznick

  Eye, Cameras, Looks

  Brian Selznick (2015). “The Invention of Hugo Cabret”, p.170, Scholastic

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• I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again.

  Gene Siskel

  Turns

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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