Patches Quotes - Page 5

• Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors?

  Jim Hightower

  Race, Presidential, Why Not

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• Did you ever notice all the items on a honey do list are dangerous. Clean gutters, put light in shower, patch roof. It's a honey die list.

  Bill Engvall

  Light, Gutters, Honey

  Twitter post from Apr 30, 2013

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• East of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods;MCato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis. Some say that he was a Guinea Negro. There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last. He too, however, occupies an equally narrow house at present.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Growing Up, House, Gentleman

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• It is extremely rough to follow through with my goals, but I felt a responsibility to show the world what the African Americans are facing through this rough patch.

  Ida B. Wells

  Responsibility, Goal, African American

  Source: evekathygean.wordpress.com

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• I'm terrified that I'm genetically predisposed to only having boys. That's frightening. By the time I was 10 years old, and I'm not exaggerating, I knew how to patch drywall.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Boys, Years, Frightening

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• There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

  Thom Yorke

  Boys, Years, Nightmare

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• Science is a match that man has just got alight. He thought he was in a room - in moments of devotion, a temple - and that his light would be reflected from and display walls inscribed with wonderful secrets and pillars carved with philosophical systems wrought into harmony. It is a curious sensation, now that the preliminary splutter is over and the flame burns up clear, to see his hands and just a glimpse of himself and the patch he stands on visible, and around him, in place of all that human comfort and beauty he anticipated - darkness still.

  H. G. Wells

  Wall, Philosophical, Men

  H.G. Wells (2009). “The Island of Doctor Moreau”, p.212, Broadview Press

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• Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags.

  Bill Hicks

  Eye, Cigarette Smoke, Smoking

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• Harry Patch didn't get enough recognition. Jerry Garcia got too much.

  Trevor Dunn

  Too Much, Recognition, Enough

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• Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

  Plutarch

  Skins, Lions, Foxes

  Parallel Lives "Lysander" sec. 7 See Machiavelli 7

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• Soldier, there is a war between the mind
  And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
  For that the poet is always in the sun,
  Patches the moon together in his room
  To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
  Up down. It is a war that never ends.

  Wallace Stevens

  War, Moon, Night

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.302, Vintage

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• You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Stupidity, Updates, Window

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• My vegetable patch is my pride and joy.

  Sheherazade Goldsmith

  Pride, Vegetables, Joy

  "My space" by Sheherazade Goldsmith, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2009.

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• Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.

  Lauren Hutton

  Real, Learning, Watches

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• I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.

  Fernand Leger

  Curves, Color, Lines

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• By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately.

  Paul Klee

  Color, Simplicity, Way

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.232, Univ of California Press

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• Faith is the readiness to reveal whatever is concealed. You don't have to conceal doubts by putting on patches of self-confirmation. The readiness to be exposed seems to make the difference between ego's approach to spirituality and an enlightened one.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Faith, Differences, Self

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• It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards, and enjoy the miracle of seeing these puzzling patches suddenly fall into one place and come to life before our eyes.

  Ernst Gombrich

  Fall, Eye, Appreciate

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• Looking for the essence of beauty is comprehending and appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.

  Luci Swindoll

  Beauty, Laughter, Eye

  Luci Swindoll (1989). “You Bring the Confetti”, W Publishing Group

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• The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

  Jo Coudert

  Divorce, Eye, Men

  Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.212, iUniverse

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• The oil patch pays good. They're decent jobs paying between 50 and 70 thousand a year. Fracking has a big impact on the oil consumption in the United States.

  Harold Hamm

  Jobs, Impact, Years

  "Hamm: China's Latest Attempt to Tap US Energy Market Is A 'Disaster'". Interview with Lori Ann LaRocco, www.cnbc.com. Ocotber 14, 2010.

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• Vets do what doctors used to - diagnose the injury or the condition, patch it up as best they can and remind you that these things happen and that in life we are also in the midst of death.

  Jane Smiley

  Doctors, Vets, Injury

  "With the benefit of foresight..." by Jane Smiley, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2002.

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• If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more.

  John Shelton Reed

  Race, Care, Poor

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• Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings.

  John Shelton Reed

  Heart, Alabama, Dixie

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• I was like a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  Natalie Portman

  Children, Kids, Cutting

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