Patches Quotes - Page 10

• I did a commercial when I was, like, 5 or 6 years old for... what was it called?... Cabbage Patch Kids! That was the first thing I ever did. Little bit embarrassing.

  Logan Lerman

  Kids, Years, Cabbage

  "Q&A: Logan Lerman Saves the Day (and D'Artagnan) in 'Musketeers'". Interview with Kevin Polowy, www.mtv.com. October 18, 2011.

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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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• There is no patch for stupidity.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Stupidity

  Twitter post from Jun 18, 2012

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• The sun never sets on a Hells Angels' patch.

  Sonny Barger

  Angel, Sun, Hell

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• Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

  John Lothrop Motley

  Broken Heart, Country, Sovereignty

  John Lothrop Motley (1863). “The Rise of the Dutch Republic: Complete in One Volume”, p.13

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• When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Weed, Inspiration, Rainbow

  Tom Hodgkinson (2006). “How to be Free”

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• The air brightened, the running shadow patches were now the obverse, and it seemed to him that the fact that the day was clearing was another cunning stroke on the part of the foe, the fresh battle toward which he was carrying ancient wounds.

  William Faulkner

  Running, Air, Shadow

  William Faulkner (2016). “The Sound and the Fury (Third International Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.150, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Early Apple machines - don't know how to answer what it was like since there were so few tools. Just had to keep debugging by isolating a problem, looking at memory in the limited debugging (weaker than the DOS DEBUG and no symbols) patch and retry and then re-program, download and try again. And again.

  Bob Frankston

  Memories, Apples, Trying

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• My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to Army patch wherever that was. The Army also contributed to sending me off to boarding school.

  James Blunt

  Dad, School, Army

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• I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny, Rip, Humor

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• You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on.

  John Lydon

  Mind, Nowhere To Go, Evening

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• It's got to be the ballot or the bullet. The ballot or the bullet. If you're afraid to use an expression like that, you should get back in the cotton patch, you should get back in the alley.

  Malcolm X

  Expression, Use, Cotton

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• If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands permanently behind your back, submitting to searches morning and evening, working until you are utterly exhausted, dragged into the cooler whenever someone denounces you, trodden deeper and deeper into the ground-from the hole you're in, the fine words of the great humanists will sound like the chatter of the well-fed and free.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Morning, Years, Clothes

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• People who have only good experiences aren't very interesting. They may be content, and happy after a fashion, but they aren't very deep. It may seem a misfortune now, and it makes things difficult, but well--it's easy to feel all the happy, simple stuff. Not that happiness is necessarily simple. But I don't think you're going to have a life like that, and I think you'll be the better for it. The difficult thing is to not be overwhelmed by the bad patches. You must not let them defeat you. You must see them as a gift--a cruel gift, but a gift nonetheless.

  Peter Cameron

  Life, Fashion, Simple

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• This willingness continually to revise one's own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty is the basic impulse underlying education. One submits oneself to other minds (teachers) in order to increase the chance that one will be looking in the right direction when a comet makes its sweep through a certain patch of sky.

  Elaine Scarry

  Teacher, Order, Sky

  Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.7, Princeton University Press

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• As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's when someone really does risk his life for you.)

  Quentin Crisp

  Sex, Risk, Doe

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• I could get you to smile like that, and without sales tax." I whirled around to find the real Patch standing in the fitting room behind me. He was wearing jeans and a snug white tee. His arms were folded loosely over his chest, and his black eyes smiled down at me. Heat that wasn't entirely uncomfortable flushed through my body. "I could make all kinds of pervert jokes right now," I quipped.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Real, Eye, Jeans

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.772, Simon and Schuster

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• Good scholars struggle to understand the world in an integral way (pedants bite off tiny bits and worry them to death). These visions of reality [...] demand our respect, for they are an intellectual's only birthright. They are often entirely wrong and always flawed in serious ways, but they must be understood honorably and not subjected to mayhem by the excision of patches.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Struggle, Reality, Worry

  Stephen Jay Gould (1993). “Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history”, Vintage

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• The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night .

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Stars, Dark, Night

  "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man". Book by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1877.

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• Here is a quilted book about mathematical practice, each patch wonderfully prepared. Part invitation to number theory, part autobiography, part sociology of mathematical training, Mathematics without Apologies brings us into contemporary mathematics as a living, active inquiry by real people. Anyone wanting a varied, cultured, and penetrating view of today's mathematics could find no better place to engage.

  Peter Galison

  Real, Book, Apology

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• I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee.

  Joel Chandler Harris

  Foxes, Fling

  Joel Chandler Harris, Richard Chase (1983). “The Complete Tales of Uncle Remus”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

  T. E. Hulme

  Memories, Literature, Vivid

  T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.57, Psychology Press

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• One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.

  Bernard Crick

  Real, Order, Giving

  Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick

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• My life's ambition is to play a James Bond villain. I have the cat and the eye-patch, so I'm just waiting for the call. For some reason, though, the phone hasn't rung.

  Toby Young

  Ambition, Cat, Eye

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• What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions.

  Rumi

  Drinking, Mean, Ego

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