Patina Book Quotes

#1. I have certainly had my share of long-distance love affairs.

Drew Barrymore

#2. You couldn't find your dick in the dark, you scheming, sleaze-mongering scumwad.

Nenia Campbell

#3. My book might be seen as a search for lower consciousness, an attempt to remove the patina of abstraction or glassy-eyed piety from religious words, by telling stories about them, by grounding them in the world we live in as mortal and often comically fallible human beings.

Kathleen Norris

#4. Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

Kahlil Gibran

#5. There's another thing that you don't want to take for granted, and that's the reality of there being an audience there each night. It's pretty amazing that that can happen around the world.

Alexis Taylor

#6. Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It's usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.

Anne Carson

#7. It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict ... There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It has nothing to do with sex - everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children.

Angelina Jolie

#8. I have to feel that each thing I've learned I can push to another point next time. I'm not very good with repetition. I would rather not work than feel that repetition is the order of the day.

Twyla Tharp