Top 62 Patricia O'farrell Quotes
#2. I know that, too," he said, his voice tender. "You should know that you can't hide things from me."
"Good," I said, my voice fierce. "Good. Then you know, you know I love you.
Patricia Briggs
#3. The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.
Patricia Ireland
#4. Very well. You may help me to exterminate the society of wizards.
Patricia C. Wrede
#5. Every single line, every single thing has to be fought over. There's kind of like an intrinsic doubt from absolutely everyone in my crew, my producer, everyone. It's not just the film industry - it's a worldwide thing. It's the culture of the world to doubt women.
Patricia Riggen
#6. I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.
Patricia Ireland
#8. A peculiarity of the American historical sensibility allows us to be proud of great-grandfathers (or even grandfathers) who lived in crushing poverty, while the poverty of a father is too close for comfort.
Patricia Hampl
#9. That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it
Patricia McCormick
#12. Are you done yet?" called Isaac.
Charles tilted his head and called back, "I suppose that's why they call you the five-mintue wonder.
Patricia Briggs
#13. He left the key in the ignition. No one was likely to come up here and steal the truck- and if anyone did ... well, he could deal with Charles
Patricia Briggs
#15. I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one," he said.
"Life can be difficult for everyone," she replied.
"Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper.
Patricia Grasso
#16. When a language die we don't know what we lose with language.
Patricia Ryan
#17. We are all emigrants from the same country - the land of childhood. What I want to do is write about the journey all of us have taken - or are in the process of taking - from that special place.
Patricia Calvert
#18. She knew that she must sit quietly and patiently and, like her beloved butterflies, eventually he would come to rest.
Patricia O'Sullivan
#19. The breed clearly originated in Germany. The name Dachshund comes from two German words, "Dachs" which means badger and "Hund" which has the meaning of hound.
Patricia O'Grady
#22. In many ways, the ability to read is the great divide that separates the very young from everyone else. Once we've joined the conspiracy of the literate, once we've crossed over to the land of the reading, everything changes.
Patricia T. O'Conner
#23. Reading is the true foundation of our civil liberties.
Patricia O'Hara
#24. The transaction between writer and reader is human civilization's most dazzling feat, yet it's such a part of our lives that it's, well, prosaic.
Patricia T. O'Conner
#25. He had illuminated the heartbreaking cruelty of war: When men who fight become nothing, only packages of bones and blood deposited in the earth with no clarion call to memory, those they love are left without a way to make such devastating loss hold meaning.
Patricia O'Brien
#26. Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.
Patricia Ireland
#27. Child that is a beautiful note," the chief justice praised her, "but the next time you write your title, add an O to the countess.
Patricia Grasso
#28. During her Oscar acceptance speech, Patricia Arquette called for equal pay for women. Then Oprah stood up and said, 'She's right, I can't live like this. I can't take another second of this living hell.'
Conan O'Brien
#29. Caleb looked at her lips. "Your eyes are incredible."
"O-kay." Jocelyn had to concentrate not to lean forward to touch her mouth to his.
"Really amazing."
He's right there and his lips are so full, so luscious, so close.
And far too tempting to pass up.
Patricia W. Fischer
#30. Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.
Patricia T. O'Conner
#31. In grammar school, I went to eight o'clock mass pretty much like four days a week.
Patricia Mauceri
#32. My fans want me to talk to them. And even if they want to be critical, I want to hear what they've got to say.
Patricia Cornwell
#34. Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward
Patricia Sampson
#38. I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
Patricia Birch
#39. When I have run out of words to copy, I look out the window at this strange place called India. Inside the train, the people around me are snoring. I don't understand how they can close their eyes when there is so much to see.
Patricia McCormick
#40. To speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.
Patricia J. Williams
#41. I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.
Patricia Hampl
#42. Some fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten.
Patricia Highsmith
#43. The goddess has never been lost. It is just that some of us have forgotten how to find her.
Patricia Monaghan
#44. Like every other mortal who has ever been touched by suicide, I had the fallacious belief that I could have done something to stop it.
Patricia Cornwell
#45. Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.
Patricia Gaffney
#46. Love is a vulnerable thing. Falling in love is like a great drug.
Patricia Arquette
#47. Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.
Patricia Montandon
#48. If you could just see your face," she told me. "You look like a cat in a bathtub.
Patricia Briggs
#49. That's the hardest part of acting: when it is ultra-personal, when it is deeply personal, and there's no lying involved. You can't fake it, you can't get by it. This is dealing with the most primal instincts and emotions that a mother can have.
Patricia Clarkson
#51. The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.
Patricia Hampl
#52. If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?
Patricia Briggs
#53. It's always gratifying to share a hobby with a friend, and pining for erstwhile suitors falls into that category. In the months to come, Libby and I would analyze our respective exes with the gusto and intellectual rigor of Jesuits.
Patricia Marx
#54. Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.
Patricia Luce Chapman
#55. I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
Patricia Highsmith
#56. His arm pulled her a little off balance, and paradoxically it steadied her at the same time. That was what Charles did to her heart, too. He knocked it off balance into what felt like the right position, a safe place that was still exciting, exhilarating, and terrifying.
Patricia Briggs
#57. In the animal kingdom, lions, tigers and bears - the predators - have closely spaced eyes. Giraffes, rabbits, doves - the preyed upon - have eyes more widely spaced and oriented toward the sides of their heads, because they need their peripheral vision to survive.
Patricia Cornwell
#58. Her pink hair helped her cheerful act - hard to look sad with pink hair - even if her eyes were a little pink, too.
Patricia Briggs
#59. Clearly this business of treating minds, particularly this big business of treating young minds, has not policed itself, and has no incentive to put a stop to the kinds of fraudulent and unethical practices that are going on.
Patricia Schroeder
#61. The trick to going wherever you want unchallenged in a hospital is to walk briskly, nod to the people you know, and ignore the ones you don't. The nod reassures everyone that you are known, the brisk pace that you have a mission and don't want to talk.
Patricia Briggs