
Top 25 Patrick Dennis Quotes
#1. I always start writing with a clean piece of paper and a dirty mind.
Patrick Dennis
#2. She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.
Patrick Dennis
#4. Chinchilla is said to be more chic than mink, though personally it reminds me of unborn burlap.
Patrick Dennis
#5. Morning, I soon discovered, was one o'clock for Auntie Mame. Early Morning was eleven, and the Middle of the Night was nine.
Patrick Dennis
#6. She thought that 9Am was in the middle of the night
Patrick Dennis
#7. Life is a banquet and most poor s.o.b.'s are starving to death. Auntie Mame
Patrick Dennis
#8. Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion.
Dennis Lehane
#9. Within the last two years it had been called Tony's, Belle's Bar Sinister, The Ole Plantation, Tony's, Alt Wien, Paris Soir
or Sewer
Victor's Vesuvius, Chez Cocotte, York House, Gay Madrid, and Tony's.
Patrick Dennis
#10. They say there are only two kinds of people on St. Patrick's Day: the Irish, and the people that drive them home.
Conan O'Brien
#12. A person seldom falls sick, but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. Patrick Kenzie asking a bemused waitress for a newspaper in smalltown USA. 'It's like a homepage without a scroll button?
Dennis Lehane
#14. Each moment is perfect and heaven-sent, in that each moment holds the seeds for growth.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#15. Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging.
Patrick Dennis
#16. Life is a banquet and most poor bastards are starving to death!
Patrick Dennis
#17. I find that women want to tell me about their birthing experiences. In the most excruciating detail. It's not put me off having children, but I do feel like I know too much.
Jessica Raine
#19. Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
Andrew Bird
#20. The lesson for today, dear Rakshas , is between two evils you should pick the one that you haven't yet tried.
Ashwin Sanghi
#21. It's a terrible thing to have my life depend on my half-assed handiwork.
Andy Weir
#22. Daddy always said that Christmas is a joyous season when suicides and holdups and shoplifting and like that reach a new high and that the best place to spend the whole thing is a Moslem country.
Patrick Dennis
#23. Oh, darling, you know we writers must occasionally stretch a point to heighten the dramatic situation.
Patrick Dennis
#24. (The good news, as my mom used to say, is that in prison they can get a Bible, whereas in school they cannot.)
Emerson Eggerichs
#25. Tipsy actress Vera Charles (who had 'more changes of costume than facial expression,' according to one critic to whom she never spoke again) ...
Patrick Dennis
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