Patrick Mcgrath Asylum Quotes

#1. It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

Jean-Claude Duvalier

#2. Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

James Baldwin

#3. I shrank from the faces and forms by which I was surrounded. They were all fixed faces, full not of possibilities but impossibilities,

C.S. Lewis

#4. Soon enough the tears came but of course nobody came down to see if she was all right, it was just the slut in the kitchen who'd ruined their lives, getting drunk of neat gin and howling for her lost lunatic offer.

Patrick McGrath

#5. My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.

Tom Stoppard

#6. The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#7. Mistakes are their own instructors

Horace

#8. Remember that when you say 'I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange,' you have denied America with that word.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#9. If you're interested or like it, but could be just as happy living in a regular town, having a regular job, maybe doing little theatre, you're better off and you'll be a happier person. This is too gut-wrenching and heartbreaking.

Delta Burke

#10. I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'

Mike Schmidt

#11. Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.

Annie Dillard

#12. Audrey turned to him, a sly little spark hiding in her eyes. "THe only man who gets to call me'love' would be waking up next to me after a very, very fun night.
Fun night. Oh yes.
"Guess what?" She leaned closer. "You will never be that man.

Ilona Andrews

#13. When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

Sue Monk Kidd

#14. What looked empty was full, much like water in a cup. What was most important was invisible to the eye. THE

Alice Hoffman

#15. He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

Ludwig Von Mises

#16. If I must die, then I will die for the ones I love, for my compassion will be passed onto them and they will have the ability to do the same. That's what makes love so powerful.

Serena Winter