Top 36 Patrick Mcgrath Quotes
#1. I know that some poor immigrants from that era had unrealistic expectations and were disappointed, but I don't think my grandparents were disappointed at all, even though they experienced some very hard times during the Great Depression.
Samuel Alito
#2. Hugo," she said, in a certain hurt tone that I knew well and enjoyed provoking, "you can be most horribly rude when you choose. Why do you choose?
Patrick McGrath
#3. Houses, I have come to believe, like love, like nature herself, should not reassure, should not attempt to soothe, or give comfort, but should, rather, excite.
Patrick McGrath
#4. Harry Peake's spine disturbed the people's confidence in the proper shape and form of things, a confidence they had not known they possessed, it was stitched so deep in their sense of the order of the world.
Patrick McGrath
#5. I think the atmosphere of a Prom concert can change your life, in the best way. It's so deep, the feeling you have there. The audience is so close, and there are so many of them, that you feel they are almost embracing you.
Gustavo Dudamel
#6. These are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity.
Patrick McGrath
#7. A tissue of small sounds filled the room, a bird, a clock, a voice from another garden. What we call silence.
Patrick McGrath
#8. All Christians have access to the spiritual riches found in the Scriptures, which, after all, were written amid the spiritual turmoil and social conflicts of the writers' times. We can learn from those who went before us.
James Martin
#9. He stripped his clothes off and flung himself into a heavy sea, for the sheer pleasure of getting out safe again.
Patrick McGrath
#10. Strange how reluctant I was to acknowledge that control of my fate lay beyond my own conscious will. Habit of a lifetime, I suppose.
Patrick McGrath
#11. I'd love to have been born into a wealthy family. I might have turned out even more marvellous than I am now ...
John Lydon
#12. As we shook hands I wondered idly what her urine looked like.
Patrick McGrath
#13. Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.
Jeremy Bulloch
#14. There is something I have learned since being paralyzed, and that is that in the absence of sensory information, the imagination always tends to the grotesque.
Patrick McGrath
#15. Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.
Patrick McGrath
#16. Thus was I recruited, and thus would I be ruined: for a penny.
Patrick McGrath
#17. Stella realized then that Charlie's unhappiness had locked him out of this community as effectively as hers had, and she felt a dull sense of confirmation, she felt she might have known, this is the nature of people, they unerringly select as their victim the one who most needs their warmth.
Patrick McGrath
#18. My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint.
Helen Dunmore
#19. Stunned by his own action, Kylo Ren fell to his knees. Following through on the act ought to have made him stronger, a part of him believed. Instead, he found himself weakened.
Alan Dean Foster
#21. The uncanny first impression was again one of private hells coexisting in public space.
Patrick McGrath
#22. The military is faithful to the constitution. They will come in only to protect the people from the enemies of the state.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
#23. Not all stories translate well when read out loud.
Lynn Cohen
#24. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
#25. Perhaps that's the whole point about infidelity, I suggested, not that one has sex but that by doing so one puts at risk someone else's happiness?
Patrick McGrath
#26. Although in truth her passivity was calculated, because she knew passivity inflamed him. He had her, and to some extent she wanted to be had, like an animal: in a mute mutual privacy of violence.
Jonathan Franzen
#27. In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.
Daniel Odier
#28. A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.
Wilhelm Dilthey
#29. 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
#30. Various pieces of huge dark furniture constricted the passage, and the place smelled of boiled fish. I was shown into the parlor, where the gloom of that overcast day was filtered through windows curtained in dingy lace.
Patrick McGrath
#31. Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.
Patrick McGrath
#32. A place where you can see a good view is also a good place to sit and dream!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#33. Our conversations were like sex, our sex like conversation.
Patrick McGrath
#34. I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me.
To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.
Patrick McGrath
#35. Nothing improper was occurring, on the surface, but she hadn't said a word about her new friend to Max; and by consistently failing to mention and event of significance in her day she was practising a form of duplicity.
Patrick McGrath
#36. We see nobody clearly. We see only the ghosts of absent others, and mistake for reality the fictions we construct from blueprints drawn up in early childhood. This is the problem.
Patrick McGrath
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