Top 100 Patsy Quotes
#1. If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.
Warren Buffett
#2. Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
Salman Rushdie
#3. But Patsy, she was a great, great girl. And Brenda Lee is a wonderful person, and her mama Grace. I've known those folks for years and years and years.
Mel Tillis
#4. I always thought it would have been fun to spend an evening with Patsy Cline - just because I think she was really fun and interesting. I think you'd have a really good time with her.
Martina Mcbride
#5. Patsy, suffering strengthens our constitutions and builds inner fortifications so that we never fall prey to the same agony twice. We must take upon ourselves a smaller evil to defend against the greater evil. We must take upon ourselves a smaller pain in order to survive." I
Stephanie Dray
#6. When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
Kacey Musgraves
#7. I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
Valerie June
#8. She's got her God and she's got good wine, Aretha Franklin, and Patsy Cline.
Trisha Yearwood
#9. I've been a fan of old country music, like Willie Nelson, Patsy Cline. I think I'm drawn to it because of the sense of sadness and sort of loss that a lot of good old country music has.
Sarah McLachlan
#11. No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.
Jennifer Saunders
#12. Lee Ann Womack is from near where I grew up in East Texas, so I've always looked up to her. I sang a lot of Dolly Parton as a kid and a lot of traditional western swing, like Patsy Cline and Roy Rogers.
Kacey Musgraves
#13. I went to the Guilford School of Music and Drama, which was affiliated with the Royal Shakespeare Company. I was lucky enough to be taught by a beautiful, wonderful teacher called Patsy Rodenberg, who works a lot with the Royal Shakespeare Company as a voice coach and technician.
Rhys Ifans
#14. There are still Ava Maddoxes to find and sets to create and girls to kiss and colleges to attend. It's possible that someday I will hear a patsy Cline song and the heartbreak will barely register. It will be some distant, buried feeling. I won't remember how much it once hurt.
Nina LaCour
#15. I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
Jessica Lange
#16. Mines!" Patsy shouts, pointing at Tim. He goes to her, rumples her scanty hair.
"See, hot Alice? Even the very young feel the pull of my magnetism. It's like an irresistible urge, a force like gravity, or - "
"Poop!
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#17. Undoubtedly, Patsy Cline was a trailblazer and in that respect, all women who are singular in a man's field have a special power.
Carly Simon
#18. Patsy Cline? Larger than life! She taught me emotion: raw, sincere, unashamed.
Reba McEntire
#19. God, Benny, don't blow your nose like that in the church. You'd lift half the congregation out of their seats," Patsy warned.
Maeve Binchy
#20. If you're in a card game and you can't figure out who the patsy is, you're it.
Warren Buffett
#21. When I first came out with Blue, everyone compared me to Patsy Cline, which is the biggest honor, 'cause I've always looked up to her.
LeAnn Rimes
#23. I put on the Hank Williams and the Patsy Cline and the Rosemary Clooney on vinyl - I'm not trying to be some cool indie-rock person, I just love the way it sounds - and throw on a T-shirt and jeans. In Texas, we practically come out of the womb in jeans.
Kelly Clarkson
#24. I think Patsy Cline made country music classy. She just opens her mouth, and it's just heavenly.
Melissa Etheridge
#25. Patsy Cline is my favorite singer in the entire world - she is my idol. I adore her.
Nikki Blonsky
#26. When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
Laura Bell Bundy
#27. I get a little Verlaine
for Patsy with drawings by Bonnard although I do
think of Hesiod, trans. Richmond Lattimore or
Brendan Behan's new play or Le Balcon or Les Negres
of Genet, but I don't, I stick with Verlaine
after practically going to sleep with quandariness
Frank O'Hara
#28. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding.
Richard Russo
#29. What's important is that you can be a wife and mother or you can be a devoted daughter all your life. You can't be both. Not when Thomas Jefferson is your father. You have to choose, Patsy. His
Stephanie Dray
#30. You were going to take me bikini shopping?" "Not me, dear. Patsy. I'm not interested in looking at curvy young women in bikinis. I'm deeply in love with my wife and I'm only interested in money.
Nick Hornby
#31. No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood.
Brian McGreevy
#32. Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.
Melissa Rosenberg
#33. There were a lot of areas we didn't cover that I'm hoping to cover if we do some specials. One is to see more of Patsy's home and her home life, which is just the saddest thing.
Jennifer Saunders
#34. With pictures of Patsy, Morrie, and the three
Stephen King
#35. It's wonderful that whenever Patsy Cline's name is mentioned, people's voices fall and they become right sentimental. And, rightly so.
Maya Angelou
#36. Each kind of generation of bands forgets how they got here. Waylon Jennings came out and they're like, 'That's not Patsy Cline.' And everyone panicked, like, 'I don't know what happened to country music, but this isn't it.'
Kristian Bush
#37. It doesn't seem real," said Linda. "None of this. It's like we're all dreaming or something. Or maybe we really are dead."
"Nah," said Patsy, fluffing her bleach-blond curls. "If this was heaven there'd be more naked men.
Michele Bardsley
#39. When I was a kid my Dad never let me sing Patsy Cline songs for one simple reason: they've already been done.
Tanya Tucker
#40. Patsy McDonald had the artificial brightness and dead eyes that go hand in hand with prescription antidepressants. They
Val McDermid
#41. There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
Loretta Lynn
#42. All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else's song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
George Jones
#43. I think I, like most people, enjoy a wide variety of music. Yeah, I like some country stuff - old country stuff. I might not enjoy Billy Ray Cyrus or anything. But, you know, Patsy Cline, Willie Nelson, early Johnny Cash - absolutely.
Charlie Day
#44. The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
Sabrina Carpenter
#45. I grew up listening to Patsy Klein, Reba Mcentire and would study their voices. But once I became bored with that, I moved on to more contemporary stuff like Sheryl Crow and I combined everything that I had learned from country and rock and made this CD.
Hope Partlow
#46. Hawaii's own Patsy Mink served as the first congresswoman of color and first Asian American woman in the House; she later sought the Democratic Party presidential nomination.
Colleen Hanabusa
#47. Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.
Elvis Costello
#48. My mum worked as a secretary for Christian Dior. She looked like a movie star.
Patsy Kensit
#49. I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
Patsy Cline
#50. You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
Patsy Cline
#51. I didn't know there was so many people in this world that knew of me.
Patsy Cline
#52. I don't want to get rich - just live good.
Patsy Cline
#54. If you're in love with someone maybe you can show it too much.
Patsy Kensit
#55. I'm at that point again where it don't matter where he is to me anymore.
Patsy Cline
#57. I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.
Patsy Cline
#58. It takes one a long time to become young. - Picasso
Patsy Asuncion
#59. all learners benefited from the deductive instruction regardless of differences in aptitude.
Patsy M. Lightbown
#60. If you can't do it with feeling, don't.
Patsy Cline
#61. You can never have too many hats, gloves, and shoes.
Patsy Stone
#62. I think I've found out who I am and what we've been looking for. We don't have to search for my identity anymore. This is it-we're doing it!
Patsy Cline
#63. I've only ever chosen men who happen to spend a lot of time out of the country, who have jobs that take them all over the world, and I think that's interesting because my father was absent, and then home, and I've always been in relationships where there's separation.
Patsy Kensit
#64. I don't wanna be rich, just live good.
Patsy Cline
#65. I don't wanna get rich - just live good.
Patsy Cline
#67. On Saturdays I worked all day in Hunter Gaunt's drugstore in Winchester, and then at night, my mother drove me to Front Royal, where I sang pop tunes.
Patsy Cline
#68. It is easy enough to vote right and be consistently with the majority. But it is more often more important to be ahead of the majority and this means being willing to cut the first furrow in the ground and stand alone for a while if necessary.
Patsy Mink
#69. I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
Patsy Kensit
#70. In childhood I developed a serious throat infection, and my heart stopped beating. I recovered from that illness with a voice that boomed forth like Kate Smith's!
Patsy Cline
#71. It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.
Patsy Cline
#72. Unless you connect to the text, the audience won't be able to connect with you.
Patsy Rodenburg
#73. I'm having surgery today to have my face cleaned up. But it will take some fancy stitching to make me all beautiful again!
Patsy Cline
#74. I'm gonna be something one of these days.
Patsy Cline
#75. All I want is to be more famous than anything or anyone.
Patsy Kensit
#76. Sitting around the house playing the wife and mother is driving me crazy.
Patsy Cline
#77. I played with Arthur Godfrey for about a year and a half.
Patsy Cline
#78. On her marriage breakup with Liam: I can honestly say that life is fantastic now. I'm so happy that all the mess I used to have to deal with is not my mess anymore.
Patsy Kensit
#79. Up until the age of 30 I could eat whatever I wanted - I mean, literally, I never put on a pound; if anything, I was criticised in the media for being too skinny.
Patsy Kensit
#80. You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!
Patsy Cline
#81. When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.
Patsy Kensit
#82. If you have something Negative to say, then, say it in a Positive way. Don't set out to hurt people or their careers. We all deserve a fighting chance to succeed at what we do.
Patsy Whittle
#83. My new house is going to have wall-to-wall awards!
Patsy Cline
#84. Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.
Patsy Kensit
#85. Kindness Day should be everyday of your life.
Patsy Kensit
#86. Tallulah [Bankhead] never beat about the bush - she'd gossip about you in front of your back!
Patsy Kelly
#87. I could spit dust I'm so mad. He wants to put violins on my new session. I'll die before I'll go all the way pop.
Patsy Cline
#88. The problem with our education system is not that parents do not have a choice. The problem is that inequities continue to exist.
Patsy Mink
#89. Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
Patsy Cline
#90. I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.
Patsy Kensit
#91. The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Patsy Cline
#92. I would never have gone anywhere if it hadn't been for Mother's faith and support.
Patsy Cline
#93. You have to learn to work and search, not expect instantly to find.
Patsy Rodenburg
#94. In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.
Patsy Kelly
#95. It's cold enough to freeze the cliches off a Dan Browne novel. (Thought of that when working in the garden just after getting yet another 'thanks but no thanks'.)
Patsy Collins
#96. I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.
Patsy Kensit
#97. I was born blond, but I grew out of it
Nobody took man from woman
Nobody took male from female
Nobody took boy from Tom Boy
Nobody took he from she
I'm as sexist as he is
Catherine Elizabeth Clay
#98. I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
Patsy Kensit
#99. I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.
Patsy Cline
#100. There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.
Patsy Kelly
