Top 93 Patten Quotes
#1. It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
Chris Patten
#2. If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs ... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big.
Dick Van Patten
#3. Hong Kong's people will get what they want, despite China's objections. Freedom invariably wins in the end.
Chris Patten
#4. My four friends were John Kerr, who became a star, Paul Newman, Jimmy Dean, and Jack Lemmon.
Dick Van Patten
#5. I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
Dick Van Patten
#6. On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.
Brian Patten
#7. Death is the only grammatically correct full stop.
Brian Patten
#8. When in public poetry should take off its clothes and wave to the nearest person in sight; it should be seen in the company of thieves and lovers rather than that of journalists and publishers.
Brian Patten
#9. I believe in trying to get a balance between individual freedom on the one hand and social responsibility on the other.
Chris Patten
#10. Sometimes the hardest things to believe are the only things worth believing at al.
E.J. Patten
#11. Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.
Chris Patten
#12. It was just an accident; I was never going to come out here.
Dick Van Patten
#13. Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,.
Chris Patten
#14. I appreciate Eight is Enough. It made me recognizable.
Dick Van Patten
#15. I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.
Dick Van Patten
#16. I've seen people that don't treat their animals well and yet their animals are still just as loving to them even though they're not treated that well. It's very hard to find that kind of loyalty and love and affection in human beings.
Dick Van Patten
#17. A good
trap, like a good story, has to arise naturally from the environment.
It has to be seamless. If the prey suspects what's coming,
they'll bolt.
E.J. Patten
#18. It's hardly the time for sense, I should think, since nonsense
has been serving us so well
E.J. Patten
#19. I've been to more racetracks than any other person I've met. Almost every track, missing only a few of the newer ones.
Dick Van Patten
#20. Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.
Chris Patten
#21. I come from New York originally, but Californians have been wonderful about animals. These animals are so nice and so good and so sweet and intelligent. It's a crime not to help them.
Dick Van Patten
#22. From the time I was 8 years old I was on almost every radio show there was.
Dick Van Patten
#24. Undoubtedly, at the moment, the major cause of CO2 emission is what happens in developed countries.
Chris Patten
#25. Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable, ... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.
Chris Patten
#26. It is almost always wrong that the time isn't ripe to decide something. That is always said of difficult problems.
Chris Patten
#27. The only honest reaction and true loyalty we get is from our animals. Once they're your friends, you can do no wrong.
Dick Van Patten
#28. I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
Dick Van Patten
#29. Multilateralism is not an easy option. We're going to find that the world is very difficult. And relationships between America and the rest of the world are very difficult.
Chris Patten
#30. I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.
Chris Patten
#31. And power without compassion is the worst kind of evil there is.
E.J. Patten
#32. You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.
Dick Van Patten
#34. In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
Chris Patten
#35. Havens reached into his ear and pinched enough of the latex with his fingernails to withdraw the device. He dropped it on the ground and crushed it under his foot. He didn't care if it was found. It was French-made. Procured for that very purpose.
F*** overwatch. Screw the French.
J.T. Patten
#36. You're working with the same people, and there's a lot of recognition. I like to do series best. I really do.
Dick Van Patten
#37. I'm always working on our home, but I want to keep the old look to it.
Dick Van Patten
#38. I've titled this book 'Eighty Is Not Enough' not just for the obvious play on words, but as a way of expressing the single idea that has governed my entire life, that every moment of life is precious, that every step we take is an adventure, that every day on earth is a gift from God.
Dick Van Patten
#39. I've had a great life. It was exciting. I worked with the most interesting people, and I traveled all over the country.
Dick Van Patten
#40. We're very lucky people, doing something that we really love to do. I feel privileged to have been an actor all my life.
Dick Van Patten
#41. I've probably had more jobs than any other actor living.
Dick Van Patten
#42. I got what they called a diabetic stroke. Here's what it is, my left hand and my left leg. You know when your leg falls asleep? It's like that constantly. It's not painful, but it's so annoying. My leg is all tingly and my arm is all tingly.
Dick Van Patten
#43. He continued along the route that he had reconnoitered the morning before. And the morning before that. He needed to change his route some to see if he was actually being followed. His instincts said he was clear, but his training ordered him to make sure.
J.T. Patten
#44. A good trap is like a good story: hidden and leading toward
one inevitable conclusion
E.J. Patten
#45. People don't like to feed live mice and rats to their snakes. Now we have a regular meat food that they will eat. Ninety percent of the snakes will eat this food and love it.
Dick Van Patten
#46. But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Chris Patten
#47. [The poll tax] was a classic case of a good idea being entrusted to Chris Patten and becoming a terrible failure.
Norman Tebbit
#49. Dreams are merely life asleep.
Wake them up...
J.W. Patten
#50. We're feeding all these zoos. And that's getting bigger and bigger.
Dick Van Patten
#51. Freakin' fairies, you're too damn small!"
"Dude, you're a faecist."
"A what?"
"A fae-racist, you're a faecist."
"That's not even a real word!"
"Patten pending,
S.L.J. Shortt
#54. It used to be said all horse players die broke - you can't beat the races. But today, with the Pick 6's and Superfectas, you can. Not that the odds aren't against you, but a good hit, and it's hard to blow that back.
Dick Van Patten
#55. It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.
Chris Patten
#56. I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.
Chris Patten
#57. Bloody my nose, freeze my nipples, give me blue balls, what else are you going to do to me today?
Jill Patten
#58. Tom Bradford is a lot like the real me. He's a man who always put his career second to his family. As long as everything was OK at home, he was OK, too.
Dick Van Patten
#59. Through silence only the good messages go unheard.
Brian Patten
#60. I don't think that capitalism should be unbridled, if by 'unbridled' you mean unregulated.
Chris Patten
#61. It behaves more like a tribe than a democratic institution ... responding to custom rather than reason and using its own liturgy and language for the conduct of its domestic affairs.
Chris Patten
#62. I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well.
Dick Van Patten
#63. I used to go from one job to another. I started at seven years old in theater and used to go from one job to another.
Dick Van Patten
#64. There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.
Chris Patten
#65. For nearly eight decades, I've had the great fortune of playing thousands of roles before millions of people.
Dick Van Patten
#66. The new morality does not consist in saving but in expanding consumption.
Simon N. Patten
#67. Life can be difficult sometimes, it gets bumpy. What with family and kids and things not going exactly like you planned. But that's what makes it interesting. In life the first act is always exciting. The second act, that is where the depth comes in.
Joyce Van Patten
#68. A grape may become a raisin, and taste the sweeter for it, but even a raisin rot on the vine, if you do nothing for it.
E.J. Patten
#69. Anyone who supposed that when Margaret Thatcher left Number Ten she was going to take a Trappist vow did not know that formidable politician.
Chris Patten
#70. We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.
Chris Patten
#71. The Giant rested back in his chair. "You've some stories left," he said. " I can smell them on your skin.
Brian Patten
#72. Dreams larger
than ourselves we killed, not wanting
our smallness measured against them."
(poem: Having Taken the Necessary Precautions)
Brian Patten
#73. So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.
Chris Patten
#74. I like to do TV series. I think they're so comfortable. You're doing the same part every week.
Dick Van Patten
#75. I look back with a mix of emotions: sadness for the people who are gone, nostalgia for times that have passed, but immense gratitude for the wonderful opportunities that came my way.
Dick Van Patten
#77. You love with a fierce courage that I do not understand, and yet I wish that I could have it too.
Douglas Patten
#78. All parts of the society need to feel that the police service is their police service, and that does not happen unless all parts of society are represented in the police
Chris Patten
#79. How are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words ...
John Geddes
#80. A trap, like a good
story, needs to hint at greater things without revealing them
until the prey is snared.
E.J. Patten
#81. Those of us who had a perfectly happy childhood should be able to sue for deprivation of literary royalties.
Chris Patten
#82. In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.
Joyce Van Patten
#83. I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
Chris Patten
#84. A wry smile crossed Havens' lips. Pork here in an overwhelmingly Muslim population was a stupid thought, even for self-talk.
OK, turkey bacon.
J.T. Patten
#86. I may eat nine bowls of dog food, because eight isn't enough.
Dick Van Patten
#87. The family's first, and the career is second. I could get fired from a show. As long as everything's okay with my family, it really would not bother me.
Dick Van Patten
#88. You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.
Chris Patten
#89. Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.
Andy Summers
#90. We wanted a pet food based on sound scientific principles and truth, not marketing hype.
Dick Van Patten
#91. In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Chris Patten
#92. We waited until we perfected the dog food, and then we worked on the cat food. Even though it's not going through the roof the way the dog food is, I think it will catch on eventually.
Dick Van Patten
#93. I was a child actor in radio, and there's not many of us left.
Dick Van Patten
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