Top 100 Quotes About Dewitt
#1. People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt.
Jane Wiedlin
#2. In 1979 I teamed up with my friend and business partner, Bill DeWitt, and together we formed an oil and gas company that invested through limited partnerships in oil and gas exploration.
Mercer Reynolds
#3. DeWitt: Loneliness leads to nothing good, only detachment. And sometimes the people who most need to reach out are the people least capable of it.
Jane Espenson
#4. Butch, you come from DeWitt Clinton. There are five thousand brothers in that school. You're the best there. You've been all-city two years in a row. How bad can you be? You come with me and we'll make nice music.
Al McGuire
#5. There are the jobs you get that do something for your confidence, like "I can do this with my life" kind of thing. And then, there are the jobs that maybe bring a certain level of awareness about you as an actor where other people feel like they can hire you.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#6. Hollywood is a very interesting place to deal with. And having been a theatre person, I was quite surprised by the slipperiness of some people in Holly-weird. There was a part of me that just said, 'If this is the way the game is played, I'm not sure I want to play it.'
Joyce DeWitt
#7. If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport.
Helen DeWitt
#8. You are afraid of hell. But that's all religion is, really. Fear of a place we'd rather not be, and where there's no such a thing as suicide to steal us away.
Patrick DeWitt
#9. The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in westerns, or there's a minimal amount of it.
Patrick DeWitt
#10. I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.
Patrick DeWitt
#11. I sighed. 'It doesn't matter what we do. Money comes and goes.' I shook my head. 'It doesn't matter and you know it doesn't.
Patrick DeWitt
#12. [ ... ] and unfortunately most women did not seem to have the same urges. Or if they did, they wouldn't admit it. They probably didn't, anyway. But if they did they wouldn't admit it.
Helen DeWitt
#13. For me, there are a lot of things you can imagine as an actor, and then there are things that you know in your bones and in your cells once they happen to you.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#14. I almost vomited in the boot! I was just about to vomit in the boot! Can you imagine how upset I would have been?
Patrick DeWitt
#15. People call me and ask me for advice all the time. On an elevator they tell me their problems. I think it's in part because I'm Italian so I'm emotionally available and I have a friendly persona.
Joyce DeWitt
#16. My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
Patrick DeWitt
#17. I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
Dewitt Bodeen
#18. Despite Tub's eye wound he never so much as stumbled, and I felt for the first time that we knew and understood each other; I sensed in him a desire to improve himself, which perhaps was whimsy or wishful thinking on my part, but such are the musings of the traveling man. The
Patrick DeWitt
#19. The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
Patrick DeWitt
#20. There is nothing typical about my profession.' Suddenly I did not want to talk about it any longer. 'I don't want to talk about it any longer.
Patrick DeWitt
#21. It's not trespassing to go beyond your own boundaries.
Dewitt Jones
#22. My mother practiced hours every day, hours as painful to hear as to play. At first everybody thought she would give in. Day followed day, and the terrible stumbling sounds went on for hours on end.
She did not know what else to do.
Helen DeWitt
#24. I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
Patrick DeWitt
#25. Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior." "Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir.
Patrick DeWitt
#26. Walking away on the springy legs of a foal he thought, How remarkable a thing a lie is. He wondered if it wasn't man's finest achievement, and after some consideration, he decided it was.
Patrick DeWitt
#27. I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
Patrick DeWitt
#28. I like to see a home like this, a home connected with people's thoughts and work, things they love.
Dewitt Bodeen
#29. She wasn't precisely sure what she was walking toward but she wouldn't have turned around for the world.
Patrick DeWitt
#30. The effects of her words stung me, and after she stole away I stood a long while before her looking glass, studying my profile, the line I cut in this world of men and ladies.
Patrick DeWitt
#31. Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin.
Patrick DeWitt
#32. The initial spark, your affection for the characters, all those things can disappear. It's a perilous thing.
Patrick DeWitt
#33. I don't know that happy people are interesting to write about - or to read about.
Patrick DeWitt
#34. I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.
Patrick DeWitt
#35. I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you.
Dewitt Jones
#36. My interest in words and literature is always changing. And every day of work is different, and it doesn't feel laborious in the way that, say, washing dishes did. I'm quite happy to be doing what I'm doing, and I feel very lucky.
Patrick DeWitt
#37. I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick DeWitt
#38. I was often forced to whip him, which some men do not mind doing and which in fact some enjoy doing, but which I did not like to do; and afterward he, Tub, believes me cruel and thought to himself, Sad life, sad life.
Patrick DeWitt
#40. By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, I washed dishes for a living. I had no high-school diploma, I had no agent, and my literary successes were non-existent ... but it was the only thing I ever wanted to do, so I did feel trapped.
Patrick DeWitt
#41. In a Time/CNN poll of 1,000 Americans conducted last week by Yankelovich Partners, two-thirds said it was more important to protect the privacy of phone calls than to preserve the ability of police to conduct wiretaps. When informed about the Clipper Chip, 80% said they opposed it.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt
#42. Do we choose to see possibilities? Do we really believe that they're there? Perception controls our reality, and if we don't believe it, we won't see it.
Dewitt Jones
#43. Just your everyday grouping of civilized gentlemen, sitting in a round robin to discuss the events of the day with quivering erections.
Patrick DeWitt
#44. But I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that I emerged victorious.
Patrick DeWitt
#45. Well, I don't see any other ones around...
Helen DeWitt
#46. Without sin, what grace has forgiveness
Anonymous
#47. I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for several minutes I simply stood in the hall shifting my weight and breathing and attempting to clear my mind of every recognizable thought.
Patrick DeWitt
#48. Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly.
Patrick DeWitt
#49. Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.
Dewitt Bodeen
#50. Nature shows me incredible beauty standing just beyond the rat race. It's always there if I'm open enough to see it.
Dewitt Jones
#51. I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?
Patrick DeWitt
#52. Returning his pen to its holder, he told us, 'I will have him gutted with that scythe. I will hang him by his own intestines.' At this piece of dramatic exposition, I could not hep but roll my eyes. A length of intestines would not carry the weight of a child, much less a full grown man.
Patrick DeWitt
#53. I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.
Patrick DeWitt
#54. Inside beauty sometimes needs a little help from outside pretty.
Karen DeWitt
#55. I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be.
Patrick DeWitt
#56. A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish ... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?
Patrick DeWitt
#57. The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it.
Dewitt Jones
#58. If you don't like a language, you can go write your own.
Helen DeWitt
#59. We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.
Dewitt Jones
#60. Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
Patrick DeWitt
#61. Why were you feeling low?' 'Why does anyone? It creeps up on you from time to time.
Patrick DeWitt
#62. The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it. I've carved a life out for myself in Oregon, and it feels like home, not because it's the States but because that's where my friends are and where my son is.
Patrick DeWitt
#63. He is not bad, I don't think. Perhaps he is simply too lazy to be good.
Patrick DeWitt
#64. I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
Patrick DeWitt
#65. Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.
William DeWitt Hyde
#66. You return to your car and find a note on the windshield: 'where did you go?' the note is not signed and the love in your heart is gone. It feels as if it was never there at all.
Patrick DeWitt
#67. Actors are always weird about acting with their spouse or their boyfriend or girlfriend, but more because they think audiences will find it boring.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#68. Everyone has their first date and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship, and it's all about hiding your disappointment. And then, once you're married, it's about hiding your sins.
Joss Whedon
#69. I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#70. I reckon I probably worked for Euripides a long time ago. I do think we have many Earth walks and it's possible that he's an old friend. Does that sound too stupid for words? Quite frankly I think I've been an actor in so many lifetimes.
Joyce DeWitt
#71. I am happy to welcome you to a town peopled in morons exclusively. Furthermore, I hope that your transformation to moron is not an unpleasant experience.
Patrick DeWitt
#72. Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
Patrick DeWitt
#73. I felt a premonitory concern they would never revisit it.
Patrick DeWitt
#74. He blinks and says that there are two types of people: Those who want to cry, and those who are crying already and want to stop.
Patrick DeWitt
#75. Even as fog continues to lie in the valleys, so does ancient sin cling to the low places, the depressions in the world consciousness.
Dewitt Bodeen
#76. It occurred to him that, much in the way one experiences a brightening when walking beneath a cherry tree in bloom,so too did Klara generate and throw light.
Patrick DeWitt
#77. The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
Patrick DeWitt
#78. More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.
Patrick DeWitt
#79. When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
Patrick DeWitt
#80. The question of likability is a bit of a puzzler for me. You know, I don't write people with likability in mind. It's more whether or not I find them compelling.
Patrick DeWitt
#81. What does one tell a husband? One tells him nothing.
Dewitt Bodeen
#82. Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead.
Patrick DeWitt
#83. One of my teachers says the sound you hear in the center of the universe is laughter. I don't know if it's true, but if you do something and 30 years later it still produces laughter, that's a fantasy you can't make up.
Joyce DeWitt
#84. I look upon my past with disgrace. I was herded and instructed. But I will be herded and instructed no more. Today I am born anew, and my life will become my own again. It will be different ever after.
Patrick DeWitt
#85. Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of craftsmanship, I can't help but admire the liar.
Patrick DeWitt
#86. The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.
Helen DeWitt
#87. You will know it, Charlie, if my burden becomes unbearable. You will know it and so will he.
Patrick DeWitt
#89. Growing up I was a total movie-holic, but I always wanted to play the role that Clark Gable was playing or Spencer Tracy was playing. I was really never interested in the parts that women were playing. I found the parts that guys were playing were so much more interesting.
Joyce DeWitt
#91. I thought, Perhaps a man is never meant to be truly happy. Perhaps there is no such a thing in our world, after all. As
Patrick DeWitt
#92. The experience of beauty does something profound and powerful within the heart and soul of every human being. Beauty creates wonder in us.
Steve DeWitt
#93. I think of myself as somebody who, in a moment-to-moment way, I'm quite happy. But I think I am a bit doubtful and wary of true happiness, and, like a lot of my friends, there's been a good degree of self-sabotage.
Patrick DeWitt
#94. 'The Sisters Brothers' has endeared so many prize juries because the Western format has more of a broad appeal and is familiar to readers.
Patrick DeWitt
#95. I find the constant upkeep of the body woefully fatiguing, don't you?
Patrick DeWitt
#96. What of the melancholy, may I ask?"
"Stubbornly persistent, I'm sorry to say."
"If only modest joy were so dogged, eh?"
"You said something there, sir.
Patrick DeWitt
#97. In other words, art is a realm entirely separated from the interests of real life-a refuge for detached and gifted souls from sordid political and economic struggles.
DeWitt Henry Parker
#98. Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools.
Helen DeWitt
#99. And I think a lot of us have fantasies of going back to where we're from, or when we do go back we're so nostalgic about it.
Rosemarie DeWitt
#100. I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
Patrick DeWitt
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