Patter Quotes

32 quotes by 29 authors

Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want… — John Dos Passos
Nobody is one block of harmony. We are all afraid of something, or feel limited in something. We all need somebody to talk to. It… — Liv Ullmann
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in… — Alexander Koblencs
Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is… — Robin Williams
There's something wonderfully exciting about the quiet sing song of an aeroplane overhead with all the guns in creation lighting out at it, and searchlights… — John Dos Passos
Now the noisy winds are still; April's coming up the hill! All the spring is in her train, Led by shining ranks of rain; Pit,… — Mary Mapes Dodge
Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents. — Luke Rhinehart
Hateful, blasphemous, prejudiced, vulgar, rude, or ignorant remarks are the music of a free society, and the relentless patter of idiots is how we know… — Daniel Gilbert
The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and… — Paul Robeson
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written. — Rita Coolidge
I am still working on patter and presentation. — Paul Daniels
It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition.… — Richard Rosen
Ah, the patter of little feet around the house. There's nothing like having a midget for a butler. — W.C. Fields
I'm sure there's going to be some material from This Is Not Going To Be Pretty. I usually use that song to just introduce myself… — Harvey Fierstein
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. — Jean Paul
We've begun to long for the pitter-patter of little feet - so we bought a dog. Well, it's cheaper, and you get more feet. — Rita Rudner
Go back?" he thought. "No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!" So up he got, and… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter… — Bruce Lee
I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the… — Haruki Murakami

Who Wrote These Patter Quotes

29 authors contributed a total of 32 Patter Quotes, led by these top contributors: