Quote by Patti Smith Download Open image ““Everything I came up with seemed irreverent or irrelevant.”” — Patti Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Or rather, it’s a bunch of what happened that ends up being about nothing at all.” — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the things that don't seem like much much, become the very ones that define us.” — Bibiana Krall Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do.” — Hilary Thayer Hamann Copy Share Image
“But they made me realize more than I ever had the rarity of true originality, and also the sort of alienation it might involve.” — Elizabeth Bishop Copy Share Image
“When you only had words, you had to make up for things, say what you might not need to otherwise.” — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“The truth is always made up of little particulars which sound ridiculous when repeated.” — Thomas Berger Copy Share Image
“Wasn't it just so typical that all the things you never really meant to say were the very ones that came back around to… — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Things change all the time - abruptly, unpredictably, and often for no good reason. But knowing that didn't do you that much good, apparently.” — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
“And what’s true sometimes isn’t nearly as important as what people believe to be true.” — John G. Hemry Copy Share Image
“Another of those things that must be true because everyone else agrees they are, although they don’t seem so to me.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Sometimes [people] seem to think I came out of the womb, you know, cursing, with an electric guitar. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Inside it he inscribed a few lines of poetry, portraying us as the gypsy and the fool, one creating silence; one listening closely to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“I clawed through a thick web of the culture’s consciousness that I hadn’t known existed.” — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Ultimately, we are not seeking others to bow to, but to reinforce our individual natures, to help us suffer our own choices, to guide… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If I'm taking a picture of Brancusi's grave, I know that there's something of him, of his mortal remains, beneath my feet, and there's… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I'm certain, as we filled down the great staircase, that I appeared the same as ever, a moping twelve years-old, all arms and legs.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
New York is the thing that seduced me. New York is the thing that formed me. New York is the thing that deformed me.… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't wanna be equal with anybody. I wanna be above equal. I don't think most people are equal to me. I'd like to… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image