Patrick > Patrick's Quotes

“A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-
Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars.”
― Robert W. Service

“When you get to pass between the mountains, leave your rucksack behind. You won't need the compass anymore.”
― Patrick Egan

“A half-dead thing in a stark dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold.”
― Robert W. Service

“There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

“To feel safe and warm on a cold wet night, all you really need is soup.”
― Laurie Colwin

“Laughter is carbonated holiness.”
― Anne Lamott

“The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments with something constant and tangible.

If you watch the flowing sand, you might see time itself riding the granules.

Contrary to popular opinion, time is not an old white-haired man, but a laughing child.

And time sings.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“At the same time I grew increasingly dissatisfied and irritable with what we are prone to call normal life. Except for wine, music, and books, I disliked shopping. Television grated on my nerves, the commercials in particular, so I got rid of the television. I found it harder and harder to rouse any interest in sports, celebrities, electronic gadgets, the chatter of the culture, the latest this or that. Nor did I have any desire to own a house, or get rich, or start a family. I wanted to keep traveling and see the world, live an eventful, unpredictable life with as much personal freedom as possible, and have a few adventures along the way.”
― Richard Grant, God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre

“It’s why the Delta doesn’t progress. It’s not having anything, and not really wanting anything, because that would mean change. That would mean taking on more responsibility. Too many of our people are not interested in progress and change.”
― Richard Grant, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

“that it was good for different cultures to come together, and chip away at human prejudice one party at a time.”
― Richard Grant, Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta

“Drink in the moon as though you might die of thirst.”
― Sanober Khan