Dewitt Quotes

Hollywood can be brutal, inhuman, the opposite of what the theatre is, and I had little desire to be part of it. — Joyce DeWitt

and that Eli, is how you got your freckles — Patrick DeWitt

I do believe in the value of ideas - and that eventually they get a man somewhere. — DeWitt Wallace

Come with me into the world and reclaim your independence. You stand to gain so much, and riches are the least of it. — Patrick DeWitt

I don't suppose I have a choice.'
'As with so many things in a life, brother, I don't suppose you do. — Patrick DeWitt

Some wear greed as a fine suit of clothes. But you, my son, bear its stamp ever more poorly. — Patrick DeWitt

Let us look within ourselves and search out the dormant warrior." "Mine is dormant to the point of non-existence, sir. — Patrick DeWitt

Beware of the plygs of Colorado City, Arizona. They have no cups of coffee for the likes of you. — Patrick DeWitt

The temperate man is the strong man. — William DeWitt Hyde

Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me. — Patrick DeWitt

I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation. — Patrick DeWitt

Things I had come to find humor in would make your honest man swoon. — Patrick DeWitt

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

The world is an astounding place, and we can see it every day, if we're open to it. — Dewitt Jones

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

The ability to play is essential to being a creative artist. — Dewitt Jones

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes. — Dewitt Jones

Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there. — Patrick DeWitt

I find the constant upkeep of the body woefully fatiguing, don't you? — Patrick DeWitt

If you don't like a language, you can go write your own. — Helen DeWitt

Work will drive you crazy if you let it. — Patrick DeWitt

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him. — Patrick DeWitt

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

I am a homebody, something that lends itself to my profession. — Patrick DeWitt

There is a feeling here, which if it gets you, will envenom your very center. It is a madness of possibilities. — Patrick DeWitt

I cannot understand the motivation of a bully, is what it is; this is the one thing that makes me unreasonable. I — Patrick DeWitt

I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either. — Patrick DeWitt

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

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

Hurried business is bad business. — Patrick DeWitt

When you sleep, your dreams are those of a dullard — Patrick DeWitt

Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter. — Patrick DeWitt

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself. — Patrick DeWitt

You always bring God into arguments you know you're losing, for the liar is lonely, and welcomes all manner of company. — Patrick DeWitt

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

I lay in the dark thinking about the difficulties of family, how crazy and crooked the stories of a bloodline can be. — Patrick DeWitt

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. — DeWitt Clinton

This marked the end of our toothbrush conversation. — Patrick DeWitt

There's always another right answer. — Dewitt Jones

When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble. — Patrick DeWitt

Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work. — Patrick DeWitt

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity. — Rosemarie DeWitt

As I celebrated what was right with the world, I began to build a vision of possibility, not scarcity. Possibility ... always another right answer. — Dewitt Jones

See the world with new eyes every day. — Dewitt Jones

Don't be the best in the world. Be the best for the world. — Dewitt Jones

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art. — Helen DeWitt

I grew up in the suburbs. — Rosemarie DeWitt

If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong. — Patrick DeWitt

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

I think actors always have that fear of unemployment so when the opportunities are there, you just jump on them. — Rosemarie DeWitt

Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary. — Dewitt Jones

When you decide you're going to join a project, it's all about the gift you're giving the audience. — Joyce DeWitt

I kind of moved out of the town I grew up in as quick as I could. I left right after high school. — Rosemarie DeWitt

Perhaps this is the root of all evil, that gardeners are not put in charge of our schools. — Helen DeWitt

I started on the stage when I was 13 and I consider the stage my home. — Joyce DeWitt

When we believe it, we will see it! — Dewitt Jones

People have always told me a lot that I remind them of Joyce DeWitt. — Jane Wiedlin

Waste in all its forms is to be abhorred ... I deplore giving money to an institution that is careless in its expenditures. — DeWitt Wallace

An opportunity is a conjunction of circumstances by which one may improve his condition of life or his equipment for life. — William DeWitt Hyde

His heart was a church of his own choosing,
and the lights came through
the colourful windows. — Patrick DeWitt

I'm done talking about your horse, Eli.' 'If you think it will not come up again, you are mistaken. — Patrick DeWitt

It is true, I thought. I am living a life. — Patrick DeWitt

If that's the way the game is played, I don't want to play anymore. — Joyce DeWitt

I can do what I love or I can love what I do. Learn to love the task in front of you. — Dewitt Jones

All I know, boy, is that life is, on occasion, entirely too vast for my tastes. — Patrick DeWitt

I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist. — Patrick DeWitt

Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does. — Philip Elmer-DeWitt

The idea is this: It's important to upset one's work habits, to topple the cart for each project. — Patrick DeWitt

I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic. — Patrick DeWitt

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing. — Patrick DeWitt

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

Dream the dream, find that extraordinary vision, and keep it in focus. — Dewitt Jones

I haven't read hardly any Westerns, to tell you the truth. — Patrick DeWitt

He makes good time for a hysterical man on foot. — Patrick DeWitt

It's healthy to have interests besides books. — Patrick DeWitt

I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong. — Patrick DeWitt

Our blood is the same, we just use it differently. — Patrick DeWitt

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot. — Dewitt Bodeen

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

The Internet, of course, is more than a place to find pictures of people having sex with dogs. — Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Where is your mother, Charlie asked. Dead. I'm sorry to hear that Thank you. But she was always dead. — Patrick DeWitt

I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it. — Patrick DeWitt

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too. — Joyce DeWitt

By celebrating what's right with the world, we find the energy to fix what's wrong. — Dewitt Jones

Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them. — Patrick DeWitt

He wandered here and there over rolling hills.
He never saw the ocean but
dreamed of it often enough. — Patrick DeWitt

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future. — William DeWitt Hyde

She wasn't precisely sure what she was walking toward but she wouldn't have turned around for the world. — Patrick DeWitt

Every once in a while in an actor's life, a cast comes together. — Joyce DeWitt

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

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed. — Patrick DeWitt

Well, I don't see any other ones around... — Helen DeWitt

Some people make headlines while others make history. — Philip Elmer-DeWitt

Without sin, what grace has forgiveness — Anonymous

He only wished to fight and cultivate an anger toward me, thus alleviating his guilt, but I would not abet him in this. — Patrick DeWitt

I feel lucky to be an actor because you always learn something from each part you play. — Rosemarie DeWitt

Skepticism is my nature. Free Thought is my methodology. Agnosticism is my conclusion. Atheism is my opinion. Humanitarianism is my motivation. — Jerry DeWitt

The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away. — DeWitt Wallace

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness. — Patrick DeWitt

My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting. — Patrick DeWitt