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Valentine's Day is the hardest day of the year for a woman to get out, but everybody who is anybody and single is out that night.
— Patti Stanger
Blessedness is within us all.
— Patti Smith
Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.
— Patti LuPone
He picks the lock of her dreams with her own hairpin.
— Patti Smith
First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.
— Patti Smith
I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.
— Patti LaBelle
I like Patti Smith's lyrics, and sometimes think I could be influenced by them. But she has a kind of cool that's beyond me.
— Alice Oswald
A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
— Patti LuPone
Artists, musicians, scientists - if you have any kind of visionary aptitude, it's often something that you don't have a choice in. You have to do it.
— Patti Smith
I got some coffee and stood looking at the sky.
— Patti Smith
Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line
you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith
you have your own interior world, and it's not neat. — Patti Smith
a black granite cube containing only the character mu
— Patti Smith
I think masturbating is a really important function in art. People don't like to hear that kind of stuff, but it's true.
— Patti Smith
The thing is, it's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
— Patti Smith
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
— Patti Smith
God doesn't do the work for you; he does the work through you. It's not enough to look up; you must also look within.
— Patti LaBelle
When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.
— Patti Smith
I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here.
— Patti LaBelle
I'm so grounded, it's sad.
— Patti LaBelle
The Chelsea was like a doll's house in the Twilight Zone, with a hundred rooms, each a small universe.
— Patti Smith
I think the last book I cried in was Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I don't shy away from crying, though. I actually really enjoy being moved like that.
— Albert Hammond Jr.
Well now," the dragon says to her in a voice like rolling thunder, "who are you really here to save?
— Patti Larsen
Life is like a roller coaster. It's never going to be perfect - it is going to have perfect moments, and then rough spots, but it's all worth it.
— Patti Smith
Good news doesn't necessarily have to be a positive thing. Bringing good news is imparting hope to one's fellow man.
— Patti Smith
In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time.
— Patti LuPone
If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.
— Patti Smith
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
— Patti Smith
Sure I destroyed my guitar at every concert, but it was okay, because I'd always get a shiny new one the very next day.
— Patti Smith
I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.
— Patti Smith
Good press, bad press, whatever, only means a lot to me if it's writ by somebody I respect, by somebody I like.
— Patti Smith
Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.
— Patti Scialfa
I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
— Patti Smith
The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.
— Patti Smith
I'm a very stereotypical person ... and that's part of my flavor, I guess, because I tell it like it is.
— Patti Stanger
People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.
— Patti Davis
All the traumas I went through separating art from writing don't exist anymore. That's why I love being in rock 'n' roll. It's a whole life thing.
— Patti Smith
To be an artist - actually, to be a human being in these times - it's all difficult. ... What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
— Patti Smith
I think we can work through a lot of political and international problems, but what really frightens me is what's happening environmentally.
— Patti Davis
There's always new stuff, that's for sure.
— Patti Smith
It's not hard to find a date if you are Jewish in New York and Miami, but its hard in Texas.
— Patti Stanger
I'm pretty moral about what I do. If I didn't think I was worthy of doing something, I wouldn't do it. I ain't gonna waste a bunch of people's time.
— Patti Smith
Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine.
— Patti Smith
I tried to write something about Jesse but couldn't, as her face echoed her father's and the proud palace where the ghosts of our old life dwell.
— Patti Smith
Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.
— Patti Smith
The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
— Patti LuPone
Who can know the heart of youth except youth itself.
— Patti Smith
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
— Patti Smith
Take yourself out of the center of other people's universe - it will free you up and let the universe turn more easily.
— Patti Digh
Christianity made us think there's one heaven.
— Patti Smith
It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.
— Patti Stanger
Rock n' roll is dream soup, what's your brand?
— Patti Smith
In the end, it's all about taking your time and enjoying the journey without worrying too much about the destination.
— Patti Stanger
Mohammed personally mapped out seven heavens. If he got to seven, you know there's more.
— Patti Smith
When I look into the crowd, I see young and old, black and white - it's amazing that I'm able to connect with so many different kinds of people.
— Patti LaBelle
It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)
— Patti Smith
I love my little overgrown yard. And my house is wonderful. It's everything that I need.
— Patti Smith
I just create, that's what I do.
— Patti LuPone
I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that.
— Patti Davis
The best substitute for money is ingenuity ...
— Patti Page
You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
— Patti Smith
I'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.
— Patti LuPone
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
— Patti Smith
It's not so easy writing about nothing.
— Patti Smith
Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.
— Patti LaBelle
I'm very comfortable writing in the first person; it dives into the character in a way that's difficult if you're writing in the third person.
— Patti Davis
My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.
— Patti Smith
I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.
— Patti LaBelle
I don't think it's an accident who our parents are; I believe we choose them. So maybe I chose my parents in order to effect change.
— Patti Davis
There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
— Patti Smith
I think it's important for people to realize that we were all young, all naive, and also we had lived in a time that had magic.
— Patti Smith
When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
— Patti Smith
To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.
— Patti Smith
My son and daughter lost their father quite young, so we keep him present with us. It's just a daily practice.
— Patti Smith
What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
— Patti Page
Pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
— Patti Smith
I clawed through a thick web of the culture's consciousness that I hadn't known existed.
— Patti Smith
I'd never had people drive me around, and then all of a sudden, if a car didn't come, I'd say, "Where's my car?"
— Patti Smith
Those are the facts. It's easy to believe in facts, my dear. To believe in the story you need faith. Tell me the story as you experienced it.
— Patti Callahan Henry
A good artist's always got his hand in his zipper.
— Patti Smith