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Patches are a nun's jewels. -- Marie Angelique Arnauld
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. -- Charles Caleb Colton
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. -- Maya Angelou
There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now. -- Thom Yorke
Soldier, there is a war between the mind And sky, between thought and day and night. It is For that the poet is always in the sun, Patches the moon together in his room To his Virgilian cadences, up down, Up down. It is a war that never ends. -- Wallace Stevens
I've been consistent in patches this season. -- Theo Walcott
Call me Patch. I mean it. Call me. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty. -- George Hamilton
The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. -- Ray Bradbury
She'll kill me if she finds you in here. Can you climb trees? Tell me you can climb a tree!" Patch grinned, "I can fly. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches. -- Tana French
What does this patch-sewing mean you ask? Eating and drinking. The heavy cloak of the body is always getting torn. You patch it with food and other ego-satisfactions. -- Rumi
Every portfolio benefits from bonds; they provide a cushion when the stock market hits a rough patch. But avoiding stocks completely could mean your investment won't grow any faster than the rate of inflation. -- Suze Orman
I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind. -- Harry S. Truman
Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well. -- P. G. Wodehouse
If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch. -- Adele
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. -- Beatrix Potter
Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening. -- James Salter
The truth is that things matter. They have to, they are what we live with and touch each and every day. They represent what we've seen, who we've loved and where we hope to go next. They remind us of the good times and the rough patches and everything in between that's made us who we are. -- Nate Berkus
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism. -- Denis Diderot
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time. -- Jack Kerouac
Much has happened since last we met, Bartimaeus," he went on. "Do you remember how we parted?" "No." I did. "You set light to me, old friend. Struck a match and left me burning in a copse." The crow shifted uneasily beneath the cleaver."That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland... -- Jonathan Stroud
Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty. -- John Lothrop Motley
I have a pirate fetish - I just always thought eye patches were sexy. -- Michelle Branch
I'm part wood nymph. I require mountains and warm, dense patches of moss to thrive. -- Vera Farmiga
Well, I mean she's of a certain biological age but she didn't have to go around with fat patches and stuff. -- Stockard Channing
I think every relationship is going to go through a few rough patches. Those are what make it stronger, I think. -- Ryan Reynolds
My paintings always feature trails that dissolve into mysterious areas, patches of light that lead the eye around corners, pathways, open gates, etc. -- Thomas Kinkade
I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches. -- Julian Sands
There are different types of love, and my love for my child is like me and my mum. We've gone through a lot of rocky patches, but we never stop loving. -- Tracey Ullman
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this. -- C. S. Forester
My issue with campaign finance is 100 percent disclosure. Wear a suit with patches from your big contributors. Depending on the size of the contribution, that's how big the patch should be. -- Gary Johnson
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and patches and most Southerners don't live there any more. -- John Shelton Reed
I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think. -- Morag Joss
Dixie has just fallen to pieces. There are little patches of Dixie. But even in the heart of Dixie - in Alabama - Dixie is slipping. They've stopped using the word in commercial listings. -- John Shelton Reed
If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control. -- Rasmus Lerdorf
I'll buy an old jacket and attach gold buttons and a couple royal patches. Or I'll find an old busted sweatshirt, tear out the zipper, and replace it with a $700 zipper. I make things my own. -- Theophilus London
It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas of what we actually see. The greenish gray patches may not be seas at all, nor the ruddy continents, solid land. Neither may the obscuring patches be clouds of vapor. -- Edward E. Barnard
When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff. -- Swizz Beatz
I have quite dark skin, and when I had my son, I suffered quite bad pigmentation; I had dark patches on my face. Everyone said it would go, but it would take a very long time for them to even slightly disappear. -- Louise Nurding
A single Dallas Cowboys football game uses up as much electricity as the entire nation of Liberia in those same three hours - one reason the globe, if looked at from a certain height, is a cluster of lights surrounded by enormous patches of dark. -- Pico Iyer
Braves fans are one-of-a-kind. Your passion to win comes close to equaling that of the players that go out on the field each and every game. But when the team goes through rough patches, you're there to encourage and cheer and believe that things will turn around. -- Tim Hudson
But there is no withdrawal, but with tobacco there is terrible withdrawal, it is almost impossible for a lot of people. I did, I went cold turkey, they never had any patches in those days but grass was not difficult, alcohol not difficult, but tobacco - oh my god. -- Larry Hagman
I always feel stupid giving advice since I've been married, what, a year? I can say this: Be in it for the long haul and just know there are going to be rough patches. No two people are the same, there are going to be areas where you just don't click. -- Nick Lachey
I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college, as I was walking across campus one day, I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done. -- John Krasinski
There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in. -- Harbhajan Singh
Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches. -- T. E. Hulme
You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things -- Victoria Azarenka
Theories are like patches on a coat, one day they just wear off. -- Sogyal Rinpoche
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. -- Frank Herbert
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Nicotine patches are great. Stick one over each eye and you can't find your fags. -- Bill Hicks
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. -- Charles Dickens
A wandering minstrel I A thing of shreds and patches Of ballads, songs and snatches And dreamy lullaby! -- Walter Raleigh
With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches up the gaps in the structure of the universe. -- Heinrich Heine
You will not even have enough time to go online and download all the patches to your computer before it is infected. -- Mikko Hypponen
By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. -- Paul Klee
I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit. -- Michelle Branch
We stitch together quilts of meaning to keep us warm and safe, with whatever patches of beauty and utility we have on hand. -- Anne Lamott
That's a gesture of endearment in some cultures. Some hug, some kiss, some set each other on fire in small patches of woodland -- Jonathan Stroud
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being. -- D. H. Lawrence
Wisdom is for statues. Humor uncaps our inhibitions, unleashes our energies, seals friendships, patches hurts. Laughing is probably the most alive you can be. -- James Wolcott
Everything that you can see in the world around you presents itself to your eyes only as an arrangement of patches of different colors. -- John Ruskin
Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh. -- John Ford
Your eyes are beautiful," he said, and she felt warm suddenly, warm in the sun that dappled through the treetops and rested on them in patches. -- Kristin Cashore
When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens. -- Tom Hodgkinson
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music. -- Rick Riordan
Iâ??d always enjoyed life, and I knew I would again. But I was going to have to slog through a lot of bad patches to get there -- Charlaine Harris
The glue of mutual need that bonded us so tightly together for all those years is melting away. Dark patches, not light, show in the spaces between us. -- Suzanne Collins
If you stand too close to a painting - all you see are patches of color, if you stand too far back, you can't see any of the detail. -- Mandy Patinkin
Life," said Simone St. James..."is stitched together from a series of mistakes, some little, some big, like the patches on the clothes we wore growin' up, you know -- Suzanne Palmieri
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray. -- Fernand Leger
All Politicians should be required to wear uniforms like Racing Car Drivers with patches showing the donations received from special interest groups so we know who has paid them off! -- John Wallace
On and on they flew, over the countryside parceled out in patches of green and brown, over roads and rivers winding through the landscapes like strips of matte and glossy ribbon. -- J. K. Rowling
Like NASCAR race drivers or PGA golfers, why not require each of the [US presidential] candidates to cover their clothing, briefcases and staff with the logo patches of their corporate sponsors? -- Jim Hightower
The genius of culture is to create an ontological system so compelling that what is inside and outside of a person are viewed as of a piece, no seams and patches noticeable. -- Richard Shweder
America is not like a blanket- one piece of unbroken cloth. America is more like a quilt- many patches, many pieces, many colors, many sizes, all woven together by a common thread. -- Jesse Jackson
If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging. -- Maxwell Perkins

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