Top 484 Pat Quotes & Sayings

I do like Pat Conroy, and 'The Great Santini' is an iconic book.

I'll never be mistaken for Pat Boone.

If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that's it. You're not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You're not going to read that book again.

Pat Riley is the best coach I've ever had...

Look at what Al Davis has done. He hired the first Hispanic head coach (Tom Flores), the first black head coach (Art Shell), and now me. It's not a coincidence. People in sports talk a lot about inclusiveness and giving people opportunities. While they talk, I only see one person doing it. Al is the last person on Earth who'd do this for a pat on the back. A pat on the back would annoy him. He does it for the right reasons.

There was one time when we were getting beat at Highbury, and our assistant manager Pat Rice came in shouting. Arsene, in front of all of us, just went 'Pat! Sit down and be quiet!'

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

Pat has been instrumental in what we've done here so far and the most selfish thing for me is that I want to see what we've done placed in the hands of the most competent person, and that's Pat. No one would come close to being able to continue to build on what we've done here so far like he will.

I have to thank Pat Curran for a second war. It was one of the hardest fights of my life.

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.

I want to tell the world of cycling to please join me in telling Pat McQuaid to resign. I have never seen such an abuse of power in cycling's history - resign, Pat, if you love cycling. Resign even if you hate the sport.

The Grateful Dead always had their iconography down pat.

There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.

I think [Pat] Buchanan is far too easily and glibly dismissed.

I came to Berklee to study guitar, I really wanted to be a jazz guitarist, and I really came because I really wanted to come for Pat Metheny, and then when I get to Berklee, there's no Pat Metheny, he's not there, and so now what do I do?

Most of my promos are straight out of Pat Buchanan's run for election.

I wish Pat Bowlen and the Broncos' organization nothing but the best in the future.

Just remember that a pat on the back is only 18 inches from a kick in the behind.

When you think about me talking to Rick Santorum or Pat Buchanan or one of these old guys, part of what makes that a joyful experience for me is that in my head I'm thinking, He has to talk to me. Like, poor Pat Buchanan, all the things you've done and you end up having to talk to me.

People think I'm at war with Pat Rafter. It's not true.

Bachelor parties would pay a lot of money to hire Pat Buchanan to come.

During one of his uncannily well-timed impromptu visits to my restaurant, Union Square Cafe, Pat Cetta taught me how to manage people. Pat was the owner of a storied New York City steakhouse called Sparks, and by that time, he was an old pro at running a fine restaurant.

Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.

I admire Pat Shortt as a businessman. Such acumen is unusual for an entertainer. He did all his own deals. I learnt a lot from Pat when I was on the road with him for a year.

And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.

In our blessed and mostly peaceful society we're not as familiar with courage as we once were. We ascribe the virtue to all manner of endeavors that only really require skill, fortitude and a little daring, the qualities Pat Tillman showed on the football field. Pat's best service to his country was to remind us all what courage really looks like, and that the purpose of all good courage is love.

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.

I often work seven days a week. I'm not looking for a pat on the back because I love what I do.

Even some rock star girls, which I didn't really know her name. I will probably find out and probably get slaughtered for not knowing her name, but she brought some of her clothes that she used to wear on stage. I wore one of the corsets and stuff. I don't know why I'm blanking. It was not Pat Benatar. It's like Debbie Gibson, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, I know those girls.

I'm a product of Pat Riley and his culture.

If you think you're doing everything right, then you have a tendency to stand pat.

I've got Pat 'HD' Barry in my corner.

Is this a good time to pat your shoulder?

I am grateful to have had the opportunity to play for and work under the best, Pat Summitt.

Pat OBrien knows nothing. Hes on the Hell express.

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

Pat answers to complex problems are the hallmark of intellectual mediocrity

I'm not a Pat Benatar clone. I wish people would forget about that comparison.

Always do your best because a pat on the back is real close to a kick in the pants.

I have never been one to seek or want attention or admiration or a pat on the back for what I've done.

One of the greatest motivating factors is the pat on the back, although with some individuals, you have to make the pat a little lower or a little harder.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

I told Pat I want to be him for Halloween. I almost got hit and I told Pat I should stop teasing him.

Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express.

A pat on the back is six inches away from a kick up the ass.

Pat Buchanan is so homo-phobic, he blames global warming on the AIDS quilt.

Now, come over here so I can pat you down." "But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." He stood next to the armless statue. Terminus conducted a rigorous mental pat down. "You seem to be clean," Terminus decided. "Do you have anything to declare?" "Yes," Percy said. "I declare that this is stupid.

I watch NY1 every morning and have Pat Kiernan curate my news stories.

I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat.

Pat Buchanan likes to fight. But only on TV.

I think Pat Robertson is a terrific fellow.

If you can make people laugh, you know you're getting it right; it's an instant pat on the back.

I once showed Pat Bradley my swing and said, 'What do I do next?' Pat replied, 'Wait till the pain dies down.'

I met Pat Militich when I was a junior in high school when I was 16 and just started training and went from there. I went to the same high school that Pat had attended and he would bring some of his fighters out to wrestling practice to work out and I got to know him that way. I immediately like it.

I played in a movie called Ring of Fear with Clyde Beatty and Pat O'Brien.

Pat Tillman is a hero of mine.

Kids aren't scared to pat my shoulder when I come down the aisle to the ring.