Patrick Swayze Quotes

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. ~ Patrick Swayze

No," she said. "You are not Patrick Swayze. I am not Demi Moore." She touched a switch on the little box and it started ticking. "And this sure as hell isn't pottery class. ~ Jim Butcher

Patrick Swayze is a fantastic man and an inspiration to work with. He is a fearless cowboy type and a movie icon. ~ Travis Fimmel

I want you to be nice ... until it's time to not be nice. ~ Patrick Swayze

The longer your life goes on, the more death you face. ~ Patrick Swayze

Annd more dance time, Total Patrick Swayze time! ~ Josh Ramsay Of Marianas Trench

Life sure has a sick sense of humor, doesn't it? ~ Patrick Swayze

I thought it was all over. My lungs were filling with water and I began to black out. Then I saw an ancient warrior rise up out of the water. He said we'd make it, and we did. I believe we all have an angel watching us. ~ Patrick Swayze

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home. ~ Patrick Swayze

All you have to do is follow three simple rules. One, never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected. Two, take it outside. Never start anything inside the bar unless it's absolutely necessary. And three, be nice. ~ Patrick Swayze

When those you love die, the best you can do is honor their spirit for as long as you live. You make a commitment that you're going to take whatever lesson that person or animal was trying to teach you, and you make it true in your own life ... it's a positive way to keep their spirit alive in the world, by keeping it alive in yourself. ~ Patrick Swayze

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do. ~ Patrick Swayze

I am very, very clear on how difficult it is for a young kid out there to go into the arts without taking a lot of heat from his peers. ~ Patrick Swayze

As always, I appreciate all the love and support people have sent and continue to send my way. ~ Patrick Swayze

I don't want to be a poster child for cancer. ~ Patrick Swayze

There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff - something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it. ~ Patrick Swayze

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us. ~ Patrick Swayze

The way to screw up somebody's life is to give them what they want. ~ Patrick Swayze

I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised. ~ Patrick Swayze

If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself. ~ Patrick Swayze

When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato. ~ Patrick Swayze

It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans. ~ Patrick Swayze

I don't want to be Mr. Romantic Leading Man. I don't want to be the Dance Dude. I don't want to be the Action Guy. If I had to do any one of those all my life, it'd drive me crazy. ~ Patrick Swayze

Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on! ~ Patrick Swayze

Do you think Patrick Swayze now goes up behind people in pottery classes and hugs them just to crack up other ghosts? ~ Chris Hardwick

What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear. ~ Patrick Swayze

Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies. ~ Patrick Swayze

I just love to work hard. ~ Patrick Swayze

There's just something about dance ... It's like a primal thing in all of us. ~ Patrick Swayze

I've never been one to run from a challenge. ~ Patrick Swayze

Talent deserves to be honored. Hands deserve to be slapped if you do something stupid as well, but don't take it too far. ~ Patrick Swayze

Pain don't hurt. ~ Patrick Swayze

I will go so far as to say probably smoking had something to do with my pancreatic cancer. ~ Patrick Swayze

I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career. ~ Patrick Swayze

I learned how to deal with people with elegance from Patrick Swayze. ~ Travis Fimmel

Good-looking people turn me off. Myself included. ~ Patrick Swayze

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up. ~ Patrick Swayze

I took after my father. ~ Patrick Swayze

When you are a pit bull, and you love what you do and you are going to continue to grow, that talent will find its way out. ~ Patrick Swayze

I've had so many injuries. ~ Patrick Swayze

I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles. ~ Patrick Swayze

If I'm going to do television, I wanted that 'North and South' experience. I wanted something that's going to challenge me on a constant basis. ~ Patrick Swayze

Everything is designed to help you sell out. ~ Patrick Swayze

He looked like he might break out into an irate merengue any minute. Patrick Swayze reincarnated. ~ Kate Meader

I keep dreaming of a future, a future with a long and healthy life, not lived in the shadow of cancer but in the light. ~ Patrick Swayze

Fear causes hesitation, and hesitation will cause your worst fears to come true. ~ Patrick Swayze

If anybody had that cure out there like so many people swear to me they do, you'd be two things: you'd be very rich, and you'd be very famous. Otherwise, shut up. ~ Patrick Swayze

You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me. ~ Patrick Swayze

I think what creates a winner is a person who can connect with their partner - another human being.. connect with their soul ~ Patrick Swayze

I found that dance was key to keeping depression out of my life. When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad. There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance. ~ Patrick Swayze

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do. ~ Patrick Swayze

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people. ~ Patrick Henry

The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic ~ Patrick Leigh Fermor

Oh, it was real, all right," she says. "We lived it; we were there. If you go through something and put up with it even if you want to get away from it more than anything in the whole world, then it was definitely bloody real. ~ Patrick Ness

Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

While I was explaining to my own doctor that I was planning to undertake some serious exercise, I happened to mention that I thought I had lost quite a bit of weight since my last physical. "You didn't lose it," he said. "It just slipped around to your rear where you can't see it. ~ Patrick F. McManus

But wherever I am, whatever this world is, I've just got to be sure I'm me and that's what's real ... Know yourself and go in swinging. If it hurts when you hit it, it might be real, too. ~ Patrick Ness

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I ha said too little. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I'm vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board. ~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts. ~ Patrick Stewart

A young and clueless second-lieutenant straight out of the factory, I was very much surplus to the requirements. ~ Patrick Hennessey

Good writing should help us see the world in new ways, it should crack open our generosity towards each other. That's what I hope my work does anyway. I want someone to read it and know that they aren't alone in the universe. I want my words to act as connective tissue. ~ Patrick Hicks

What people are looking for is you. As a leader, people need you to be clear about and demonstrate a passion for your purpose. They want to know that you practice your values consistently. And they absolutely want to know that you lead from your heart as well as your head. People are not looking for you to say the perfect words. They are looking for you to show up, being absolutely real and believable. They are seeking to believe. ~ Patrick Sweeney

I expect we are all jealous of the women in their past, but how much less exciting if the women had not kept the bed warm. ~ Patrick White

Blood at the Root' is an attempt to understand how the people of my home place arrived at that moment, and to trace the origins of the 'whites only' world they fought so desperately to preserve. To do that, we will need to go all the way back to the beginning of the racial cleansing, in the violent months of September and October 1912. That was the autumn when white men first loaded their saddlebags with shotgun shells, coils of rope, cans of kerosene, and sticks of dynamite - and used them to send the black people of Forsyth County running for their lives. ~ Patrick Phillips

Their eyes had seen so much that they no longer distinguished between dream and reality. And they had so few illusions they were through asking questions of anyone, even of themselves. ~ Patrick Chamoiseau

Fear is the passion of slaves. ~ Patrick Henry

Our culture's adjustment to the epistemology of television is by now all but complete; we have so thoroughly accepted its definitions of truth, knowledge and reality that irrelevance seems to us to be filled with import, and incoherence seems eminently sane. And if some of our institutions seem not to fit the template of the times, why it is they and not the template, that seem to us disordered and strange. ~ Neil Patrick Harris

We will all lose everything, and perhaps then, by the very shape of our pain, we will earn it back. ~ Patrick Holland

And maybe, Adam thought, maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken. Maybe they just keep on beating, until they're broken again, and then they keep on beating still. ~ Patrick Ness

Basically, when I look at my life, I think I'm lucky to be given the opportunities I've had. ~ Michael Patrick Jann

Doing what's right should be easy. It shouldn't be just another big mess like everything else. ~ Patrick Ness

One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

During the Weekly Tactical, there are two overriding goals: resolution of issues and reinforcement of clarity. Obstacles need to be identified and removed, and everyone needs to be on the same page. ~ Patrick Lencioni

His eyes shifted out the window. The breeze whipped by, blowing a food wrapper across the lawn outside the window. That wrapper had the right idea. Float, run, get away from the school. ~ Patrick Reuman

Wisdom precludes boldness. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

Sometimes I go outside after a long stretch of writing and I'm surprised it's not raining. Or that it's daylight. Or that it's not the middle of winter. I don't know if that level of immersion is normal, but it's now I do things. I like it. It works well for me. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

This is exactly why Patrick and I chose not to have children." he muttered. "So we would never have to have conversations like this. Andy yet ... here I am?""If you could answer the question," I said as politely as I could, "that would be great. I really don't want to have a freaky demon baby, and I can't imagine John wants one, either ~ Meg Cabot

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me. ~ Patrick Duffy

If I no longer love Diana,' he wrote, 'what shall I do?' What could he do, with his mainspring, his prime mover gone? He had known that he would love her for ever - to the last syllable of recorded time. He had not sworn it, any more than he had sworn that the sun would rise every morning: it was too certain, too evident: no one swears that he will continue to breathe nor that twice two is four. Indeed, in such a case an oath would imply the possibility of doubt. Yet now it seemed that perpetuity meant eight years, nine months and some odd days, while the last syllable of recorded time was Wednesday, the seventeenth of May. ~ Patrick O'Brian

Everything isn't dead. Only gone. ~ Kealan Patrick Burke

Americans could achieve Jefferson's democratic freedoms through Hamilton's economic development strategies and trade policies. ~ Patrick Mendis

He stares at me, not saying a word. I stare right back, lost in his eyes and determined to get my point across. If he wants to have a staring contest, he'll lose, hands down. I know a good thing when I see it. ~ J.C. Patrick

And still you make fun," Tomassz complains, "after I am saving your life. Again. So tell me please, your inntricate knowledge of Polish references. Yes, that would be most amusing. Long, long talk now about Polish language and the words Polish people use to feel in picturesque language."
"Where did you learn English? The 1950s? ~ Patrick Ness

These were virtuoso odours, executed as wonderful little trifles that of course no one but he could admire or would ever take note of. He was enchanted by their meaningless perfection; and at no time in his life, either before or after, were there moments of such truly innocent happiness as in those days when he playfully and eagerly set about creating fragrant landscapes, still lifes and studies of individual objects. ~ Patrick Suskind

I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you! ~ Patrick Stewart

There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

A wish for a kiss
on St. Patrick's Day!
Catch a leprechaun
but don't let him run.
Nay, kiss him right away! ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family. ~ Patrick Dempsey

It is always good to strive to be like people whom you respect. Conversely, I also feel that there are not many things more depressing than finding out that you have things in common with people you detest. ~ Sean Patrick Flanery

I really like pop music, I don't think it's a four-letter word. ~ Patrick Stump

This perfume was not like any perfume known before. It was not a scent that made things smell better ... it was completely new, capable of creating a whole world, a magical, rich world, and in an instant you forgot all the loathsomeness around you and felt so rich, so at ease, so free, so fine ... ~ Patrick Suskind

It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. ~ Sean Patrick

I don't think of love in terms of relationships. It happens in terms of seconds, but it goes away like that, too. I pass a nurse, I love her, it ends when I go around a corner; at a restaurant I see a forlorn man at the table next to me, and I love him, and the conversation pulls me back, and it's ended. A patient comes in, and she is sick, and I love her, and then she dies, and I never see her again. This is what I live for. Don't think that it's sad. ~ Patrick Somerville