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Quotes About Patches

Well it's interesting because we use the word brand in a very derogatory way a lot of the time. I do it as much as anyone. But i think a brand is also sort of like momentum; it gets you through the bad patches if you've got a good brand.
~ Grayson Perry
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
After a while a three-quarter moon eased up over the treeline and the dusty road went white as milk, Rorshach patches of grass bleeding through the white dust that rose and subsided with Boyd's footfalls.
~ William Gay
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
A king of shreds and patches.
~ William Shakespeare
Merit badges are these little patches you get for learning how to do all sorts of manly stuff.
~ Jeff Kinney
The sun had already turned the blue-black asphalt into soft, bubbly patches and heat rose in waves that seemed to breathe.
~ Deborah Smith
A wide wrinkle like a comprehensive bracket sign was written upon his forehead, the point between his brows, and there were patches of brown on his dark-blond skin.
~ Saul Bellow
And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd.
~ William Shakespeare
The present is the object of vision, and what I see before me at any given second is a full field of colour patches scattered just so. The configuration will never be repeated.
~ Annie Dillard
When my father saw the jacket, he grinned wide and spent a minute looking over each and every patch.
~ Ernest Cline
A wandering minstrel I—A thing of shreds and patches,Of ballads, songs and snatches,And dreamy lullaby!
~ Sir William S. Gilbert
Some games work well as straight patches, but 'The Trail' wasn't one of those.
~ Peter Molyneux
patches, she is radiantly beautiful, the very picture of a healthy octopus and a diligent mother. She fluffs the
~ Sy Montgomery
In every collection of 10^10^122 cosmic patches, we thus expect there to be, on average, one patch that looks just like ours. That is, in every region of space that's roughly 10^10^122 meters across, there should be a cosmic patch that replicates ours-one that contains you, the earth, the galaxy, and everything else that inhabits our cosmic horizon.
~ Brian Greene
In the swamp the alligators drifted like patches of bad-assed water.
~ Terry Pratchett
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
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
And I may return in faded armor Full of patches bent and aged. And I may face the heat of battle, To free the damned and free the slaves. And I may know both pain and rejection, The betrayal of my friends. But the glory that awaits me, Will make it worth it in the end—in the end.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Buttons and patches and the cold wind blowing, The days pass quickly when I am sewing.
~ Author Unknown
memories are the patches that make up the quilt of our emotions. A beautiful way to put it, but wrong. If that were true, then memories would blanket us, they would keep us warm. My memories were chilling me to the bone.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
An REI worker had encouraged me to buy a box of Spenco 2nd Skin—gel patches meant to treat burns that also happened to be great for blisters.
~ Cheryl Strayed
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
my way through these small patches of virtual real-estate—or do I somehow imagine that I am performing some more dynamic function? The
~ William Gibson