Jim Pattison Quotes

“It's quite normal to hear of a change and see it as a problem, but it's probably an opportunity, depending on how quickly you can adjust.”

“When I came out of high school, my objective in life was to get a job selling used cars, but after trying for two weeks, nobody would hire me.”

“No, forget love, the best we can hope to mould, given the poor Play-Doh of humankind, is a capacity for tolerance. This is achievable since tolerance is little more than indifference with a Dulux coat of manners. Surely we can manage that? Call me a dreamer but I can see a world where people of all races, creeds and colour will live together in harmony because they don't give a toss about each other.”

“I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.”

“It wasn't normal, it was quite far from normal, but they were hers and she loved everything about them.”

“It had been a wake-up call and now all she wanted was to keep her dad in sight and make sure he didn't eat too many Mars Bars or drink too much beer.”

“Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.”

“The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddhahood." Dakpo to Shan”

“Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Lhadrung.”

“Cancer gets a bad press but, fair do's, it's a truly egalitarian illness, unlike those stuck-up bastards ME and motor neurone.”