"I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes"
- Patton Oswalt
About this Quote
This quote is a play on words. The phrase "I had an unique inside me" is usually made use of to describe someone that feels they have a tale to inform or something to express creatively. In this quote, comedian Patton Oswalt is utilizing that expression as a setup and afterwards overturning it with the punchline "however I paid 3 sailors to defeat it out of me with steel pipes." The ramification is that Oswalt is not actually referring to a literal novel inside him that required to be literally beaten out, yet rather he's speaking about a need to create a charming story that he really feels humiliated or embarrassed of. By claiming he paid sailors to defeat it out of him, Oswalt is making a joke concerning strongly repressing his own imaginative impulses due to the fact that he feels they're not masculine or hard sufficient.
This quote is written / told by Patton Oswalt somewhere between January 27, 1969 and today. He was a famous Comedian from USA.
The author also have 14 other quotes.
"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South"
"No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company"
"What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics"
"People who don't like me talk about it as though I'm trash because I have tattoos. I find that insane because it's 2008, not the 1950s. Tattoos aren't limited to sailors. It's a form of art I find beautiful. I love it"
"A young sailor boy came to see me today. It pleases me to have these lads seek me on their return from their first voyage, and tell me how much they have learned about navigation"
