Aloysius Battista Quotes & Sayings

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Go live your dreams. It is your only daring adventure. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bend over the sink. I'm going to show you who owns what around here. — C.D. Reiss

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Before most people start boasting about their family tree, they usually do a good pruning job. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Initiative is to success what a lighted match is to a candle. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Knowledge is power, especially when it is hitched to a workhorse. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

She could remember the sensation of flying through the air, which seemed to last an eternity. She could remember feeling reckless, happy, and doomed, all at the same time. She could remember thinking, I am above gravity. — Gabrielle Zevin

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

yoga positions. She's got all the curtains and blinds in her living room lifted, which exposes her half-dressed body as it twists itself into sexual positions. Of course they're sexual positions. You chicks may call it 'yoga' but it's really nothing more than sex practice. When else would you need to be that flexible except in someone's bed? — Xavier Neal

Time was when the average person could pay as he goes. Nowadays he has to pay as he comes and goes. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

A happy marriage is the world's best bargain. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The fellow who says he'll meet you halfway usually thinks he's standing on the dividing line. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The willingness to trust others even when you know you may be taken advantage of is the cornerstone of becoming civilized. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

In writing scripts now, having made a film, I'm much more conscious of what it means to shoot and edit a movie, and that affects the writing. — Josh Radnor

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The shortest distance between two jokes makes a perfect speech. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Praise can be your most valuable asset as long as you don't aim it at yourself. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone. — Joyce Carol Oates

Tact is the ability to make a person see lightning without letting him feel the bolt. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

True love doesn't consist of holding hands, it consists of holding hearts. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

I'm going to be killed by two psychos. — Caelia Sky

One good thing about punctuality is that it's a sure way to help you enjoy a few minutes of privacy. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

I like to make the mundane fabulous whenever I can. — Rufus Wainwright

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Just being young and growing up in this business is hard. Just growing up in general is hard. — Justin Bieber

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see ... — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Can I count this is as a second or nat... as 2 but as 3 life!? — Deyth Banger

Nothing adds to a person's leisure time like doing things when they are supposed to be done. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

Patience is never more important than when you are at the edge of losing it. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day. — Orlando Aloysius Battista

But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't ... what had some depth to it, what didn't. — Dabney Coleman