Banta Quotes & Sayings

I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope. — Greg Mortenson

I loved to play, I was competitive, I wanted to win, that was all I knew. In the first few years tennis is a game. Later, it becomes a job, — Gabriela Sabatini

I believe the world has yet to see what God will do with the man who is perfectly surrendered. — D.L. Moody

Well, thought Winnie, crossing her arms on the windowsill, she was different. Things had happened to her that were hers alone, and had nothing to do with them. It was the first time. And no amount of telling about it could help them understand or share what she felt. It was satisfying and lonely, both at once. — Natalie Babbitt

It's often said that writers sometimes need to go around the block a few times to get where they're going. — Christopher Bram

ONE OF THE THINGS that happens when you get older is that you discover lots of new ways to hurt yourself. Recently, in France, I was hit square on the head by an automatic parking barrier, something I don't think I could have managed in my younger, more alert years. — Bill Bryson

Each person has unspeakable distress. When I remember the past, annoying, I cry; The reality of today is too cruel, too severe, and doesn't even offer me a dream; Imagining the future brings me yet another kind of tears — Aya Kito

A visitor to Santa: Which one is Mr Banta's flat? Santa: Please come with me. The visitor is taken to the third floor. The visitor rings the bell and there is no response. He repeatedly rings the doorbell and still no one answers. Visitor: I think he is not in. Santa: Yeah, he has gone out. He'll be back in the evening. — .Santa

The Japanese have a word - aware - which, in my understanding is, again, that full range - both the joy and the sorrow of our life. One does not exist without the other. And I really feel that. — Terry Tempest Williams

It's very important to not repeat yourself. After 'Delhi Belly,' I was offered 40 'Delhi Belly's and you can't do that! So 'Revolver Rani' is dark and gritty with action, 'Sooper Se Oopar' is a big commercial love story, 'Santa Banta' is a 'theth' Punjabi comedy, 'Golu Aur Pappu' is a kids' film and 'Amit Sahni Ki List' is an urban romcom. — Vir Das

No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain. — Yasmine Bleeth

I can't honestly account for the very personal response that I have to one story and not another, a sense of an orbit, the orbit of a world that draws me as my own life recedes. — Daniel Day-Lewis

The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway. — Tony Danza