Batalia Quotes & Sayings

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa. — Kevin Drum

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me. — Johnny Ramone

Yes, there was racism, but there was also classism. You're a high-powered corporate attorney. You've spent most of your life reviewing contracts, brokering deals, talking on the phone. That's what you're good at, that's what made you rich and what allowed you to hire a plumber to fix your toilet, which allowed you to keep talking on the phone. The more work you do, the more money you make, the more peons you hire to free you up to make more money. That's the way the world works. But one day it doesn't. No one needs a contract reviewed or a deal brokered. What it does need is toilets fixed. And suddenly that peon is your teacher, maybe even your boss. For some, this was scarier than the living dead. — Max Brooks

The pressure on language to deteriorate does not come merely from below, from the "democratic" lev-elers. It comes also from above, from the fancy jar-gonmongers, idle game players, fashionable coteries for second-rate intellectuals. — John Simon

Even if you've had a negative effect on others in the past, you can turn that around and make your impact a positive one. — John C. Maxwell

Super blessed & excited to be part of the Nickelodeon family! It's amazing to be on a network I grew up watching! — Megan Lee

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood. — M. Russell Ballard

Adultery often happens, I am sure, because you are on a sinking ship, and you need to leap but can't leap. You are too spineless, maybe, to leap.The water is too dark and choppy and the sea is too large. Saving your own life, even, isn't enough reason to jump- no, you need the hands at your back, pushing, the hands of something as unavoidable and inevitable and imperative as love.It's got to be something that big, you know, to get you to jump. — Deb Caletti

Howard Hughes was in serious trouble. — Donald L. Barlett

I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song. — Idina Menzel

My first two novels were set in the past, and that freed me up in a lot of ways; it allowed me to find my way into my story and my characters through research. — Jennifer Gilmore

The helper [Eve, Genesis 2:18] is not a helper to til the soil or name the animals. The helper is the helper in the terms of the man's very identity. Man does not identify with the other living beings in an essential way. This non-identification reveals that his search goes farther than consciousness, self-awareness, self-knowledge or self-determination. The body reveals meaning and identity and includes the search outside himself in openness to another in relation. (p. 91) — J. Brian Bransfield

I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal. — Charles R. Morris

Writing for the theater is a whole different can of fish. The music now has the responsibility of so many things. The plot could be giving you different views of the character; the emotional highlights of a moment. — Frank Wildhorn