Batens Van Quotes & Sayings

Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood. — Nick Mancuso

IN All You Do, Teach PEACE...Then LIVE It! — Timothy Pina

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. — Euripides

You get so weak from eating pears that you fall down, and then they come and take you away on a stretcher. — Oliver Reed

I never want anything to be too predictable. — Mindy Grossman

I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for. — Christian Bale

What made me maddest was the media treatment of the BPP, which gave the impression that the Party was racist and violent. And it worked. The pigs would burst into a Panther office, shoot first, and ask questions later. The press always reported that the police had "uncovered" a large arsenal of weapons. Later, when the "arsenal" turned out to be a few legally registered rifles and shotguns, the press never printed a word. The same thing goes on today. — Assata Shakur

It is with the holiest fear that we should approach the terrible fact of the sufferings of Our Lord. Let no one think that these were less because He was more. The more delicate the nature, the more alive to all that is lovely and true, lawful and right, the more does it feel the antagonism of pain, the inroad of death upon life; the more dreadful is that breach of the harmony of things whose sound is torture. — George MacDonald

CHILD: "Why does carrot cake have the best icing?" MOTHER: "Because it needs the best icing." Quantum Nonlocality and the Death of Elvis Presley You may remember — B.J. Novak

I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without. — Peter Cook