Batmobile Car Quotes & Sayings

In my long career in this historical fiction business, though, I've found that the most effective storytelling concept is this: Once upon a time it was now.
That has become my credo and my method as a longtime historical novelist.
It's quite simple, if you see as Janus sees:
Today is now.
Yesterday was now.
Tomorrow will be now.
Three hundred years ago, the eighteenth century was now.
You, as a historical novelist, can make any time now by taking your reader into that time. Once you grasp that, the rest is just hard work.
Stay with me, and you'll see how such work is done. — James Alexander Thom

You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile. — Daniel Clowes

Life can give everything to whoever tries to understand and is willing to receive new knowledge. — Pramoedya Ananta Toer

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us. — Dallas Willard

An act of a dictatorship is an act of a civil war - Freedom to the people. — Jim

Anna Petrovna: Do you know what, Kolya? Try and sing, laugh, get angry, as you once did ... You stay in, we'll laugh and drink fruit liqueur and we'll drive away your depression in a flash. I'll sing if you like. Or else let's go and sit in the dark in your study as we used to, and you'll tell me about your depression ... You have such suffering eyes. I'll look into them and cry, and we'll both feel better. — Anton Chekhov

Going forward, we are mindful of the challenges we face in the competitive retail landscape, but we have demonstrated that our concept of building compelling brands that focus on the customers' lifestyles can produce superior results. We will not waver from that concept. — Richard Hayne

Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true. — William Wrigley Jr.

You're my best friend," Kami said, looking up into Angela's stern face. "I could always trust you never to think I was crazy."

"Your faith is touching but totally misplaced," Angela said. "I believe you to be a permanent inhabitant of cloud-cuckoo-land, and this year you may be getting elected mayor." — Sarah Rees Brennan

The neurologist had dismissed her case after a single visit, handing out an easy nostrum by telling her father that if she continued to write poetry, she would be all right. — Flora Rheta Schreiber

Look at the 18th century. There was a lot more freedom going on. — Steve Coogan

When you have Enough, you have everything you need. There's nothing extra to weigh you down, distract, or distress you. Enough is a fearless place. A trusting place. An honest and self-observant place ... To let go of clutter, then, is not deprivation; it's lightening up and opening up space and time for something new and wonderful to happen. — Vicki Robin

Jenk shook his head as he headed for the rental car counter. He felt his shoulders tightening as he walked away, certain that Izzy wasn't quite ready to be silent or invisible yet. He was halfway there when Izzy shouted, "Jenkins! I wish I could quit yew!"
Of course. The obligatory Brokeback Mountain reference. Jenk flipped Zanella a double bird without bothering to look back. — Suzanne Brockmann

It is doubtful that congress would pass the Bill of Rights if it were introduced today. — Earl Warren

Lia: "You've changed your mind about wanting to marry me. You're afraid I'll burn down your home. Embarrass you in front of all the other city brutes."
Zane: "I'm afraid," he said gently, "that you will burn down my heart. — Shana Abe

If your ass falls off, put it in a bag and take it to the meeting. — Stephen King