Batsford Timber Quotes & Sayings

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China. — Hank Williams Jr.

As far as writing, I like watching bad movies. Nothing stops me in my tracks more than watching a great film like 'The Godfather' or 'Dog Day Afternoon' or 'The Graduate.' You watch one of those, and you never want to write again. Whereas with bad movies, it makes you think, If that counts, I certainly could write. — Jason Reitman

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words on pieces of paper in order to give birth to what does not exist, except in your head. Why on earth would anyone want to do such a thing? The only answer I have ever been able to come up with is: because you have to, because you have no choice. — Paul Auster

Thomas looked like he was about to talk some smack at the malk, but only for a second. Then he frowned and said, "It's odd. You sound like ... like a grade-school teacher."
"Perhaps it is because I am speaking to a child," Cat Sith said. "The comparison is apt."
Thomas blinked several times and then he looked at me. "Did the evil kitty just call me a child? — Jim Butcher

Flourishing is the heart of prospering - engagement, meeting challenges, self-expression, and personal growth. — Edmund S. Phelps

My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Do your work with honesty and integrity, and don't compromise God's moral standards. It may be difficult, but it's far better to do right than to do wrong. God is with you, and He will not abandon you. — Billy Graham

I was the man who never lied
Never lied until today
But I just couldn't break your heart
Like you did mine yesterday — Maroon 5

It seemed to be a requirement that the women who wore an "X" on their costumes would eventually take a dip in the crazy pool at least once. Power intoxicated these women and made them cruel, maniacal menaces who cast aside loyalties to friends and lovers. Even when possessed by an evil entity, the implication was that a suppressed part of the heroine's soul was reveling in the rush of deviltry. — Mike Madrid

My heart is filled with deep gratitude to the Almighty Lord. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Though fallen low God raised her up — Francine Rivers

Safe people will help you help your child. — Henry Cloud

Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is already inside their heads and consequently make policy less to fit the facts than to fit the notions and intentions formed out of the mental baggage that has accumulated in their minds since childhood. — Barbara Tuchman

We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better. — Ruud Gullit