Battaglia Quotes & Sayings

You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior. — Nathaniel Branden

Time: a landing field! Death needs time like a junkie needs junk. — William S. Burroughs

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart. — Mallory Ortberg

Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you ... And it has black spots on his back, and a head like a coq, and half goes erect over the terra, and half on the terra like the other serpents. And it kills the bellula ... '
'The bellula?'
'Oc! Parvissimum animal, just a bit plus longue than the rat, and also called the musk-rat. And so the serpe and the botta. And when they bite it, the bellula runs to the fenicula or to the cicerbita and chews it, and comes back to the battaglia. And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.'
I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business. — Umberto Eco

I don't hero worship for the sake of hero worship. When I find people who are truly remarkable - and I think Joseph Needham is a classic example - I do value their counsel. — Simon Winchester

Nothing good ever climbed up the side of a boat. — Alonzo Bodden

The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love. — Mariama Ba

Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If we draw a line in the sand, our love ought to be more evident to the world than our doctrine. — Joe Battaglia

Courtesy is the foundation of all good manners. — William Riley Brooksher

I really think everything is fair game. — Sarah Silverman

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC. — Jim Carrey

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself. — Mark Batterson

If print was invented tomorrow, it would be the death of digital. — Vaughan Oliver

Sometimes when you try too hard," Aqamdax explained, "things get tangled, and the only way to untangle them is to let go. — Sue Harrison

Do you think that I want to live in a communal society with people like that Battaglia acquaintance of yours, sweeping streets and breaking up rocks or whatever it is people are always doing in those blighted countries? What I want is a good, strong monarchy with a tasteful and decent king who has some knowledge of theology and geometry and to cultivate a Rich Inner Life. — John Kennedy Toole

Mace had to be six foot three, had the prerequisite Nightingale Investigation Team killer bod; black hair, jade eyes and a jaw so square, it could be used in math class. — Kristen Ashley