Battened Ceiling Quotes & Sayings

There is a natural link between the effective running of my businesses and the effective direction of philanthropic funds. I apply business principles to my philanthropic work so that maximum value is given to the causes I support. — Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. — Leon Edel

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song. — Christine McVie

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual. — Helen Fisher

I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines. — Fran Drescher

He even obsessively contemplates the fact that he obsessively contemplates. — William Shakespeare

Life is short, but wide. — Rebecca Wells

What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. — Chris Prentiss

We spent four days filming in a helicopter. I had never seen London from that viewpoint - you get a sense of how big it is and how easy it is to get lost. There was one day when we couldn't find Brick Lane: we spent 25 minutes looking and then realised it was directly below us. — Asif Kapadia

It was a lesson the world had already taught me and was teaching me still. You don't know what's possible until you actually see it. — Amanda Lindhout

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. — Bill Walsh

Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom. — Steve Maraboli

Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people. — Rob Portman

I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before. — P.J. Harvey

I would never lay down a pre-programmed set and perform to a pre-mixed CD; I would never cheat my fans like that. — Avicii