Battening Down Quotes & Sayings

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people. — Sylvia Plath

School is tough sometimes, but it's all about knowing who your real friends are. — Ariana Grande

I try to find little things that you can do to move the song along and things that serve the song. — Benmont Tench

Let the beauty of sunrise, keep your heart warm. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Silver chains come in all shapes and sizes. — Neil Gaiman

Smile. Be friendly. Ask "Can I help you?" in a tone that suggests you actually mean it, and not that you'd like to rip the head off whoever's interrupting you. (You smiling yet?) — Jill Shalvis

I enjoy the cleaning up - something about the getting of things in order for winter - making the garden secure - a battening down of hatches perhaps ... It just feels right. — David Hobson

I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle. — Dee Rees

Television in its present form ... [is] the opiate of the people of the United States. — Richard M. Nixon