Batterbee Cakes Quotes & Sayings

You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin. — Constance Zimmer

After my father died, I learned that when tragedy strikes, you can either open up or shut down. My mother opened up and was not herself for some time. I shut down, and it worked for me. I shut down again on the day of September the eleventh. — H M Naqvi

Why don't you focus on where you're going and less on where you came from? — Amy Harmon

You don't hear it on the radio. There's something about the voices in Sleater-Kinney that's a little too challenging to ever be on the inside. — Janet Weiss

Still in my coat and hat, I sank onto the stair to read the letter. (I never read without making sure I am in a secure position. I have been like this ever since the age of seven when, sitting on a high wall and reading The Water Babies, I was so seduced by the descriptions of underwater life that I unconsciously relaxed my muscles. Instead of being held buoyant by the water that so vividly surrounded me in my mind, I plummeted to the ground and knocked myself out. I can still feel the scar under my fringe now. Reading can be dangerous.) — Diane Setterfield

The first principle from which stems the moral of about all people at all time; it is summarized in this precept: Love thy neighbour as thyself, and: do as you would be done by. — African Spir

When I am playing, I am in ecstasy; that is what I live for. — Claudio Arrau

Evolutionary biologists tell us we have a "negativity bias" that makes our brains remember negative events more strongly than positive ones. So when we're feeling lost or discouraged, it can be very hard to conjure up memories and feelings of happiness and ease. — Sharon Salzberg

There are two kinds of directors in the theater. Those who think they are God and those who are certain of it. — Rhetta Hughes

Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people. — Ziggy Marley

What is the world coming to, when you can't even trust a rogue vicar and her demon lover? — Simon R. Green

Everything is dependent upon your state of mind. That is all there is, states of mind, ten thousand of them. Beyond all states of mind is nirvana. — Frederick Lenz