Battersby Howat Quotes & Sayings

I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra ten pounds, the dismissive boss, the conniving sister, the straying husband. I've always hovered above their stories, nodding in sympathy and thinking how foolish they are, these women, to let these things happen, how undisciplined. And now to be one of them! One of the women with the endless stories that make people nod sympathetically and think: Poor dumb bitch. I could hear the tale, how everyone would love — Gillian Flynn

Therefore, our fight must primarily be a political mass struggle with revolutionary goals. — Joe Slovo

Americans will feed anyone that's not close to them. — Will Rogers

Guilt's just your ego's way of tricking you into thinking that you're making moral progress. Don't fall for it, my dear. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me. — Cam Gigandet

You can't fool the American people - politician trying to fool the American people. — Dov Davidoff

It also felt like home, and she wasn't sure she liked it. — Ruth Ozeki

I love the process of creating a character; someone entirely different from myself, and depicting it, either on stage or screen. — Amanda Schull

I don't know when I died. It always seemed to me I died old, about ninety years old, and what years, and that my body bore it out, from head to foot. But this evening, alone in my icy bed, I have the feeling I'll be older than the day, the night, when the sky with all its lights fell upon me, the same I had so often gazed on since my first stumblings on the distant earth. For I'm too frightened this evening to listen to myself rot, waiting for the great red lapses of the heart, the tear sings at the caecal walls, and for the slow killings to finish in my skull, the assaults on unshakable pillars, the fornications with corpses. So I'll tell myself a story, I'll try and tell myself another story, to try and calm myself, and it's there I feel I'll be old, old, even older than the day I fell, calling for help, and it came. Or is it possible that in this story I have come back to life, after my death? No, it's not like me to come back to life, after my death. — Samuel Beckett

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail. — Julie Walters