Battys Quotes & Sayings

I always work on the theory that the audience will believe you best if you believe yourself. — Charlton Heston

When families save, they can get through emergencies like a bad harvest or a medical emergency. But it's more than that. They can also plan for the future, gradually saving up for a small business or for their children's school tuition. — Jeff Raikes

I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together. — Alison McGhee

And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it. — Curtis Sittenfeld

Guess who's fifteen minutes early to pick up Pax? This guy. I'm kinda proud of myself. — Kim Holden

If gods are transcendent ideas, then the idea of a god IS a god. — Alan Moore

Don't put too much pressure on Jack Wilshere ... in years to come I think he will be an Arsenal great like Liam Brady — Paul Merson

Religion, richest favor of the skies. — William Cowper

I had some bad jobs when I was young. Writing is not one of them. If you're fortunate enough to reach my age, to still be writing, you have to be grateful, and I am. I've been lucky. For many years, all I've done is writing, and it's all I've ever wanted to do. — Richard Flanagan

Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets. — Eugene H. Peterson

There is a lot of basketball beyond our control, but a player should never let anyone try harder than he does — Dean Smith

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. — Geezer Butler

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly.
Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or ... or ... — Alex Flinn

An old warrior is never in haste to strike the blow. — Pietro Metastasio

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it. — Joan Armatrading