Baylis Quotes & Sayings

Every day you awaken, the day before you is a mystery, that is the mystery of life -Maggie Bayliss — Maggie Baylis

Today, music is visual. — Archie Shepp

Jimmy Lee Baylis was a wise man, and knew better than to talk back to the man who signed his paycheck. — Carl Hiaasen

It's not the troubles we run into, it's what we do about them which determines their net effect upon our lives ... by the very act of trying, our spirit is making progress. — Nick Baylis

Happiness worth having is the warm glow that comes from investing ourselves in the world around us, come what may. It cannot be passively consumed or gulped down like a sugary drink. Happiness must be created by own ingenuity. — Nick Baylis

What goes up must come down, unless a dragon eats it. — Brian Rathbone

The key to success is to risk thinking unconventional thoughts. Convention is the enemy of progress. — Trevor Baylis

The notion that inventors are anorak-wearing crackpots with glasses held together with Sellotape is beguiling but wrong. — Trevor Baylis

Invention isn't some impenetrable brand of magic; anyone can have a go. — Trevor Baylis

I was on automatic pilot; ideas for gadgets kept coming, fed by a force of energy flowing through me and around me. — Trevor Baylis

It is the ability to focus our attention on self-motivating thoughts, rather than being mesmerised by negatives, which rests at the very heart of a healthy approach to life. — Nick Baylis

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz. — Trevor Baylis

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. — John Bunyan

The sort of resilient personality who can bounce back quickly after a major setback, does so largely because they quickly generate positive emotions which serve as a physical and psychological antidote to bad news. — Nick Baylis

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand. — Alexis De Tocqueville

All inventors, they say, are a little mad. I reckon that only completely sane people are willing to admit they are slightly crazy. — Trevor Baylis

We all want to be called servants until someone treats us like one. — Albert Baylis

Ideas for gadgets for the disabled were coming into my head so fast they seemed to be arriving from somewhere outside of me, beamed down by an unremitting force. I had little control over them, or their flow. I would wake up in the middle of the night. A blinding flash of an idea would rouse me from my bed and I'd rush down to my workshop to have a go at it before the inspiration dimmed. — Trevor Baylis

As long as you've got slightly more perception than the average wrapped loaf, you could invent something, — Trevor Baylis

The facts that make the world real
these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it. — Ingeborg Bachmann

The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for. — Tori Amos

Once I was decapited
a black out in an avalanche
I went from human to animal
please turn me back — Pleasefindthis

Do what gives you a buzz. — Trevor Baylis

I'd work eighteen-hour stretches and fall asleep in my clothes. Then I'd wake up in the middle of the night, brew a pot of tea, and start work again. I was tired, but work had become pure enjoyment. — Trevor Baylis

But there is only one person I blame for getting shafted, and that's myself. I went into the deal which I thought would secure the future of Orange Aids with culpable impetuosity. I had been used to doing business on a handshake and my work of honour, and I made the error of actually believing what the men in the pin-striped suits told me. — Trevor Baylis

But having had your bright, fresh, original idea, the really hard part is turning it into a successful product. That's what takes all the sweat. — Trevor Baylis

No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us... — Joseph Conrad

It's not easy that everything you do, everybody has to come in and critique it and give their opinion. Sometimes it does help me and sometimes it hurts me as a person. That's life. I have feelings. — Mariah Carey

I am against any reconciliation with Israel. — Hassan Nasrallah

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I'm kind of grateful I've got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get. — Donny Osmond

Visionaries and dreamers have always been dusted with a little oddity. — Trevor Baylis

A good idea turns every cog in your mind, making you scared of bed in case the whole machine grinds to a halt. — Trevor Baylis

This plan looks like foolishness to earthbound philosophers. How can man comprehend a plan so based on love and servitude that his own deliverance and restoration is achieved by the death of the very "Lord of glory" (2:8)? — Albert H. Baylis

Successful people do whatever it takes to get the job done, whether or not they feel like it. — Jeff Olson

It's not our past which most determines the possibilities open to us, it's what we choose here and now to make happen in our present and future. — Nick Baylis

Ethan: "You think I'm a hero?"
Beth: "Yes."
Ethan: "But lousy husband material?" Like that really mattered to him.
Beth: "Don't sweat it. So was Superman. — Lucy Monroe