Bittlesham Quotes & Sayings

What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failures? — Guillermo Del Toro

The introduction of a substantial Government transfer tax on all transactions might prove the most serviceable reform available,with a view to mitigating the predominance of speculation in the United States. — John Maynard Keynes

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. — John McGahern

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings. — Charles Bukowski

Refrain from allowing your mind to wander toward other people's goals or to focus away from your own. — Pat Croce

It's about women. It's about power and it's about women and you just hate those two words in the same sentence, don't you? — Joss Whedon

I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the end draft. There will be some tweaks along the way, but it's not like I'll go 20 pages and throw it out and start again. — Noah Hawley

If he weren't a stick his own self, I'd say he had a stick up his butt. — Tom Robbins

I do like fantasy films. — Teresa Palmer

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny. — Julie Walters

Luckily, I was blessed to go to Stanford and a school that was primarily focused on academics, so it was a blessing. — Richard Sherman

We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody. — William Weld

He seemed to be doing his best to marry into a family of pronounced loonies, and how the deuce he thought he was going to support even a mentally afflicted wife on nothing a year beat me. Old Bittlesham was bound to knock off his allowance if he did anything of the sort and, with a fellow like young Bingo, if you knocked off his allowance, you might just as well hit him on the head with an axe and make a clean job of it. — P.G. Wodehouse

So it is the policy of the United States to seek and support the growth of democratic movements and institutions in every nation and culture, with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our world. — George W. Bush