Famous Bathurst Quotes & Sayings

Too much rouge is a sign of despair. — Arlene Dahl

Take stock of your fears now and see how many of them are senseless. If you are honest with yourself you will probably find most of them are groundless. — Dale Carnegie

The real test of business greatness is in giving opportunity to others. Many business men fail in this because they are thinking only of personal glory. — Charles M. Schwab

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem. — Jaime Gil De Biedma

Traditionally games never used professional writers to create their narrative, so there's definitely a residual feeling that hiring a proper writer is somewhat of a luxury, rather than a necessity. Like a feng shui consultant. — Rhianna Pratchett

Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through. — C.S. Lewis

What is behind you is forgotten. You can't remember danger and difficulty when it is behind you — Wanda Rutkiewicz

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! — Charles Stross

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels. — Tom Robbins

Yes it was we, are a few years back parted from our record company and took the album that we were making with them and released it independently in the United States had a number one Independent debut in the United States. — Isaac Hanson

In fashion, only sexy won't go out of fashion. — Donatella Versace

Are you unmarried? Do not bewail yourself, as if your life must be incomplete. Yours is not a higher state, as celibacy has falsely taught, but it is neither a failure nor a shame. Cease to measure yourself by human standards. Find rest in being just what your heavenly Father wills you to be. It may be that you have been kept free from the limited circle of a home, in order to pour your love on those who have no one else to love them. — F.B. Meyer

Jane!" cried he softly, moving closer. "All these long months that we have been apart, even believing it to be impossible, it is of you alone that I have thought and planned. You are my heart ; you pierce my soul. — Syrie James

Writing a novel is a bit like making a sword. First, you take all the raw material and melt it down in a crucible, then you take it to the anvil and hammer out as many of the impurities as possible before folding and turning the whole thing over on itself and hammering it out again. The more often you can fold it over and incorporate another layer the stronger it will be. Finally, put an edge on it, give it a handle to show to the world, and the job's done. The result should be something flexible and elegant; perfectly balanced, of suitable length and, above all with a point to it. — Robert Stephen Parry