Quillan Batley Quotes & Sayings

NOTE: For those who enjoy listening to music while they read, a soundtrack has been placed at the back of the book. So if - like the author - you believe that music and reading go together like peanut butter and chocolate, then you may want to skip to the back and start the music before you begin reading. Enjoy! — Mitty Walters

Joe once told me he felt a little sorry for women, who only got husbands. Husbands tried to help by giving answers, being logical, stubbornly applying force as though it were a glue gun. Or else they didn't try to help at all, for they were somewhere else entirely, out walking in the world by themselves. But wives, oh wives, when they weren't being bitter or melancholy or counting the beads on their abacus of disappointment, they could take care of you with delicate and effortless ease. — Meg Wolitzer

It's a strange thing. This is only thirty-five years ago - Roosevelt, Wallace. We have a new generation in business today. Successful. It's surprising how quickly they forget the assistance their fathers got from the Government. The Farm Bureau, which I helped organize in this state, didn't help us in '35. They take the same position today: we don't need the Government. I'm just as sure as I'm sitting here, we can't do it ourselves. Individuals have too many different interests. Who baled out the land banks when they were busted in the Thirties? It was the Federal — Studs Terkel

A ruler who needs religion to help him rule is a weakling. No weakling should rule.. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

Aboot the gold Syvertsen stole — Zane Grey

I don't want to think that the stories are finite; I want to feel that they can go on forever. — Steven Moffat

Rich people are just like us though they now eat their meals off square shaped plates. — Gary Gulman

I try to teach my kids to be open. — Antonio Banderas

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little. — Horace

I can turn to that day as though it were a page in a book. It's written so deeply upon my mind I can almost taste the ink. — Hannah Kent

I rolled in the memories, letting them scar my skin. I relived them, telling myself that I was lucky to have known him, to have been loved like that, to have loved like I did. — Karina Halle

If special honor is claimed for any, then heresy should have it as the truest servitor of human kind. — Charles Bradlaugh

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. — William Shakespeare

As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them. — Pablo Neruda

At the very basic level all people are creators. We are all creating at every moment. — Bryant McGill