Taufik Batisah Quotes & Sayings

The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery: that it has for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for. — Flannery O'Connor

I had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth — Ernest Shackleton

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive. — John Marsden

So what you gonna do?"

"Push a stick into the beehive and rustle up some bees. The Larousses are hosting a party today. I think we should avail ourselves of their hospitality."

"We got an invite?"

"Has not having one ever stopped us before?"

"No, but sometimes I just like to be invited to shit, you know what I'm sayin', instead of havin' to bust in, get threatened, irritate the nice white folks, put the fear of the black man on them."

He paused, seemed to think for a while about what he had just said, then brightened.

"Sounds good, doesn't it?" I said.

"Real good," he agreed. — John Connolly

I don't photograph life as it is, but life as I would like it to be, — Robert Doisneau

Tweedle dee and tweedle dum — Mark Twain

How stupid these people were, coming into my office unarmed. — Don DeLillo

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience. — Mark Twain

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized. — Thomas Hardy

Did I miss?" you asked.
"You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon."
"I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground. — A.A. Milne

Plot springs from character ... I've always sort of believed that these people inside me- these characters- know who they are and what they're about and what happens, and they need me to help get it down on paper because they don't type. — Anne Lamott

Nothing that has happened has made me feel gloomy or remain depressed. I love my life. — Luciano Pavarotti

I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese. — Ice Cube

Our government has no integrity! — Jack Bauer

She remembers these as happy times - tomboy days, when she still glittered like quartz in her father's eye. Until puberty came along, as puberty will, and shattered the cosy sense of conspiracy. — Alison Fell