Titus Lentulus Batiatus Quotes & Sayings

I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends. — Dave Grohl

One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a character's life into chapters. It's intriguing, because you can't do this with real life. You can't just end a chapter, then skip the things you don't want to live through, only to open it up to a chapter that better suits your mood. Life can't be divided into chapters ... only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.
I need one of those chapter breaks. I just want to catch my breath, but I have no idea how. — Colleen Hoover

The trauma said, 'Don't write these poems.
Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. — Andrea Gibson

All our dreams are small and silly until they are big and obvious. — Vatsal Surti

For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

The reason they outperformed her was that they accepted each new "product" without trying to understand it. They got behind the new pitch wholeheartedly, even when it was risible and/or made no sense, and then, if a prospective customer had trouble understanding the "product," they didn't vocally agree that it sure was difficult to understand, didn't make a good-faith effort to explain the complicated reasoning behind it, but simply kept hammering on the written pitch. And clearly this was the path to success, and it was all a double disillusionment to Pip, who not only felt actively punished for using her brain but was presented every month with fresh evidence that Bay Area consumers on average responded better to a rote and semi-nonsensical pitch than to a well-meaning saleswoman trying to help them understand the offer. — Jonathan Franzen

Patience, Abigail. Patience."
Abigail snorted. "Patience, right. I am known for having a great handle on the Fruits of the Spirit."
"Interesting. I don't recall manipulation being a Biblical virtue. — Rachel Van Dyken

I know everybody's income and what everybody earns,
And I carefully compare it with the income-tax returns — W.S. Gilbert

In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile. — Hunter S. Thompson

The ideal of warriorship is that the warrior should be sad and tender, and because of that, the warrior can be very brave as well. — Chogyam Trungpa