Batavia Quotes

#1. For instance, Visser, the Dutchman, had sold German machine guns to the Chinese, spied for the Japanese and served a term of imprisonment for killing a coolie in Batavia. He was not an easy man to handle.

Eric Ambler

#2. Wherever the TV glows, there sits someone who isn't reading.

John Irving

#3. If you spend too much time wondering what you're going to feel like in year five, you're not going to feel anything in year one.

Emilia Clarke

#4. Masturbation is the new polygamy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#5. Inasmuch as the domestic household is antecedent, as well as in idea as in fact, the family must necessarily have rights and duties which are prior than those of the Community and founded more immediately in nature.

Pope Leo XIII

#6. People wanted me to be like the Madonna, the white nun, you know, and that's not me. But I'm no villain.

Mary Beth Whitehead