Batavian Lettuce Quotes

#1. You've climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.

Eleanor Brownn

#2. If you place [your bet] with God, you lose nothing, even if it turns out that God does not exist. But if you place it against God, and you are wrong and God does exist, you lose everything.

Peter Kreeft

#3. Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. They all led to the story inside the story.

Alice Hoffman

#4. History was about to be made. Or, if not actually made, then torn apart.

Trevor Baxendale

#5. Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death.

Isabel Allende

#6. My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

Kevin O'Leary

#7. Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

Terry Eagleton

#8. The 'boy next door' parts I get offered, I don't find interesting.

Douglas Booth

#9. But when women are asked when they're going to have children, there is, in actually, another darker, more pertinent question lying underneath it.

Caitlin Moran

#10. Creative people are more prone to depression.

Adam Ant

#11. The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
And he that stands will die for nought, and home there's no returning.
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair.

A.E. Housman

#12. I've never lost to Pete Carroll and I'm not gonna start now.

Charlie Weis

#13. I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

Al Jarreau

#14. Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

Jerry Seinfeld

#15. It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.

Rebecca Solnit