Batesville Quotes

#1. Some of my favorite poems are "confessional" poems written in the voices of aliens ("Southbound on the Freeway" by May Swenson" and "Report from the Surface" by Anthony McCann), sheep ("Snow Line" by John Berryman) or a yak ("The Only Yak in Batesville, Virginia" by Oni Buchanan).

Matthea Harvey

#2. Take control from the moment you step in her place. She'll be pleasantly surprised and impressed.

Auliq Ice

#3. A newspaper that is true to its purpose concerns itself not only with the way things are
but with the way they ought to be.

Joseph Pulitzer

#4. The light and the life of the world, a light which shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not; 3 Who so loved the world that he gave his own life, that as many as would believe might become the sons of God. Wherefore you are my son;

Joseph Smith Jr.

#5. We don't want to merely obey God: we need to catch His heart. It is then we will glimpse the wisdom behind His directives, and not just see them as laws.

John Bevere

#6. Sometimes I feel so- I don't know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going'
Like a little lost Sputnik?'
I guess so.

Haruki Murakami

#7. All rock musicians are deaf ... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

Marc Bolan

#8. In a story, you can turn to the front and begin again and everyone lives once more. That doesn't work in real life.

Ally Condie

#9. Because if the Masters of the World exist, they can only be underground: this is a truth that all sense but few dare utter. Perhaps

Umberto Eco

#10. I will no longer take anyone's word for my experience.

James A. Baldwin

#11. What I like most: Reading well-written sources that take me to another world for hours at a time - and being able to call that 'work!' Also, of course, finding a gem of information that is either exactly what I was looking for, or else fits perfectly into the story in some way.

Linda Sue Park

#12. Nothing really mattered that much, not the good things and not the bad ones. We were in the business of mutual amusement, and we were reasonably prosperous.

John Green

#13. The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

John Prendergast

#14. Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

Margaret Cho

#15. The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset