Bathurst Quotes

#1. The mind is a muscle.

Robert Wilson

#2. The pills I take are a paperweight. All they do is pin the fantasies down. But they're still there, and any strong wind that comes along, I can feel them rattling around, trying to slip free.

Joe Hill

#3. Flinging dog drool on innocent passersby?

Meg Cabot

#4. Why wait for the loss of hearing to appreciate sound? Turn off the white noise of your thoughts and start to listen.

Bella Bathurst

#5. Witches is being sold as an account of the Belvoir scandals, but in truth, Tracy Borman has written a thorough and beautifully researched social history of the early 1600s, taking in everything from folk medicine to James I's sex life.

Bella Bathurst

#6. Wine taken in moderation never does any harm.

Miguel De Cervantes

#7. You can tell a lot about people from the kind of books they steal.

Bella Bathurst

#8. Libraries' most powerful asset is the conversation they provide - between books and readers, between children and parents, between individuals and the collective world. Take them away and those voices turn inwards or vanish. Turns out that libraries have nothing at all to do with silence.

Bella Bathurst

#9. If there's friends around, I'll cook. Or if I have a girlfriend. But on my own I kind of fell out of the habit of it, and it's a shame really because I know it's good for me. It's something quite therapeutic.

Michael Fassbender

#10. After all, I wasn't even sure if the ancient causes belonged to me in the first place because being born into a belief tended to make me feel more like I belonged to it instead.

J.D. Brewer

#11. Writing is wonderful. But it's hard work, so don't romanticize too much. Make the blinking cursor do its job.

Joseph LoGuidice