Batsto Quotes

#1. Books are important. They help you sleep at night.

Laura Bush

#2. We can't take pleasure in a work of art, not in good conscience, without accepting the implicit intention of the artist to please us.

Michael Chabon

#3. Ma's still nodding. "You're the one who matters, though. Just you."
I shake my head till it's wobbling because there's no just me.

Emma Donoghue

#4. You think the whole thing was an act? Was a fake?" I shake my head ... "I daresay it was real in the moment," she says, measuring her words. "But men are different than women. Their emotions are capricious.

Gayle Forman

#5. If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Sri Chinmoy

#6. I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.

Macklemore

#7. When you stand on the banks
of Penn Swamp Pond in August,
those injuries can save your life
and keep you picking till the bush is bare.

Charles Rafferty

#8. One doesn't have to invoke dominance to explain why Genghis Khan inseminated so many women that his Y chromosome is common in Central Asia today; it's enough to observe that he killed the women's fathers and husbands.

Steven Pinker

#9. It must be nice to be so strong and to think it's because you're so good, that you live right and eat right, so you deserve your health and happiness. But there is such a thing as luck, and there's more bad luck than good in this world.

Laura Lippman

#10. Mary, fresh with feminist appropriations, has the potential to undergird women's reformations.

Sue Monk Kidd

#11. The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

Ralph Waldo Emerson