Battersea Boxes Quotes

#1. This castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.

Joseph Conrad

#2. There's always that first step in skating, from dry ground to slick ice, when it just seems impossible. Impossible that two thin blades of metal will support you, impossible that because its molecules have begun to dance a little slower water will hold you up.

Carol Goodman

#3. Irony is always the best weapon against facism.

Scott Westerfeld

#4. There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.

John Dos Passos

#5. He drank some more wine, feeling he was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For a man should never go through a woman's handbag-even the most remote tribe would adhere to that ancestral rule.

Antoine Laurain

#6. A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. Life is unfair, princess. Bad things happen to good people. Lady Luck is a motherfucking bitch. But we keep our chins up. We don't give up. We don't surrender. And we come back swinging.

Elle Aycart

#8. But the fraud being once established, could not afterward be explained, for it is with a pious fraud as with a bad action, it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Thomas Paine

#9. There was something so comforting in the certainty that someone knew about your biggest flaws and was still willing to stick around.

R.K. Lilley

#10. The more you read, the more you will love to read.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. I say to all those leaders: Do not look the other way, do not hesitate ... It is within your power to prevent a genocide.

Nelson Mandela

#12. Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?

Queen Latifah

#13. If the mind fits, shrink it.

Brian Spellman

#14. If you follow the herd, you'll end up stepping in shit.

Wayne W. Dyer

#15. But worries are for people who can't pull grown men apart with their bare hands.

Eliza Crewe