Battersea Dogs Home Quotes

#1. My bedroom was filled with reading material: books salvaged from dustbins, books borrowed from friends, books with missing pages, books found in the street, abandoned, unreadable, torn, scribbled on, unloved, unwanted and dismissed. My bedroom was the Battersea Dogs' Home of books.

Christopher Fowler

#2. Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

Trevanian

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R.J. Palacio

#4. Sometimes I'm at home and I remember I'm supposed to do 100 push-ups and I don't.

Asafa Powell

#5. Persons with anything life sustaining to sell, fellow citizens as well as foreigners, were refusing to exchange their goods for money. They were suddenly saying to people with nothing but paper representations of wealth, "Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think paper was so valuable?" ***

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

Kate Winslet

#7. The battle for women's rights has largely been won. The days when they were demanded and discussed in strident tones should be gone forever. I hate those strident tones we hear from some Women's Libbers.

Margaret Thatcher

#8. We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.

Suzanne Johnson

#9. My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.

Mario Puzo

#10. When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#11. I tend to work well within a deadline. If I know I have to get something in three weeks, I tend to A, enjoy myself a little bit more, and B, really work well.

Jenny Lewis

#12. Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#13. I was just getting out of a shootaround in Milwaukee when I found out. I took out my insoles (from my shoes) and I was out of there.

Dan McCarney

#14. Spit Fyre practised a recently acquired skill - he winked.

Angie Sage

#15. The Latino community anchored me, but I didn't want it to isolate me from the full extent of what Princeton had to offer, including engagement with the larger community. Page 148

Sonia Sotomayor

#16. It would be interesting to remember the dreams I had here, at the Del Mar, more than ten years ago. I probably dreamed about girls and punishment, the way all boys that age do.

Roberto Bolano