Battledore Quotes

#1. Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.

Charles Dickens

#2. I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.'

Sarah Snook

#3. The great privilege of the Americans does not simply consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their being able to repair the faults they may commit.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#4. [On the ERA Equality March:] It's the funniest thing. I don't feel there's any discrimination. I know my husband feels that way.

Pat Nixon

#5. Adding travel time lost during the pit stop between photon absorption and re-emission, the total trip lasts about a million years. If a photon had a clear path from the Sun's center to its surface, its journey would instead last all of 2.3 seconds.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Alan Watts

#7. In the foolishness lies the danger.

Omar Torrijos

#8. There's a difference between the 'art' of writing and the 'craft' of writing. Art is subjective, its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, but craft is objective. There is a right way and a wrong way to craft.

Gerard De Marigny

#9. Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.

Kristin Cashore

#10. What I've realized, and had to become comfortable with, is that I'm just, I don't think, a star. I'm an actor.

Tim Daly

#11. I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.

Paul Schneider

#12. My parents never got along super well, but it had grown worse in the last year before he left. Eventually he moved to an apartment on the other side of town, where he stayed for almost five months while the divorce wound its way through the intestinal tract of the county courts. I

Dan Wells

#13. Gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

Lynda Barry

#14. Only those who have learnt the tongue of angels can tell how one's name will sound in the language of light.

Sjon

#15. She drew away
from her shadow,so lightening would pass between the two
like a stranger passes through his poem

Mahmoud Darwish