Colin Bateman Quotes

#1. A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Ouida

#2. When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

Idries Shah

#3. God makes everyone to carry out different tasks.

Karen Kingsbury

#4. I came to Playboy not expecting to stay. But after five years, I found myself really enjoying the business world, and I realized I had some skill.

Christie Hefner

#5. Not just my body. It's more than that. Some parts spark. Others melt. A flux of chemistry and catastrophe, the same compulsive need that keeps bringing us back together.

Leisa Rayven

#6. I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.

Colin Bateman

#7. Bookselling is like prostitution, you sell your wares, you close your eyes, and you never fall in love with the clients. You also keep your fingers crossed that they won't ask for anything perverted.

Colin Bateman

#8. You can think of the difference between tactical and strategic oversight as the difference between doing things right and doing the right things. Both are required.

Bruce Schneier

#9. Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.

Colin Bateman

#10. He was the type of man women said they hated, they absolutely hated, they absolutely and categorically hated, and then they went to bed with him. I was the type of man women said they hated, and then they went home.

Colin Bateman

#11. Canlit might not exert the fascination of - say - a venereal wart.

Margaret Atwood

#12. When a girl trudged through the rain at midnight to knock at the Devil's door, the Devil should at least have the depravity - if not the decency - to answer.

Tessa Dare

#13. Serial Killer Week got off to an inauspicious start when the opening wine and bean evening was invaded by a former prisoner who misinterpreted the poster, but he was at least able to give us the professional's view of the genre.

Colin Bateman

#14. Once upon a time, my world revolved around you.

Katie McGarry

#15. I'd never realized how changeless this changeable island was until it turned into something different than I'd ever known.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. If you dwell in the darkness, you can see in the dark and look into the light.
But in choosing the darkness, you know you are destined to walk alone.

Colin Bateman

#17. But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

Wes Bentley

#18. We've all been put to sleep by somebody who's told us all these wonderful facts that didn't matter because information without emotion is not retained.

Tony Robbins