Quotes About Batten

#1. In times of crisis, different people react in different ways. Some might try to escape. Others might attempt to batten down the hatches and ride out the storm in a safe haven.

Cullen Bunn

#2. Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that he really made his mark, beginning with the day in 1938 that a magazine editor invited him to lunch and asked what his hobby was. "Imagination," replied Osborn.

Susan Cain

#3. A true writer cuts their heart open and lets it bleed all over the page...
~Cynthia Batten

Cynthia Batten

#4. No matter what - rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing - the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.

Mick Fleetwood

#5. I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

Gordon Ramsay

#6. ...and my books are like friends that I come back to at night." ~Cynthia Batten

Cynthia Batten

#7. Far, far easier to batten down the hatches and lock the world out than take a chance.

Sarah Mayberry

#8. Devyn opened the channel to let Sway and Vik know what was coming. "Batten down. It's going to be a rough landing." Sway buzzed him back. "Dev, are you trying to say we're about to crash?" "Yeah, we're crashing." Sway had one last surly comeback to that. "Asshole." Shaking

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Mount Batten jumped up from his chair and ran yelling across the living room. He broke through the yellow crime scene tape across the front door like a finish line and kept on running. Sharon

Tim Dorsey

#10. When his nomination comes before the United States Senate, Timothy Batten can count on my strong support ... He is the right person for the job.

Saxby Chambliss

#11. Timothy Batten is an individual of high integrity and has given many years of service to Georgia and to the United States, .. His common sense dedication to the rule of law, intellect and experience make him a solid candidate for the federal bench in North Georgia.

Saxby Chambliss

#12. press-ganged', 'taking the wind out of your sails', 'shot across the bows', 'loose cannon', 'shipshape', 'batten down the hatches' belong more obviously to the sea. Others such as 'close quarters', 'cut and run', 'fathoming' something, 'broad in the beam' and the 'cut of your jib' take a moment

Ben Wilson

#13. We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die:

James Joyce

#14. It is the responsibility of the sender to make sure the receiver understands the message.

Joseph Batten

#15. Why was it always up to her when I was her best friend and when I was just a stranger?

Juliana Romano

#16. Peering around her, I took note exactly where the hundred metre high cliff started. i didn't want to be taking an unexpected flying lesson today.

Kelly Batten

#17. You two would get on like a house on fire. Don't douse the flames before you've struck a match.

Kelly Batten

#18. The first task of a leader is to keep hope alive.

Joseph Batten

#19. Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire that urged adventurers of old to set forth in their sailing-ships for foreign lands.

Jean Batten

#20. Sometimes I found it hard to believe that the person in the mirror was me.

Kelly Batten

#21. Who was that?" Layetta asked.
"Nobody."
"You can't take a phone call from nobody. That means
there is no one on the other end of the phone, meaning no phone call. So. Who was it?" I asked.

Kelly Batten

#22. Our strengths are our tools, our personal reality. Our weaknesses are only what we are not.

Joseph Batten

#23. When life gives you-' be thankful life gave you anything at all, because it means you are ALIVE: so do something with that beautiful fact

Kelly Batten

#24. Good writing is more about graft and craft than inspiration and aspiration.

Johnny Rich

#25. People say talking about it makes it better. Sometimes talking about it makes it worse.

Kelly Batten

#26. Whatever you think again and again affects your feelings and is impressed upon subconscious mind and becomes a part of your personality.

Hina Hashmi

#27. You weasel, good-for-nothing, scumbag, swine,
sleazebag, scumbucket, scoundrel, son-of-a-bitch!"
In the midst of everything, we all looked at Rosina,
who smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry. I was reading the Dictionary the other day."
I stared at her with incomprehension.

Kelly Batten

#28. Written words can also sing.

Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

#29. She simply stared at me with such a loving expression on her face, I felt like I was her foal. Indah reached her head as far as she could around me, to press me to her. I melted. How could I live without this horse? I wrapped my arms around her neck and let my tears flow.

Kelly Batten

#30. I asked a girl once why she was vegetarian. I said, is it because you love animals? And she replied, no it's because I had plants. To that I said, don't ever let someone take you to see the Palace Gardens- you'd both end up in jail.

Kelly Batten

#31. There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Bruno Mars

#32. The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#33. My nerves came back in full force. I'd thrown myself in the deep end, and, feeling like I had no idea how to swim, I had to get back to shore somehow.
"I'm sorry," I whispered.

Kelly Batten

#34. Our value is the sum of our values.

Joseph Batten

#35. Failure inspires winners. Failure defeats losers.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#36. The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore.

Lady Frieda Harris

#37. India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.

Narendra Modi

#38. I gazed up at the stars as I waited. They twinkled down at me, like a huge handful of diamonds someone had coated in glue and thrown on the ceiling.

Kelly Batten

#39. Peter was struck by the scar's essential nature: it was not a disfigurement, it was a miracle. All the scars ever suffered by anyone in the whole of human history were not suffering but triumph: triumph against decay, triumph against death.

Michel Faber

#40. If you help enough people, you don't have to worry about money.

Dave Ramsey