William Battie Quotes

#1. Nelson once said that love of his country served him for a greatcoat.

Patrick O'Brian

#2. The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Jim Carrey

#3. There's a way of negotiating how you portray your private life publicly that I've never had the skill to do.

Gina McKee

#4. Within the United States, we have put great emphasis upon political freedoms. Because it has been our experience that these freedoms can lead to others.

Robert Kennedy

#5. It angers me that sick people have to wait for everything and everybody - doctors, nurses, callbacks, lab results, prescriptions, medications, technicians, treatment rooms. If illness is the embodiment of powerlessness, which, believe me, is true, then waiting is its temporal incarnation.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#6. Moreover, for decades we have been prone to far greater swings in the economic cycle than our continental counterparts. It has been boom and bust ... Under this Government, there is an entirely new framework for economic management in place

Tony Blair

#7. Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

Lena Dunham

#8. I love vegan choices, raw food choices, and I'll eat whatever I have to in order to get into whatever shape I need to get into for any one particular role.

Angela Bassett

#9. I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

Megan Hilty

#10. Style is when they're running you out of town and you make it look like you're leading the parade.

William Battie

#11. Back then I was still appalled that God would set down his barefoot boy and girl dollies into an Eden where, presumably, He had just turned loose elephantiasis and microes that eat the human cornea. Now I understand, God is not just rooting fo the dollies.

Barbara Kingsolver

#12. There were two ways of looking at it: imagining that it was far away and big, in the first place; in the second, that it was small and near. But at any rate, a stupid, hard, brown mountain. How she hated nature sometimes.

Clarice Lispector

#13. Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.

Fiston Mwanza Mujila

#14. Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.

Ice-T