Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
Quotes to Explore
-
I write in a small office at home.
-
When I was in high school,we were, like, 4,000 or 5,000 students, and 50 girls - and I didn't have a date for my prom. My father paid my cousin to take me.
-
There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
-
I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
-
Education is so important.
-
For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
-
I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
-
Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.
-
I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
-
Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
-
God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
-
I'm a notorious late-night texter. I seem to use a lot of lip, heart, and tongue emoji.
-
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
-
One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
-
I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
-
Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.
-
I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
-
I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
-
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
-
Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
-
I think it's good for anybody to learn languages. Americans are particularly limited in that way. Europeans less so... We're beginning to have Spanish move in on English in the states because of all the people coming from Hispanic countries... and we're beginning to learn some Spanish. And I think that's a good thing... Only having one language is very limiting... You get to think that's the way the human race is made; there's only one language worth speaking... Well, this isn't good for English.
-
Nine times out of 10, I'm playing Friday.
-
I have supported affirmative action, I do support affirmative action and I will support affirmative action.
-
There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice.
