William Battie famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.

  • Abstract art: a construction site for high fashion, for advertising, for furniture.

  • For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all. For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.

  • Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

  • Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

  • Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.

  • A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

  • A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.

  • It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.

  • Ah! my friend, for whomever is alone, without a god and without a master, the weight of time is terrible. One must then choose a master, God being out of style.

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