quotes about Banter

“Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.”

“There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.”

Source : Phyllis Bentley (1954). “The House of Moreys”

“It is possible to state as a general principle that the mesodermic phagocytes, which originally (as in the sponges of our days) acted as digestive cells, retained their role to absorb the dead or weakened parts of the organism as much as different foreign intruders.”

“It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.”

“I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.”

“After you have wept and grieved for your physical losses, cherish the functions and the life you have left.”

“My goal all along has just been to work and support myself. I've been really lucky to walk away from the 'Twilight' series unscathed. Somebody asked me recently what it's like to be a star. I thought that was the strangest question. If you saw my day-to-day life, the word 'star' just doesn't apply.”

“There is nothing positive about being fat. And there is nothing positive about loving yourself. We all need to conform to society's expectations of who we are, because if we don't, who will? Life is more enjoyable when you are thin and pretty. I was never fat a day in my life and I never will.”

“We no longer need to discuss whether or not it is safe – over a decade and a half with three trillion GM meals eaten there has never been a single substantiated case of harm. You are more likely to get hit by an asteroid than to get hurt by GM food.”

Source : "Curse of the Frankenfoods". "Background Briefing" with Ian Walker, www.abc.net.au. September 15, 2013.

“What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear.”