1424 Bistro Quotes & Sayings

[M]y first published book had just appeared in stores. The last year of my life
the year of finishing it, editing it, and seeing it through its various page-proof passes
ranks among the most unnerving of my young life. It has not felt good, or freeing. It has felt nerve-shreddingly disquieting. Publication simply allows one that much more to worry about. This cannot be said to aspiring writers often or sternly enough. Whatever they carry within themselves they believe publication cures will not, I can all but guarantee, be cured. You just wind up with new diseases. — Tom Bissell

When I was at BMW and Aston Martin, I realized how difficult and how many resources it takes to create a car - let alone a car company. — Henrik Fisker

The truth was, Dorian had always been more interested in being known as good than in simply being good — Brent Weeks

A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about. — Sigmund Freud

If you're laughing, you're healing. — Gangaji

Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364. — Will Rogers

When you are pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen, brush the honey off your nose and spruce yourself up as best you can, so as to look Ready for Anything. — A.A. Milne

A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone. — Julien Gracq

No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty - to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries. — Jerome K. Jerome

Across the desolation lay a supreme indifference, the casualness of night and another day, and yet the secret intimacy of those hills, their silent consoling wonder, made death a thing of no great importance. You could die, but the desert would hide the secret of your death, it would remain after you, to cover your memory with ageless wind and heat and cold. — Fante J

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself. — Arthur Schopenhauer

The ear of the bridled horse is in the mouth. — Horace

The best managers out there at the moment are Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho but they are at other clubs - Real Madrid and Barcelona. — Gary Neville

Maybe it was the way of the South to welcome home wayward family members who had no claim to such a piece of history except for a willingness to adopt it as their own and a shared last name. — Karen White

Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts! — Tarang Sinha