1808 Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history. — Arnold Gehlen

I think doing different accents is part of the job of acting really. It's something else that I quite enjoy the challenge of, to be honest. — David Tennant

God finds himself by creating. — Rabindranath Tagore

We are looking to the FTC to see whether companies that break their promises and collect personal information in an unfair and deceptive manner will be held accountable. — Marc Rotenberg

If you are going to worry about it, I won't. — Donald G. Reinertsen

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct. — Arthur Schopenhauer

I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos. — Pete Seeger

Now they were satisfied to express their individuality through which Rogers they preferred at the Saturday matinee: Ginger or Roy or Buck. America may be the land of opportunity, but in New York it's the shot at conformity that pulls them through the door — Amor Towles

If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light. — Watchman Nee

The successful development of science requires a proper balance to be maintained between the method of building up from observations and the method of deducing by pure reasoning from speculative assumptions. — Paul A.M. Dirac

America's not really a melting pot. It's more like one of those divided metal plates with separate sections for starch, meat, and veggies. — Nicola Yoon

Someday," said the Boy-Who-Lived, "when the distant descendants of Homo sapiens are looking back over the history of the galaxy and wondering how it all went so wrong, they will conclude that the original mistake was when someone taught Hermione Granger how to read. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

A well-made Martini or Gibson, correctly chilled and nicely served, has been more often my true friend than any two-legged creature. — M.F.K. Fisher