Adornetto Menu Quotes & Sayings

As if the imminent could not wait to become the past, or the present lunged at the future, eager for what would be. — Anthony Doerr

I'm just rich. I own businesses and I love it. — Julie Newmar

It struck me that perhaps a lot of the people you see walking about are dead. We say that a man's dead when his heart stops and not before. It seems a bit arbitrary. After all, parts of your body don't stop working -hair goes on growing for years, for instance. Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea. Old Porteous is like that. Wonderfully learned, wonderfully good taste - but he's not capable of change. Just says the same things and thinks the same thoughts over and over again. There are a lot of people like that. Dead minds, stopped inside. Just keep moving backwards and forwards on the same little track, getting fainter all the time, like ghosts. — George Orwell

Am I in the wrong place here, or in the wrong life? Did I not recognize, as I sat in a train that raced past a station and did not stop, that I was on the wrong train, and did I not learn from the conductor that the train would not stop at the next station, either, a hundred kilometers away, and did he not also admit to me, whispering with his hand shielding his mouth, that the train would not stop again at all? — Werner Herzog

There's nothing worse than being an aging young person. — Richard Pryor

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

The pessimist's nostalgia, deteriorism goes far beyond simply whining that things used to be better and takes the bold stance that the world is actively and energetically going to hell in a handbasket. also — Ammon Shea

Live long, fight hard, love harder... — Julia Mills

I'm a lion in a strange land. — Criss Jami

The ideal-worker standard and norm of work devotion push mothers to the margins of economic life. And a society that marginalizes its mothers impoverishes its children. That is why the paradigmatic poor family in the United States is a single mother and her child. — Joan C. Williams

Some people feel 'transformed' from the first day they begin running; others feel that it's just plain hard work. Most of us realize it is both. I know how great running can feel, but I also know it can feel not so great, even downright awful! It can be fun, but it takes work to have that fun. — Grete Waitz

- So you still want me as a match?
- I would take you any way you came, just as long as you were you — Mary Beth Daniels

I am an artist, I trade in uncertainty and superstition and cant. I invent dark visions of impossible situations that can never be resolved. — Ralph Steadman

But if you don't have that memory of being loved, you are condemned to search the world for something to fill you up. But no matter how much money you make or how famous you become, you will still feel empty. What you are really searching for is unconditional love, unqualified acceptance. And that was the one thing that was denied to you at birth. — Michael Jackson

Self Realization is the first encounter with reality. — Nirmala Srivastava