Alborz Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

We are certainly not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions of our own devising; nor are we to recede from the analogy of Nature, which is wont to be simple and always consonant to itself. — Isaac Newton

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines. — Alan Lightman

Ledge

Birds that love
high trees
and winds

and riding
flailing branches
hate ledges
as gripless
and narrow,

so that a tail
is not just
no advantage
but ridiculous,
mashed vertical
against the wall.
You will have
seen the way
a bird who falls
on skimpy places

lifts into the air
again in seconds --
a gift denied
the rest of us
when our portion
isn't generous. — Kay Ryan

We live in a nation of pigs and murderers. — James Baldwin

Every act of seizure is an act of grace. — Jen Pollock Michel

A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin. — Howard Zinn

Get off, luv, I'm high as a bloody kite. No telling what I'll do. — Jeaniene Frost

Every good day starts off with a cappuccino, and there's no place better to enjoy some frothy caffeine than at the Bulgari Hotel. — Brad Goreski

What we have to do is put this in a coherent form for them at the end of the day, and on the big events, give them the kind of context that they deserve. — Tom Brokaw

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist. — Paul Cezanne

Genius is always more suggestive than expressive. — Abel Stevens