Alfresco Pizza Quotes & Sayings

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure. — Robert Ryman

To desire money is much nobler than to desire success. Desiring money may mean desiring to return to your country, or marry the woman you love, or ransom your father from brigands. But desiring success must mean that you take an abstract pleasure in the unbrotherly act of distancing and disgracing other men. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady. — B.K.S. Iyengar

After I graduated from school, I enrolled in the military college, a cadet school. This is the first stage of military training; it instills discipline and various qualities required for military life. — Roman Romanenko

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. — Edward Abbey

Being a journalist influenced me as a novelist. I mean, a lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible. — Kurt Vonnegut

Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends. — Hannibal

The Western planners are definitely trying to fragment the entire Middle East. They already have done, on several historical occasions. — Andre Vltchek

Without writers fooling themselves about what their books might accomplish there would be no books at all. — Mark Vonnegut

It happened again this week. Hundreds of people had to be evacuated from O'Hare Airport in Chicago. Seems every time somebody went through with a weapon, the metal detectors accidentally went off. — Jay Leno

We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices. — Hill Harper

Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of the universe. It remains open to evidence and persuasion; lacking faith, it nevertheless does not deride faith. Atheism, on the other hand, is as unyielding and dogmatic about religious belief as true believers are about heathens. It tries to use reason to demolish a structure that is not built upon reason. — Sydney J. Harris

The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. — Annie Jacobsen

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front. — Tom Udall

It's okay. Let your ego push you to be the initiator. But tell your ego that the best way to get something shipped is to let other people take the credit. The real win for you (and your ego) is seeing something get shipped, not in getting the credit when it does. — Seth Godin