Backwaters Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian. — Robert Aris Willmott

Women now were told not to settle for second best, told that they deserved better, but at a time, it seemed, when there was so much less to go around. — Lorrie Moore

If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love. — Thich Nhat Hanh

The fierce overhead strip lighting buzzed like the memory of a head injury. — Christopher Fowler

I don't really know what's wrong with Jay Leno. I don't have the training to make a professional diagnosis. — Andy Kindler

You ask for your audience's investment in your music; you're in a relationship with them. And their relationship with the E Street Band is separate from whatever else I might do. I like the idea of us being something that people rely on. — Bruce Springsteen

Turn to philosophy, therefore, with all your soul, sit at her feet, cherish her; a great distance will then begin to separate you from other men. You will be far ahead of all mortals, and even the gods will not be far ahead of you. Do you ask what will be the difference between yourself and the gods? They will live longer. But, by my faith, it is the sign of a great artist to have confined a full likeness to the limits of a miniature. The wise man's life spreads out to him over as large a surface as does all eternity to a god. There is one point in which the sage has an advantage over the god; for a god is freed from terrors by the bounty of nature, the wise man by his own bounty. — Seneca.

Each of us deserves a life where we get paid to fulfill our purpose, in an organization that consciously chooses to do good. — Dan Pontefract

It was nearly impossible to keep anything a secret, especially from her
sisters, the youngest of whom - Hyacinth - could probably have won the war against Napoleon in half
the time if His Majesty had only thought to draft her into the espionage service. — Julia Quinn

God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him. — Charles Stanley

The greatest part of the job was ... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work. — Jason Alexander