Bancone Covent Quotes & Sayings

In my 20s, I mostly ate burritos and nachos, with the occasional burger. — Neil Patrick Harris

We must all die. There's nothing terrible about death. But to live on after death, a soul, earthbound, a vampire
you don't wish any such fate for your beloved. — Guy Endore

You want a happy family?"
"I'd love a miserable one where everyone hated each other."
"Why?"
"So we could find redemption in each other's arms. — Peter Tieryas

From books, I winnowed the glue that held together my psyche as it struggled to stay whole. It was from stories and myths that I learned to dream, to imagine a different life, to realize potentials and probabilities other than those of the painful, poverty-mired existence I found myself in as a child. With a book I could hide in a corner, safe from the heavy hand and belt of my stepfather, and for a while not worry about where our next meal would come from, or where we would be sleeping that night, or when my mother would break and have to be sent yet again to the mental institution. Books, for me, we tiny life rafts that I clung to desperately. — J. Don Cook

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

War is a convenient fix for government problems if it happens somewhere else. To other people. — Sherwood Smith

We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list. — Andrew Goodman

Pop art is a way of liking things. — Andy Warhol

While practicing mindfulness, don't be dominated by the distinction between good and evil, thus creating a battle within oneself. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Bullying is a horrible thing. It sticks with you forever. It poisons you. But only if you let it. — Heather Brewer

She fell down fifty-five floors. It took 10.6 seconds for her to hit the ground. It took my father forty-eight hours to come back home from his business trip in Sweden. — Chelsea Ballinger

The young man named Peter took her hand and led her into the starship. The door closed behind them. A moment later, the starship disappeared. — Anonymous

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying. — Doris Lessing

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome. — Nhat Hanh

It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it. — Teddy Roosevelt