Benedito Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

I'm interested in how the confessional is so abrasively critiqued today. I'm not really comfortable with simply confessing but I do think "confessing" is a major part of reckoning. — Kiese Laymon

Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language. — Meister Eckhart

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. — Philip Sidney

But you make allowances for women; we all talk nonsense. Good — Wilkie Collins

But if you think there's a man anywhere who can make me do anything I don't want to do, you haven't been paying attention. — Rachel Bach

I am a stranger. I come in peace. Take me to your leader and there will be a massive reward for you in eternity. — John Glenn

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity. — Robert Harris

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Maple-trees are the cows of trees (spring-milked). — Henry Ward Beecher

I think you've got to have a depth, a deeper depth to take stand-up into acting, but I think it really helps you as a stand-up to home into different characters and stuff easily. — Chris Tucker

The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry. — John Perry Barlow

If you try to write posthumously, however, fashion doesn't apply. You step off the catwalk, ignoring this season's trends and resigning yourself to being unfashionable and possibly unnoticed, at least for a while. As Kurt Woolf, Kafka's first publisher in Germany, wrote to him after Kafka's book tanked, "You and we know that it is generally just the best and most valuable things that do not find their echo immediately." Fashion is the attempt to evade that principle: to be the echo of someone else's success and, therefore, to create nothing that might create an echo of its own. — Jeffrey Eugenides