Bodecker Coffee Quotes & Sayings

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

a solution that was fair to all. (I said it, but I didn't — Adele Faber

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was. — Kurt Vonnegut

Parents abandon their children. Children abandon their parents. Parents protect or forsake, but they always forsake. Children stay or go but they always go. And it's all unfair, especially the sound of the words, because language is pleasing and confusing, because ultimately we would like to sing or at least whistle a tune, to walk alongside the stage whistling a tune. We want to be actors waiting patiently for the cue to go onstage. But the audience left a long time ago. — Alejandro Zambra

What do you even want a double pendulum for?"
"It's a comforting metaphor," Draco answers. "I'd like to have one on my desk."
"You find chaos comforting?"
"I find the certainty of uncertainty comforting. Existence is meaningless, no one knows what's going on, and we are all eternally at the mercy of an uncaring universe. I just find it easier to embrace it than to hide behind our abstract concepts of order like they can really protect me. — Tessa Crowley

The factory is a dead end and so is compliance. More obedience will not make us better. That's why graceful is in such demand. — Seth Godin

Bugle"

Black beetles know where the most recent bones
bake in the heat, tendons and meat long gone,
bleached white, and if you give them cheap wine --
drizzle a few red drops on a flat stone--
they will lead you to a barren gulch
surrounded by sages and nettles, dirt
burnt to powdery sand and sharp thorns. Hunch
above the skeleton, bow your head, start reciting verses you learned as a child, there, under the sun with rocks and brush, bare
locust tree a telling reliquary
of dust to dust, all so brutally hot.
You must pull ribs from that rotting body,
words that matter: love me, love me not. — Tod Marshall

I'm not the person in person that I am on stage. — Carrie Underwood

I own all 7 seasons of 'The Golden Girls.' — Conrad Ricamora

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks. — Kevin Eubanks

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active. — Billy Joel

I always go home to Buffalo in the offseason. I really enjoy my home town. — Patrick Kane

And is that what you'd wish for him, to have an easy life?"
"Isn't that what every parent wishes for?"
"No," I said. I touched my own stomach. I put my small hand over his large one. "I hope our son grows to be a good man. — Ted Kosmatka