Brienza Kitchen Quotes & Sayings

I was beginning to realize that what I wanted was the noise of people living near me, but not near enough to cause any inaudible noises to show up because I knew that those sorts of noises often shift into inaudible minor chords and I am unable to deal with that shift. — Catherine Lacey

I didn't generate my success by being a prognosticator. I developed my reputation building our businesses by building great businesses and making them more efficient. — Michael Lee-Chin

Why life is so dark sometimes we do not know, but we do know this: what happens is not as important as what we do with what happens. — Marvin J. Besteman

I've just looked for ideas and great characters that I relate to and that I think I can offer something to the audience, and I no longer look at them as experiments or genre exercises at all. — Ron Howard

If we spend the time we waste in sighing for the perfect golden fruit in fulfilling the conditions of its growth, happiness will come, must come. It is guaranteed in the very laws of the universe. If it involves some chastening and renunciation, well, the fruit will be all the sweeter for this touch of holiness. — Helen Keller

Just don't keep me in the dark about things.
Otherwise, why am I with you? — Ai Yazawa

If I run a time-limited test program, I'll never discover whether markets with additional employment truly exist. A solution in the low-wage sector cannot be a limited special program. — Angela Merkel

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man ... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. — Sigmund Freud

Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need? — Catherynne M Valente

To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted. — Maxine Greene

Learning to pause is the first step in the practice of Radical Acceptance. A pause is a suspension of activity, a time of temporary disengagement when we are no longer moving toward any goal ... The pause can occur in the midst of almost any activity and can last for an instant, for hours or for seasons of our life ... We may pause in the midst of meditation to let go of thoughts and reawaken our attention to the breath. We may pause by stepping out of daily life to go on a retreat or to spend time in nature or to take a sabbatical ... You might try it now: Stop reading and sit there, doing "no thing," and simply notice what you are experiencing. — Tara Brach

Say what you liked about the people of Ankh-Morpork they had always been staunchly independent, yielding to no man their right to rob, defraud, embezzle and murder on an equal basis. This seemed absolutely right, to Vimes's way of thinking. There was no difference at all between the richest man and the poorest beggar, apart from the fact that the former had lots of money, food, power, fine clothes, and good health. But at least he wasn't any better. Just richer, fatter, more powerful, better dressed and healthier. It had been like that for hundreds of years. — Terry Pratchett

I'm a big bath person. — Bethenny Frankel

Heh! Fuck yew," I said. — Kevin Hearne