Buona Via Menu Quotes & Sayings

Incidental, all of it, of course, but this was what this city bestowed that novels couldn't: not what you needed in order to live, but what made the living worth doing in the first place. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Why?' He kept asking in his sweetly belling voice, its tone as pure as marbles swirled around a crystal pail. Why him wun up the tree? Why him nest up theah? Why him gadder nuts? Why? Why? Why? And Billy answering every question to the best of his ability, as if anything less would disrespect the deep and maybe even divine force that drove his little nephew toward universal knowledge. — Ben Fountain

As long as I remain imperfect and refractory, neither obeying God by practising the commandments nor becoming perfect in spiritual knowledge, Christ from my point of view also appears imperfect and refractory because of me. For I diminish and cripple Him by not growing in spirit with Him, since I am 'the body of Christ and one of its members' (I Cor. 12:27). — Maximus The Confessor

Not content, but the road the artist takes, is the interesting part. — Anselm Kiefer

Sir Patrick Rackrent lived and died a monument of old Irish hospitality. — Maria Edgeworth

Don't put no constrictions on da people! Leave 'em the hell alone! — Jimmy Durante

The substitute for knowledge is money. — Gordon Bethune

Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my forever lazy. — Eden Sher

It wasn't cheating, but it was Science, which was almost as good. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Hatred does not stir the stone men half so much as hunger. — George R R Martin

Discovery of one's self, of one's specific individual powers and potential capacities, learning how to develop them and use them as a socialized human being that cares about the needs of other individuals - would have to become the primary task of a new humanist education. — Mihailo Markovic

Researchers have compared brain scans of those people who are making money to those high on cocaine and found that them to be almost identical. Money has a biological and psychological effect on us. — Kabir Sehgal