Callari Bakery Quotes & Sayings

He'd shut the door on the subject of loss, thrown all the bolts, and shoved a heavy table up against it for good measure. — Cecilia Grant

Presence is far more intricate and rewarding an art than productivity. — Maria Popova

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. — William Hazlitt

It embarrassed her, as a child, to think that her father had fallen in love, or, if men must love, then it should have been someone else, someone dark, mysterious and profoundly clever, not an ordinary person who was impatient for no reason and cross when one was late for lunch. — Daphne Du Maurier

No matter what circumstances, it's hard to be a parent and maintain a sense of self and identity in the world. — Anne Lamott

Some days I spent up to three hours in the arcade after school, dimly aware that we were the first people, ever, to be doing these things. We were feeling something they never had - a physical link into the world of the fictional - through the skeletal muscles of the arm to the joystick to the tiny person on the screen, a person in an imagined world. It was crude but real. We'd fashioned an outpost in the hostile, inaccessible world of the imagination, like dangling a bathysphere into the crushing dark of the deep ocean, a realm hitherto inaccessible to humankind. This is what games had become. Computers had their origin in military cryptography - in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression. We'd done that, taken that idea and turned it into a thing its creators never imagined, our own incandescent mythology. — Austin Grossman

Our essential role is to produce ever more sophisticated tools - to "fecundate" machines as bees fecundate plants - until technology has developed the capacity to reproduce itself on its own. At that point, we become dispensable. — Anonymous