Carneys Menu Quotes & Sayings

the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

It all must start with an inspired, spontaneous idea. — Raymond Loewy

A high jeopardy of extinction comes with territory. Islands are where species go to die. — David Quammen

Man is a wonder to himself; he can neither govern nor know himself. — Benjamin Whichcote

The God King's wrath, she thought drowsily, is decidedly less wrathful than reported. — Brandon Sanderson

Every few years, in the world of sport, someone ascends to the most rarefied of all levels - the one at which it becomes news not when they win, but when they lose. It must have been like that in the early Fifties, when a tubby Italian called Alberto Ascari was stitching together nine Grand Prix wins in a row, a record not even Fangio, Clark or Senna could match. Or when the great Real Madrid side of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskas won the first five European Cup finals, between 1956 and 1960. Or when Martina Navratilova dominated Wimbledon's Centre Court, winning nine ladies' singles titles in thirteen years. The current Australian cricket team is in just such a run at present, having just completed nine consecutive victories, putting them four wins away from establishing an all-time record. And then there is Tiger Woods. — Richard Williams