Castagnola Deli Quotes & Sayings

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting. — Anne Fadiman

Each person is worth the value put on them by the affection of others, and that is where popular wisdom has found that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. — Machado De Assis

When ministers in this government talk about investing in education and skills, about making the planning system work; about employment law reform and delivering transport and power generation and broadband communication infrastructure, we are talking about raising Britain's productivity. — Philip Hammond

Sin is nothing more than a most extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who were when we were created as a spirit that came forth from the heart of God the Father - as a spirit made in His sinless image. — Praying Medic

Restrictions and writing shouldn't mix. Let your mind be open. Let it be a creative canvas. — Lauren Hammond

Can anything be more idiotic than certain people who boast of their foresight? They keep themselves officiously preoccupied in order to improve their lives; they spend their lives in organizing their lives. They direct their purposes with an eye to a distant future. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life: it snatches away each day as it comes, and denies us the present by promising the future. The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today. You are arranging what lies in Fortune's control, and abandoning what lies in yours. What are you looking at? To what goal are you straining? — Seneca.

And he lay on the cold floor of the study watching the wind stirring the pages, mixing the written and unwritten, the end among them. — Louise Gluck

The idea of 'Yes on Broadway' has come up. It would reflect the history of Yes. — Chris Squire

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman

Every book was a door; every page a new place to hide. — Drew Magary

We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things. — Marisha Pessl