Cerris Pizzeria Quotes & Sayings

But why bother trying to turn a monkey into a goat? — Lisa See

The red velvet material was hard to work with, it pulled, and the style my mother had chosen was not easy either. She was not really a good sewer. She liked to make things; that is different. Whenever she could she tried to skip basting and pressing and she took no pride in the fine points of tailoring, the finishing of buttonholes and the overcasting of seams as, for instance, my aunt and my grandmother did. — Alice Munro

The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957. — Roger McGuinn

Never express anger with a friend or a subordinate in public," Vedris always said. "They might forgive a private expression of anger or a deserved scolding, but they never forget a public humiliation. It is the surest way to destroy a friendship and to create enemies. — Tamora Pierce

We have not been scuffling in this waste-howling wildness for the right to be stupid. — Toni Cade Bambara

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer? — Jennifer Weiner

I believe everybody has a mission and my mission was to bring children in - that wanted to be in a body that was nutritionally balanced, meditative, emotionally stable, because I believe it has a lot to do with how the child develops. — James, Son Of Zebedee

You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it! — Pope Francis

BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said, "Look at this," and I thought the book was outstanding. I was like, "Can I do this?" — Glen Morgan

The morning light shimmered through the trees and gave the lake an otherworldly hue. Everything in summer Michigan seemed to have a soft shimmer to it, as though God had hung gauze over the sky and softly scattered glitter on all His creations. — Viola Shipman

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right. — V.S. Naipaul

I am very interested in the enlightenment of women. Very few teachers of advanced self discovery work with women, and if they do it's usually in a very second handed way. They treat women as second class citizens. — Frederick Lenz

Power is the ability to translate, that is, to shift from one level of attention to another. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes we're more terrified of the good things in life than we are of the bad. We feel we don't deserve them, or that they aren't real, that they'll disappear quickly and easily and we'll be left in the ruins. — Kandi Steiner