Cotardos Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

We must take precautions against being prematurely honed sharp
since at the same time we are being prematurely honed thin. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When self-publishing started, it was mostly people who really couldn't write. And they just wanted to get their book out, and they couldn't get traditional deals. — Caroline Leavitt

That the stars are adamant
everyone understands
but I won't give up seeking joy on each blue wave
or peace below every gray stone. — Edith Sodergran

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Over our heads, two millimetres, maybe one millimetre from our temples, those long tempting lines of steel that bullets make when they're out to kill you were whistling through the hot summer air.
I'd never felt so useless as I did amid all those bullets in the sunlight. A vast and universal mockery. — Louis-Ferdinand Celine

All is as beautiful as we think it. — Robert Henri

I was a terrific liar as a child, and I believe my lies. So it's a natural step into acting. — Anthony Geary

I remember the first pangs of stress arriving at the end of school. Once I graduated I had to get a full-time job, worry about health insurance, saving money, paying rent - things I'd never thought about before. — Ezra Koenig

If you're not happy, then something is wrong. A person comes into the world as a happy being, yet over time, the happiness fades away and they find themselves in this bubble of anxiety and misery all the time. And it's a comfortable place to stay, so they end up hanging out in this bubble for years and years before it suddenly dawns on them that life is meant to be happy. And, it is. It's just that they're too busy getting caught up in worry and stress to notice that life is magnificent and beautiful. Being alive is good. Being alive should already make you happy. — Leigh Hershkovich

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. — Henry Mayhew

A terrible silence fell in the room. Bill Ireton looked suddenly sober as a trout. — Patricia Highsmith

I hate that," I said. "It's like there's no human beings in the chain of responsibility, just things-that-happen. It's the ultimate cop-out. The system did it. The company did it. The government did it. What about the person who pulls the trigger? — Cory Doctorow

The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait. — Paul David Tripp