Dinner With Trimalchio Quotes & Sayings

Welcome," he said, "and thanks for stopping by. Now, if you wouldn't mind, I'd like you to leave. — J.J. Maddox

Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends. — Edward Hirsch

A vigorous young mind not overbalanced by passion, finds a good in making acquaintance with life, and watches its own powers with interest. — George Eliot

Think as though the beauty of your life depends on your thoughts. Live as though your life is the portrait of your thoughts. — Debasish Mridha

Knowledge is a destination. Truth, the journey. — Terry Goodkind

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. — Helen Rowland

For a poet reality is mysterious, imaginations are magical, and perceptions are magnificent. — Debasish Mridha

We all need a bit of self-delusion. It gets us over the difficult spots. - John Ralston Saul, On Equilibrium — John Ralston Saul

There's nothing to it," they all said in chorus, "if you have a magic staff." Then six of them cancelled themselves out and simply disappeared.
"But it's only a big pencil," the Humbug objected, tapping at it with his cane.
"True enough," agreed the Mathemagician; "but once you learn to use it, there's no end to what you can do. — Norton Juster

Nothingness is staring you in the face. Utter and permanent oblivion. You will cease to be. To be, Jack. The dier accepts this and dies. The killer, in theory, attempts to defeat his own death by killing others. He buys time, he buys life. - Murray (WN 291) — Don DeLillo

How you turn out depends on where you've been. So when it comes to thinking about blameworthiness, the first difficulty to consider is that people do not choose their own developmental path. — David Eagleman

Composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem