Downtowner Woodfire Quotes & Sayings

Something that confirms all fears and many conspiracy theories about government is finding out what our elected representatives would put into law if they could. — P. J. O'Rourke

The Revolution had reached that classic mature stage where it existed only for its own sake. — Ben Fountain

Value is a perception not a calculation. Value is something people feel, not something we tell them they get — Simon Sinek

Directors are denied a great pleasure, which is that of being on stage. — Toni Servillo

Well, if I were you, I'd leave him. I'd find someone with a more normal way of looking at things and live happily ever after. There's no way in hell you can be happy with him. The way he lives, it never crosses his mind to try to make himself happy or to make others happy. Staying with him will only wreck your nervous system. To me, it's already a miracle that you've been with him three years. Of course, I'm very fond of him in my own way. He's fun, and he has lots of great qualities.
He has strengths and abilities that I could never hope to match. But in the end, his ideas about things and the way he lives his life are not normal. Sometimes, when I'm talking to him, I feel as if I'm going
around and around in circles. The same process that takes him higher and higher leaves me going around in circles. It makes me feel so empty! Finally, our very systems are totally different. Do you see what I'm saying? — Haruki Murakami

Ten years ago he would have followed her, but middle-age is the period of sad caution. — Graham Greene

It's a fact that people who are in a weakened position, whether physically or mentally, have this perception of the outer world as threatening. Everything that is unexpected or unknown is seen as a potential danger. — Michael Haneke

Maybe I'm naively romantic, but I do believe that spice and excitement doesn't stop once a couple gets together. — Stana Katic

The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects. — James Madison

While thinking about who you are and how you are alive is powerful; feeling who you are and how you are alive is even more powerful. — Jill Telford

The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were. — Arthur Helps