Florestanos Bakery Quotes & Sayings

Most people don't want to leave their wife and children behind but many people seem to want to take leave of themselves. — Greg Behrendt

And yet now that we were seventeen the substance of time itself no longer seemed fluid but had assumed a gluelike consistency and churned around us like a yellow cream in a confectioner's machine. — Elena Ferrante

I despair of ever writing excellent poetry. — Isaac Rosenberg

Poverty and desperation are the parents of ambition. (character Norm Woodruff) — Phil Valentine

It is well known, that the best productions of the best human intellects, are generally regarded by those intellects as mere immature freshman exercises, wholly worthless in themselves, except as initiatives for entering the great University of God after death. — Herman Melville

Turns out, people's brains are not nearly as powerful a motivator as our hearts. Facts, data, and economic models don't move people to courageous action the way that powerful stories can. — Annie Leonard

I find it kind of funny. I find it kind of sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had. — Tears For Fears

Is something wrong?" Ivey asked. Lillian picked up a file, stared at it, and put it back down. "You could say that. This morning I found an orderly and a nurse in a closet, and they weren't looking for supplies. Dr. Harrison has taken an ill-timed vacation, since his wife threatened that if he didn't come along she'd go by herself and not come back. So I'm short staffed again. And then there's this desk. Who ever heard of a desk without drawers? It's beautiful, but why do I feel like I'm Uhura on Star Trek? I'd like to strangle the designer. — Heatherly Bell

Oh, Karamazov, I am profoundly unhappy. I sometimes fancy all sorts of things, that every one is laughing at me, the whole world, and then I feel ready to overturn the whole order of things. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Better than a thousand meaningless statements Is one meaningful word, Which, having been heard, Brings peace. — Gil Fronsdal

Death is the ultimate weapon of the tyrant; resurrection does not make a covenant with death, it overthrows it. — N. T. Wright