Floriana Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The well-meaning people who talk of education as if it were a substance distributable by coupon in large or small quantities never exhibit any understanding of the truth that you cannot teach anybody anything that he does not want to learn. — George Sampson

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do ... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed ... No task is too menial. — Elon Musk

People have always wanted to 'improve' human beings; for the most part, this has been called morality. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I would like to be famous but unknown. — Edgar Degas

You open a door and find a midget, and there's no way you can be in a bad mood. It's just not possible. — Tim Dorsey

A Christian making money fast is just a man in a cloud of dust, it will fill his eyes if he be not careful. — Charles Spurgeon

I teach in M.F.A. programs now, and I think that's a great way to become a novelist, but I mourn that Pete Dexter and Joan Didion's route is maybe less likely because there are fewer of those jobs. I always liken it to playing piano in some great dive jazz bar. You didn't pick the songs, you played what people asked for, but you got your chops. — Jess Walter

I've known ambitious people with no aptitude for the thing they did. Most of whom, rather terrifyingly, tended to succeed. — Neil Gaiman

Every new book we read in our brief and busy lives means that a classic is left unread. — B.R. Myers