Fornaio Owner Quotes & Sayings

If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy. — Dustin Hoffman

Often during our journey I heard William mention "the simple," a term by which some of his brothers denoted not only the populace but, at the same time, the unlearned. This expression always seemed to me generic, because in the Italian cities I had met men of trade and artisans who were not clerics but were not unlearned, even if their knowledge was revealed through the use of the vernacular. And, for that matter, some of the tyrants who governed the peninsula at that time were ignorant of theological learning, and medical, and logical, and ignorant of Latin, but they were surely not simple or benighted. So I believe that even my master, when he spoke of the simple, was using a rather simple concept. But unquestionably Salvatore was simple. — Umberto Eco

I don't think good and evil are polarized. — Sam Mendes

There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets 'things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns 'my' and 'mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution. — A.W. Tozer

I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life. — Carlos Miele

The snow again. White, white net of beauty, net of dream, trapping the earth, trapping the helpless heart of life ... — Martha Ostenso

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance. — Kevin Bacon

One Nice Guy asked me, If a man is talking in the forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong? — Robert Glover

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. — Tom Robbins

A separate peace, Mrs. Cameron, is so declared. Now, let's go to see to young Master John Daniel Cameron." "John Daniel Cameron?" she queried. "Do you like it?" he asked. She leaned back in his arms, delighted, secure. "I love it," she assured him, and she curled her arms around his neck. "Just as I love his father! — Heather Graham