Galatoire Quotes & Sayings

It is possible to pull out justification for imposing your will on others, simply by calling your will God's will. — Ruth Hurmence Green

Everyone is so terrified of being labeled a racist. — Eli Roth

The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

People in New Orleans really care about food, care about it passionately, can spend hours arguing over whether Antoine's is better than Galatoire's or the other way around ... in New Orleans, there is basically nothing to do but eat and then argue about it. — Nora Ephron

I've never heard myself scream before. Not like this. — Alex Van Tol

You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it. — Tom Robbins

You know, we had problems like any other family, so I'm really similar to a lot of people out there. It's kind of why I feel like if a song is relatable to me, it's most likely gonna be something a lot of other people are gonna relate to. — Aaron Lines

I'm a sociopath, Mom, I don't love anybody. By definition.'
'Is that an implicit threat?'
'Oh, for the-! No, it was not a threat, Okay, I'm leaving. — Dan Wells

The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings. — Herbert Spencer

alfresco
the sommelier decants
a red sunset — Scott Mason

One can sniff the ozone from the pine trees, visit the local bars, eat crawfish, and drink Dixie beer and feel as good as it is possible to feel in this awfully interesting century. And now and then, drive across the lake to New Orleans, still an entrancing city, eat trout amandine at Galatoire's, drive home to my pleasant, uninteresting place, try to figure out how the world got into such a fix, shrug, take a drink, and listen to the frogs tune up. — Walker Percy

It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big — Charles Garfield

Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be. — Tanya Masse

What happens to the drop of wine
That you pour into the sea?
Does it remain itself, unchanged?
It is as if it never existed.
So it is with the soul: Love drinks it in,
It is united with Truth,
Its old nature fades away,
It is no longer master of itself.
The soul wills and yet does not will:
Its will belongs to Another.
It has eyes only for this beauty;
It no longer seeks to possess, as was its wont
It lacks the strength to possess such sweetness.
The base of this highest of peaks
Is founded on nichil,
Shaped nothingness, made one with the Lord. — Jacopone Da Todi