Gibbens Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation. — Pam Houston

She taught me so much, she said to herself. She built me as we were walking around after the sheep, and she told me all those things that I needed to know, and the first thing was to look after people. Of course, the other thing had been to look after the sheep. — Terry Pratchett

I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air. — Esther Williams

Dommes didn't react; they just walked away. — Sarah Michelle Lynch

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised ... Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein. — Lincoln Steffens

A treasure isn't meant for everyone, just the one who has taken the time and done the work to discover it. — Chad Eastham

The worst kind of idiot is the one who doesn't think they're an idiot. — Jeff Garlin

Much has been said of the aesthetic values of chanoyu- the love of the subdued and austere- most commonly characterized by the term, wabi. Wabi originally suggested an atmosphere of desolation, both in the sense of solitariness and in the sense of the poverty of things. In the long history of various Japanese arts, the sense of wabi gradually came to take on a positive meaning to be recognized for its profound religious sense ... the related term, sabi, ... It was mid-winter, and the water's surface was covered with the withered leaves of the of the lotuses. Suddenly I realized that the flowers had not simply dried up, but that they embodied, in their decomposition, the fullness of life that would emerge again in their natural beauty. — Okakura Kakuzo

Life never was intended to be easy. Rather, it is a period of proving and growth. It is interwoven with difficulties, challenges, and burdens. We are immersed in a sea of persistent, worldly pressures that could destroy our happiness. Yet these very forces, if squarely faced, provide opportunity for tremendous personal growth and development. The conquering of adversity produces strength of character, forges self-confidence, engenders self-respect, and assures success in righteous endeavor. — Richard G. Scott

You don't drive an economy by consuming - the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose. — Peter Schiff

In order to truly give to others, you have to give to yourself first. — Ali Vincent

Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes. — Jawaharlal Nehru

I don't like labels. I don't understand the need for them. When you define yourself a certain way, people have expectations. — Eddie Huang

Everybody wants to feel special and loved. But you sort of need to feel like you've earned it. — L.T. Vargus

We attempted to try to solve every problem in the world, out of a sense of moral obligations, and attitudes, and our history. But no country can solve every problem without exhausting itself. Therefore, we have to establish priorities. — Henry A. Kissinger