Hoofs Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Life's too short to be sat at home writing all the time. — Helen Hodgman

A shattered narrative is still a narrative. We can't escape it, it is what we are. — Jill Talbot

The life of the individual is a continuous combat with errors and obstacles, and no victory is more satisfying than the one achieved against opposition. — Gustav Stresemann

Things have to hit for the moment. That's one of the reasons I'm into video; the image has to hit immediately. I adore video and the whole cutting up of it. — David Bowie

Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces - and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake. — Lauren Oliver

In every bad situation we have to see Satan's motives behind a person's actions — Sunday Adelaja

Sweet is every sound, sweeter the voice, but every sound is sweet. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive. It's my belief, for what it's worth, that a lot of writers consign to the page what they think will meet with the approval, especially in the moral realm, of what their society has preached to them since they were children, almost all of which is utter bull####. — Thomas Ligotti

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' — Zig Ziglar

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little. — Camille Pissarro

Suck on this, Edward. — Dani Smith

Be not afraid, child. Be what you are. — Matthew Woodring Stover

But sometimes, unexpectedly, grief pounded over me in waves that left me gasping; and when the waves washed back, I found myself looking out over a brackish wreck which was illumined in a light so lucid, so heartsick and empty, that I could hardly remember that the world had ever been anything but dead. — Donna Tartt

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it. — Brad Pitt