Kingbird Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

To make war you need three things: one, money; two, money; and three, money. — Megan Whalen Turner

From time to time, I would gaze up at the stars after a night shift and think that they looked like a glowing desert, and I myself was a poor child abandoned in the desert... I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe. The universe was an empty palace, and humankind the only ant in the entire palace. This kind of thinking infused the second half of my life with a conflicted mentality: Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile. Anyway, my life passed day after day accompanied by this strange feeling, and before I knew it, I was old... — Cixin Liu

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror! — John Adams

Love is scary. But not as scary as living without the one person who makes your life worth living. — Danielle Pearl

When we look at chimpanzees ... we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time. — Bob Waterston

Tram's road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It reminded him of that definition of his father's. A weapon is a device for making your enemy change his mind. The mind was the first and final battleground; the stuff in between was just noise. — Lois McMaster Bujold

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still. — Maya Angelou

regret with dignity and grace. — Dalai Lama XIV

Ira [Gershwin] was the shyest, most diffident boy we had ever known. In a class of Lower East Side rapscallions, his soft-spoken gentleness and low-keyed personality made him a lovable incongruity. He spoke in murmurs, hiding behind a pair of steel-rimmed spectacles. Ira had a kid brother who wore stiff high collars, shirts with cuffs and went out with girls. — Yip Harburg

Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer - which it definitely feels like when you're struggling to write regularly or can't seem to earn a living as a freelance writer - maybe you need to take a long-term perspective. — J.K. Rowling

That queen of secrecy, the violet. — John Keats

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle