La Trattoria Quotes & Sayings

I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

I'm always happy when I'm cleaning, and besides, I had just found out that I was going to have a baby. — Peggy Lee

Vegetables cooked for salads should always be on the crisp side, like those trays of zucchini and slender green beans and cauliflowerets in every trattoria in Venice, in the days when the Italians could eat correctly. You used to choose the things you wanted: there were tiny potatoes in their skins, remember, and artichokes boiled in olive oil, as big as your thumb, and much tenderer ... and then the waiter would throw them all into an ugly white bowl and splash a little oil and vinegar over them, and you would have a salad as fresh and tonic to your several senses as La Primavera. It can still be done, although never in the same typhoidic and enraptured air. You can still find little fresh vegetables, and still know how to cook them until they are not quite done, and chill them, and eat them in a bowl. — Mary Francis Kennedy Fisher

His temper might perhaps be a little soured [ ... ]'Mr. Palmer is just the kind of man I like, — Jane Austen

Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana

It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes. — J.D. Salinger

Everything that has happened had to happen. Everything that must happen cannot be stopped. — Wayne Dyer

And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape. — Thomas Hardy

Beckett Rush spotted in London Saturday. 'Tinseltown's It Boy reportedly had three dates with three different girls at La Trattoria ... all over the course of six hours. Two ladies discovered the duplicity, and catfight broke out. Taylor Risdale broke up the fight before storming out. Beckett's camp could not be reached at the moment.'" Mr. Rush laughed. "You know what this means, right?"
"That once again my name is trashed."
"That your DVD sales will spike at least 5 percent. — Jenny B. Jones

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger. — Andrew Garfield