Laconis Menu Quotes & Sayings

A black semiplume, the barbs striped deep red, crossed her palm. She lifted it to her face, and her breath trembled the afterfeather. A perfect copy of the plume still burned into her arm, first a curse, now the only thing she had to prove that he had ever touched her. — Anna-Marie McLemore

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it. — H.G.Wells

The chief modern rival of Christianity is 'liberalism' ... at every point, the two movements are in direct opposition. — John Gresham Machen

The number one advice I give to my students is to be a culture creator, not a culture consumer," he continued. "You have to have time to create, and to create, you have to get rid of those things that steal your time. TV is the great time-stealer in American life. — Rod Dreher

At the end of the day, there's probably nothing that makes me feel better than junk food and reality TV. — Jennifer Lawrence

I named my album Year of the Gentleman. Just looking at how the essence of what it is to be a gentleman is very much lacking nowadays. Someone said to me that chivalry is dead, and I hated to have to agree, but it's true. — Ne-Yo

If there is possbility of the ability, I will choose flexibility. — Deyth Banger

I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards. — Elayne Boosler

You need to remember that. If you're to have decent lives, you have to know who you are and what lies ahead of you, every one of you. — Kazuo Ishiguro

But if I did read, say, [Maurice] Merleau-Ponty, for instance, it always seemed to me that the parts that I understood in what he was talking about - and I read him because - well, he wrote a book, well, the Phenomenology of Perception [New York: Humanities Press, 1962]. And it seemed to me that perception had a lot do with how we take in art. — Robert Barry

My skepticism is not based on religious belief, or on a belief in any definite alternative. It is just a belief that the available scientific evidence, in spite of the consensus of scientific opinion, does not in this matter rationally require us to subordinate the incredulity of common sense. That is especially true with regard to the origin of life. — Thomas Nagel

Children and teens need to explore the dark side as a healthy part of growing. If a child is protected from everything dreadful, he will have no coping mechanisms in place when finally confronted with disaster. — Annette Curtis Klause