Lannings Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary. — Henry Miller

What happens if the world we know changes today? Can we facebooking, tweeting, texting, shallow-thinking humans survive the slightest upheavel in our lives? — T.I. Wade

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little. — Michel Houellebecq

If you could find out what the most successful people did in any area and then you did the same thing over and over, you'd eventually get the same result they do. — Brian Tracy

I cannot sing, dance or act; what else would I be but a talk show host. — David Letterman

For this is how things are: the diminution and leveling of European man constitutes our greatest danger, for the sight of him makes us weary. - We can see nothing today that wants to grow greater, we suspect that things will continue to go down, down, to become thinner, more good-natured, more prudent, more comfortable, more mediocre, more indifferent, more Chinese, more Christian - there is no doubt that man is getting 'better' all the time. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The more you're challenged, the more rigidly you assert your beliefs. You have nothing to lose because without your beliefs you're nothing anyway: they make you what you are. It's shit or bust. — Sebastian Faulks

Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs. — Umberto Eco

No one knows how to hold a grudge like a proper Southerner. — Charles M. Blow

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable. — Laura Linney

I'm very bad at violence in real life. I can't stand it. And I'm so fed up with crime novels that have too much violence. I can't really do it. It's unnecessary. — David Lagercrantz

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness, — Dion Fortune

Do all your eating at a table. — Michael Pollan