Lhirondelle Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

And doing so you can recreate yourself and you can also come up with something that is not only original and creative and artistic, but also maybe even decent, or moral if I can use words like that, or something that's like basically good. — Lester Bangs

You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. Wherever you have turned, James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do (and how you could do it) and where you could live and whom you could marry. I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this, and I hear them saying "You exaggerate." They do not know Harlem, and I do. So do you. Take no one's word for anything, including mine- but trust your experience. Know whence you came. — James Baldwin

The rule is simple: People with integrity are predisposed to perform; people without integrity are predisposed not to perform. It is best not to get the two confused. — Mary Buffett

I said to him one day that the very slender reward which God had attached to the pursuit of serious inquiry was a sufficient proof that He disapproved of it, or at any rate that he did not set much store by it nor wish to encourage it. — Samuel Butler

Um, we don't hit women in America." He scowled, and spit out an apple seed. "No. Americans just persecute smaller countries that believe different from them. — Donna Tartt

I think that it's fun to get the script and open it like a Christmas present. That's 'Alcatraz' or anything that I'm working on. If the groundwork has been laid too much, the surprises aren't there. — Jeffrey Pierce

There are people who are not wealthy because they want to be comfortable. — Robert Kiyosaki

The result is that children now live in an "ethos of fantasy consumerism." Modern American childhood, says Cross, — Morris Berman

Life is a hurdle and you'll never clear it. Death is the end of the ride and you fear it. — Henry Rollins

Honesty is very sexy. — Valerie Bertinelli

Am I such a slave as that? Dependent on a man to complete me! I thought I couldn't be anything without him- I can be my own creator! — Nan Shepherd

Partying and dancing have never been my thing, but drinking I could do with reasonable familiarity and skills. I decided to begin there. — Vann Chow

Ray Leonard is more the family man, kind of quiet. He's not as outgoing as Sugar Ray Leonard. Sugar Ray Leonard was very determined, very focused, very outgoing and very selfish, if you will. There are two different individuals there. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Sincerity is the foundation of the spiritual life. — Albert Schweitzer

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale. — Robert Burns