Lloyd Cafe Cadena Quotes & Sayings

No one would want to pay a penny for an empty canvas by me. But it would be quite another if the empty canvas were signed by a great artist. I would be surprised if an empty canvas by Picasso or Matisse signed and inscribed with the words, 'I wanted to paint such and such on this canvas, but did not do so,' would not fetch thousands ... After all, with an empty canvas, the possibilities are limitless, and so perhaps is the cash. — Semir Zeki

What are you going to do, Luca?' I clenched my fists at my sides. 'Pull a gun on me?'
'If that's what it takes.'
'How brave!' I exploded. We were so close to one another now. 'You can't use your words. but you're more than happy to use your gun.'
'I'm not going to be responsible for ruining your innocence!'
I tilted my face towards him to show I wasn't afraid, or as innocent as he clearly thought. 'Go ahead,' I whispered. 'Shatter it.' We were nose to nose. 'It almost worked last time, when you told me about my dad.'
'I don't care,' he replied resolutely. 'I'm not punching Bambi in the face. — Catherine Doyle

Try to see the joyful side of life. One must see the pain of life with clear eyes, and help all he can; but there is also lots of joy, and on should see that, too. — Norman Vincent Peale

There's no greater sign of being a poor philosopher and wise man than wanting all of life to be wise and philosophical. — Giacomo Leopardi

Self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn't matter; it may be worthwhile or it may be worthless. No wine is so intoxicating, no love so shattering, no vice so compelling. When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself? At best he can only sacrifice his only begotten son. — W. Somerset Maugham

I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian. — Stanley Hauerwas

Einstein said, "God doesn't play dice with the universe." 22 He was right. As Phillip Gold said, "God plays Scrabble! — Norman L. Geisler

People thought becoming an adult meant that all your acts had consequences; in fact it was just the opposite. — Chad Harbach

I loved ninjas when I was younger. — Rain

I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there. — Jeremy Piven

I couldn't put my hand on my heart and say I think that being in a relationship is a natural state for a human being. — Hugh Grant

[When asked how someone 6'3 had dared take up golf:] I was too tall to make the chess team in my high school, so I tried golf. — Carol Mann

We were living in a tumultuous time, when the world was upside down. Freeman produced a show that was black and white, the good guys versus the bad guys. — James MacArthur

He leaned back a little, not taking his arm from around me, but looking into my eyes.
You're changing, Zoey. And I'm not sure what you're changing into. — P.C. Cast