Lorenas Mexican Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

The duty of a philosopher is clear. He must take every pain to ascertain the truth; and, having arrived at a conclusion, he should noise it abroad far and wide, utterly regardless of what opinions he shocks. — Henry Thomas Buckle

Like the librarians of Babel in Borges's story, who are looking for the book that will provide them with the key to all the others, we oscillate between the illusion of perfection and the vertigo of the unattainable. In the name of completeness, we would like to believe that a unique order exists that would enable us to accede in knowledge all in one go; in the name of the unattainable, we would like to think that order and disorder are in fact the same word, denoting pure chance.
It's possible also that both are decoys, illusions intended to disguise the erosion of both books and systems. It is no bad thing in any case that between the two our bookshelves should serve from time to time as joggers of the memory, as cat-rests and as lumber-rooms. — Georges Perec

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality. — Vivienne Westwood

When you're relegated to go from movie to movie, so much of what you're doing is out of your control beyond creating the product. — Kathleen Kennedy

I want that glib and oily art to speak and purpose not, since what I well intend, I'll do't before I speak. — William Shakespeare

If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all. — Burt Prelutsky

The first slave to read and write was the first to run away. — Henry Louis Gates