Luso Restaurant Quotes & Sayings

There is no talent so useful toward rising in the world, or which puts men more out of the reach of fortune, than that quality generally possessed by the dullest sort of men, and in common speech called discretion; a species of lower prudence, by the assistance of which, people of the meanest intellectuals, without any other qualification, pass through the world in great tranquillity, and with universal good treatment, neither giving nor taking offence. — Jonathan Swift

The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited and antithetical to real human development could not long survive contact with situations in which those virtues were entirely absent; and a rejection of everything associated with one's childhood is not so much an escape from that childhood as an imprisonment by it. — Theodore Dalrymple

I'm a true opera buff. Operas make the best stories. — Andrea Davis Pinkney

I'm president of the Senate. I'm not a neophyte when it comes to understanding political alignments and misalignments. — Colleen Hanabusa

I wanna better understand the world I live in, and I wanna be able to learn how to be more effective. I wanna learn and I wanna listen. — Angelina Jolie

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself. — David Tudor

My wife has to be the worst cook. I don't believe meatloaf should glow in the dark — Rodney Dangerfield

Again, Saburo Tominaga once went to the Shirakawa Prefectural Office to cash his brother Morikuni's bonus bond and, unwilling to touch paper currency defiled with a foreign-style design, carried it home between chopsticks. — Yukio Mishima

When you use any kind of internet based capability, any kind of electronic capability, to cause damage to a private entity or a foreign nation or a foreign actor, these are potential acts of war. — Edward Snowden

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do. — Evelyn Ashford