Masciarelli Pasta Quotes & Sayings

Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to Shakespeare; programmed by experience and imagination, Shakespeare gave rise to Hamlet. — Seth Lloyd

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect. — Reza Aslan

And somehow Hallie thrived anyway--the blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit trees that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees around it merely go on living. In Grace, in the old days, when people found one of those in their orchard they called it the semilla besada--the seed that got kissed. Sometimes you'd run across one that people had come to, and returned to, in hopes of a blessing. The branches would be festooned like a Christmas tree of family tokens: a baby sock, a pair of broken reading glasses, the window envelope of a pension check. — Barbara Kingsolver

I'm going to call you Rose, he says with resolution, working the back off an old clock. — Lauren DeStefano

Since divine truth and scripture clearly teach us that God, the Creator of all things, is Wisdom, a true philosopher will be a lover of God. That does not mean that all who answer to the name are really in love with genuine wisdom, for it is one thing to be and another to be called a philosopher. — Augustine Of Hippo

Bloodlines and last names didn't make a man extraordinary - the extraordinary existed in what we did in life, not in who we were. — Courtney Alameda

I don't know what to say. I hate that. I wish I had all the answers for you. I wish I could explain why this happened. — Katie Kacvinsky

When I first saw China, there were no automobiles. There were no supermarkets. There were no high-rise buildings. There were no consumer goods. There were no restaurants that were at least accessible that foreigners could see. It was a Stalinist society, and a very poor Stalinist society. So the economic system has totally changed, and the private sector in the economic system is now the dominant sector. It didn't exist at all as late as 1979. — Henry A. Kissinger

People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. — David Millar

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. — Alexander Payne

The dining room table in the home of a person living alone becomes the entire world, divided into countries: the area for the mail, for work if there is any, a small duchy set aside for the placement of one dish, one bowl, one fork. — Anna Quindlen