Monkeyshines Menu Quotes & Sayings

The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth. — Andres Segovia

A man who needs a mirror is looking for something. — Adriana Trigiani

Substitution ... the infinite cannot be made into matter, but it is possible to create an illusion of the infinite: the image. — Andrei Tarkovsky

It was a vast, luminous dream in which his whole life seemed to stretch out before him like a landscape on a summer evening after rain — George Orwell

Landlords - many of whom were absentee, and many were Chinese - hated my guts. They saw me coming and said, 'There's that Communist Ed Lee!'" The housing battles of the 1970s were the crucible for an entire generation of new activists in San Francisco. The city was a finite peninsula of competing dreams and ambitions. Was it to become a Manhattan of the West, whose office towers and high-rise apartment buildings overshadowed everything else, or remain an affordable, human-scale city of light nestled into the hills and hollows? — David Talbot

The Headlights lit the path we were traveling down, but only so far. After that, the world was dark and empty, full of possibility and uncertainty ... much like the paths of our own lives. — S.C. Stephens

Try to be inspired by something every day. Try to inspire at least one person every day. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

I hated motorcycles. I said to my mother, 'I'll never get a motorcycle.' And she said, 'You never know what you'll want when you are older.' After that, the thing that scared me was not so much the motorcycle itself, but that I could turn into a person who would want one. I was scared of the idea that I could become an entirely different person, a stranger to myself. — Ann Brashares