Newcago Quotes & Sayings

Asian food is very easy to like because it hits your mouth very differently than European food does. In European food, there may be two things to hit - maybe sweet and salty, maybe salty-savory, but Asian kind of works around, plus you have that distinct flavor that's usually working in Asian food. — Tom Colicchio

Truth lies deep, and must be digged for. Since — William Gurnall

Great speed in reading is a dubious achievement; it is of value only if what you have to read is not worth reading. — Mortimer J. Adler

Plot does not simply move with time, but spreads out conceptually in metaphorical space. — John L'Heureux

I've heard people say that you have to tip-toe around a woman's emotions, but a man's ego is every bit as fragile, if not more so. — Trisha Wolfe

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray. — Edward McKendree Bounds

Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends. — Richard Powers

Daily toll on your willpower reserves can be reduced by setting clear and specific goals, making decisions in advance (every decision costs willpower), minimizing distraction and anticipating problems (and how to deal with them). — William D. Edwards

Downtown Newcago spread out before me, its surfaces reflecting starlight. Everything was steel here. Like a cyborg from the future with the skin ripped off. Only, you know, not murderous. Or, well, alive at all.
Man, I thought. I really do suck at metaphors. — Brandon Sanderson